TWO IRISH AUTHORS have been named in the longlist for the prestigious Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Two of the featured names on the longlist are Lisa McInerney – who has previously written for TheJournal.ie – and Irish Laureate for fiction Anne Enright.
The full longlist, which can be read here, also features Hanya Yanagihara for the much-talked-about A Little Life, and the award-winning Kate Atkinson for A God in Ruins.
McInerney’s novel The Glorious Heresies follows what happens when a man is accidentally murdered in Cork. Taking in multiple characters, it is full of deliciously salty language and on-point observations of post-recession Ireland.
Enright’s latest novel, The Green Road, takes in the fortunes of a family from the west of Ireland. Like her Booker Prize-winning novel The Gathering, it explores the changes in Irish society through the actions of its characters.
The announcement of the longlist fittingly comes on International Women’s Day.
2015 was a particularly strong year for Irish women writers, with a slew of emerging writers, such as McInerney and Sara Baume, coming to acclaim.
In related news, earlier this week editor Sinead Gleeson announced the follow-up to her Irish Book Awards-winning collection The Long Gaze Back will be followed by The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland, due this autumn.
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