Lisa McInerney | |
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| Born | Lisa McInerney (1981-08-15)15 August 1981 (age 44) Gort, Galway,Ireland |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Alma mater | University College Cork |
| Genre | Fiction,short stories |
| Notable works | The Glorious Heresies(2015) The Blood Miracles |
| Notable awards | Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction Desmond Elliott Prize Encore Award |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | |
| www.lisamcinerney.com | |
Lisa McInerney is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, editor and screenwriter. She is best known for her novel,The Glorious Heresies, which was the 2016 winner of theBaileys Women's Prize for Fiction.
McInerney was born into a working-class family[1] inGalway, Ireland in 1981 and raised by her grandparents. She attendedGort Community School and went on to study English and geography[2] atUniversity College Cork. She is the daughter-in-law of Irish journalistGeraldine McInerney.
McInerney's first publication was a short story, "Saturday, Boring", commissioned byKevin Barry for the 2013Faber & Faber anthology,Town and Country: New Irish Short Stories.
McInerney's short work has featured inWinter Papers,Extra Teeth,The Guardian,Le Monde,Granta,BBC Radio 4 and in various anthologies. In 2022 she was appointed editor of the Irish literary magazineThe Stinging Fly.
McInerney'sdebut novel,The Glorious Heresies, published byJohn Murray, followed in April 2015. Telling the story of five misfits on the fringes of Ireland's post-crash society whose lives interconnect after a messy murder, it won theBaileys Women's Prize for Fiction and theDesmond Elliott Prize in 2016. It has been translated into French, in which it won the 2018 Ireland Francophonie Ambassadors' Literary Award; Italian, in which it was shortlisted for theStrega European Prize and won the Premio Edoardo Kihlgren[3] for European literature; Spanish, Dutch, German, Czech, Serbian, Polish, Danish and Macedonian.
McInerney's second novel,The Blood Miracles, was published by John Murray in April 2017. Focusing on Ryan Cusack, the youngest character fromThe Glorious Heresies, it was joint winner of the 2018RSL'sEncore Award and was longlisted for the 2018Dylan Thomas Prize. It has been translated into Spanish, French, Italian, Czech, German and Danish.
McInerney's third novel,The Rules of Revelation, was published by John Murray in May, 2021.
The rights to adapt McInerney's Cork City set (The Glorious Heresies,The Blood Miracles andThe Rules of Revelation) for television were bought byITV Studios, with McInerney contracted to write the screenplays.
She has namedHubert Selby Jr. as an influence on her attitude towards writing.[4] Her "big characters" and juicy wording have resulted in comparisons withPatrick McCabe andIrvine Welsh.[5]
