Liz Nugent

Liz Nugent is an Irish novelist, born in Dublin in 1967.

Early life

Liz Nugent attended Holy Child Killiney, in County Dublin. At the age of six she suffered a brain injury which left her with dystonia. After leaving school she moved to London for a time.[1]

After her return to Ireland she enrolled in an acting course at the Gaiety Theatre, but soon switched to stage management. She toured the world with Riverdance in a stage management role and later worked in an administrative role for RTÉ on the soap Fair City.[2]

During her time at RTÉ she was commissioned to write a five-part animation series for TG4 and also wrote a full-length radio play. She subsequently won a European Broadcasting Union competition for a TV pilot.[1]

Writing career

Her first novel began life as a short story called Alice which made the shortlist of the RTÉ Francis McManus Short Story Competition in 2006.[1]

Further exploration into the main character produced her first best-selling novel Unravelling Oliver (Penguin Ireland) which won the Ireland AM Crime Fiction Award at the Bord Gáis Irish Book Awards in 2014.[3] It was published by Scout Press (Simon & Schuster) in the US in August 2017.[4] This debut novel was longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Award (formerly the IMPAC) 2016.[5]

Her second novel Lying In Wait won the Ryan Tubridy Listeners' Choice Award at the Irish Book Awards in 2016[6] and was published in the US in June 2018. It was also longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Award in 2018.[7]

Her third novel Skin Deep was published in April 2018.[8] This won two An Post Irish Book Awards: Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year and RTÉ Radio 1's The Ryan Tubridy Show Listeners’ Choice Award.[9] This novel also made the longlist for the Dublin International Literary Award in 2020 [10] She also won the Cancel All Plans for the Book You Can't Put Down Award on Dead Good Books at the Harrogate Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in 2019.[11]

Her fourth novel Our Little Cruelties was published in March 2020.[12]

In 2016, she was awarded the Ireland Funds Monaco Bursary to be the Writer-in-Residence at The Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco[13] and was also Writer-In-Residence in the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris[14] in April 2019.

She was awarded the Woman of the Year Award for Literature 2017.[15]

She lives in Dublin with her husband.

gollark: If you just use a normal RNG thing, you could do evil and bias the raffle and nobody would be able to check.
gollark: That solves exactly zero (0) of the problems.
gollark: ···········
gollark: You'd have to adapt it then, æ.
gollark: ... wait, no, it runs on a bet or something, hm.

References
  1. "Dystonia didn't stop me becoming a writer, 22 March 2014". www.irishindependent.ie. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  2. "Liz Nugent: "People have accused me of being brave, but what is namebrave about surviving?"". www.irishtimes.com. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  3. "An Post Irish Book Awards » Unravelling Oliver".
  4. "Liz Nugent inks six-figure deal with major US publisher". September 14, 2016 – via www.rte.ie. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. "Unravelling Oliver – International DUBLIN Literary Award".
  6. O'Loughlin, Writing ie Editor Vanessa (November 17, 2016). "Irish Books Awards Winners 2016!". Writing.ie.
  7. "Lying in Wait – International DUBLIN Literary Award".
  8. Hughes, Declan (2018-04-07). "Skin Deep review: dark monster of a book about beauty and identity". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2018-06-14.
  9. "An Post Irish Book Awards » Winners of The An Post Irish Book Awards 2018 Revealed".
  10. "Skin Deep – International DUBLIN Literary Award".
  11. "The Dead Good Reader Awards 2019". Dead Good. July 19, 2019.
  12. Mullin, Kristoffer. "Our Little Cruelties, by Liz Nugent review" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  13. The Ireland Funds Monaco Residential Bursaries: Liz Nugent
  14. "Literature | Previous Residents | Artists in Residence". www.centreculturelirlandais.com.
  15. "Irish Tatler Women of the Year Awards 2017". Irish Tatler.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.