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Caitriona Lally

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Caitriona Lally’s debut novel, Eggshells, was shortlisted for the Newcomer of the Year Award at the 2015 Irish Book Awards and the 2016 Kate O’Brien Debut Novel Award. She is the 2018 winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Caitriona lives in Dublin with her young family and works as a cleaner in Trinity College Dublin.

Prizes, Awards & Fellowships
  • 2019 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction