![]() ![]() ![]() Though only suggesting the possibility of future greatness with Grace, Lynch has given us poignant glimpses of the human body's limits, that peculiar messiness of identity, and what happens when parts of a society fail to help, or even acknowledge, those in need." "Unlike the 'novelese' favoured by too many contemporary writers, these are sentences worth reading slowly. Adjudicators Jane Urquhart and Alex Preston chose it from a shortlist that included Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends Bernard MacLaverty's Midwinter Break Lisa Harding's Harvesting and Frank McGuinness's The Woodcutter and His Family.Ĭharles Shafaieh, reviewing for The Irish Times, called it "haunting and poetic". ![]() Paul Lynch has won the €15,000 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2017 for his Famine novel, Grace, at the opening night of Listowel Writers' Week in Kerry. ![]()
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