NUALA O'CONNOR

Tag: Awards

  • Winner – Irish Short Story of the Year

    I was genuinely delighted to win Short Story of the Year at the Irish Book Awards for my story This Small Giddy Life about two daughters and their wandering, wonderful mother who gets dementia. My own mother is living with this curious condition, so it is a close-to-my-heart story. You can read the story in…

  • Bloomsweek events 2022

    I have a raft of events for Bloomsweek. I’d love to see some of ye out and about across the week in Dublin: June 11th, 2.30pm – speaking at opening of Ulysses Imagined exhib, Graphic Studio Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin. More here. June 11th, 6.20pm IFI – premiere of BBC Arena documentary, James Joyce’s Ulysses. I’m part…

  • NORA – TWO SHORTLISTINGS

    While I’ve been busy with One Dublin One Book, NORA has been shortlisted for two awards which, obviously, is thrilling. Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year at Listowel and Irish Novel of the Year at the Dalkey Literary Awards. How is that for fancy? Delighted!! I’ll be taking part at events at both festivals…

  • NORA SHORTLISTED IRISH BOOK AWARDS

    I’m delighted that Seán Rocks and the Arena crew have nominated NORA in the RTÉ Audience Choice Award at the An Post Irish Book Awards. As a big Arena fan, this is such an honour. I’m also honoured that NORA is the only novel on the shortlist. You can vote here.

  • 2019

    James Joyce Quarterly Fiction Contest. (Winner)

  • 2018

    2018 Short Fiction Prize – (Winner) writing.ie Short Story of the Year 2018 – (Shortlist)

  • 2017

    International Dublin Literary Award 2017 – (Long-listed) WRITING.IE Short Story of the Year 2017 – (Short-listed)

  • 2016

    M.M. Bennetts Award for Historical Fiction 2016 – (Long-listed)

  • 2015

    The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2015 – (Shortlisted) Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 2015 – (Shortlisted)

  • 2014

    Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition – (Shortlisted)