Lisa McInerney
Lisa McInerney is an Irish novelist, short story writer, and original blogger. She is best known for some novels which won literary awards.Biography
McInerney graduated at University College Cork and Yonsei University. Before getting a foothold in becoming a writer, her mission from early on, she started 2006 the blog Arse End of Ireland which acquired renown for word power. Her debut novel, The Glorious Heresies, was published in April 2015 and won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Desmond Elliott Prize in 2016. It sold licences for being translated to Spain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Denmark and Italy. Also the filming rights were bought by the London based film production company Fifty Fathoms. Her second novel, The Blood Miracles, received the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award in 2018.
In an interview she said that Hubert Selby Jr. has been an influence on her attitude towards writing. Her "big characters" and juicy wording resulted in comparisons with Patrick McCabe and Irvine Welsh.
