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Victoria Gallery & Museum, Ashton Street, Liverpool, L69 3DR
Buy Tickets Visit WebsiteThe Institute of Irish Studies is delighted to announce that the Annual John McGahern Prize has been awarded to Louise Kennedy for her collection of short stories, The End of the World is a Cul de Sac.
Victoria Gallery & Museum, Ashton Street, Liverpool, L69 3DR
Buy Tickets Visit WebsitePlease join us for a special reading by Louise Kennedy as part of the Liverpool Literary Festival, which is hosted by the University of Liverpool on the weekend of 7-9 October 2022, please see above for the registration link and further details.
Colm Tóibín, Chancellor of the University of Liverpool and one of Ireland’s most esteemed writers, judged The End of the World is a Cul de Sac (Bloomsbury, 2021) as the winner, remarking that the stories in the collection are “are beautifully crafted, wry in tone, often bleak” and he commended Kennedy’s “ability to match painful and difficult truth with wit and sharp humour.”