Conversation with Irish Writer in Residence Michael Magee

Описание: On November 20, 2025-26 Writer-in-Residence Michael Magee delivered a reading from his novel Close to Home and joined Prof. Clíona Ní Riordáin for a conversation on the novel and his writing career. This even was co-sponsored by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, the English Department, and the Creative Writing Program.

Michael Magee is from Belfast. His debut novel, Close to Home, was published by Hamish Hamilton (UK) and FSG (US). It won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the John McGahern Prize, and the Nero Award for Debut Fiction. It was also named Waterstones Irish Book of the Year and has been translated into eight languages, including French, German, and Spanish.

Magee was also shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Newcomer of the Year 2023, and The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. Close to Home was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2023, the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, and the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. It was also longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Diverse Book Awards.

He is the inaugural Irish Writer-in-Residence at the University of Notre Dame.