Lisa McInerney

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Lisa McInerney (born 1981 in County Galway ) is an Irish writer.

Life

Lisa McInerney grew up with her grandmother in Gort . When she was seventeen, she began studying at University College Cork . In 2006, when a large number of blogs emerged, she started her own blog called Ass End of Ireland in order to create a platform for her way into the literary scene. Writer Kevin Barry encouraged her to write short stories in addition to her blog .

She published her first novel, The Glorious Heresies , in 2015 . In 2016 he received the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Desmond Elliott Prize for debut novels. A German version of the novel was published in June 2018 under the title Glorreich Ketzereien . The story, in the style of a humorous crime thriller, but essentially without police investigators, is about the entanglements that the intended secret disposal of the body of a slain young burglar entails. The Catholic Church of Ireland and the double moral standards traditionally associated with it, as well as swearing, play a certain role, as the book title The Glorious Heresies alludes to. In September 2016 it was announced that the book would be converted into a television series. The London production company Fifty Fathoms acquired the rights for it. McInerny himself is to deliver the script, Julian Farino has been chosen as director .

Her second novel The Blood Miracles , which is partly about the same protagonists in the city of Cork , won an Encore Award in 2018 . The author had to share the £ 10,000 prize money with novelist Andrew Michael Hurley, who was also being awarded for his second novel, Devil's Day .

In an interview with the Guardian, the author named her literary influences: "As a kid Melvyn Burgess . As an adult, Hubert Selby Jr. ". Selby writes about marginal existence, stamina and the darker sides of reality, but does so with a lot of love and empathy for his characters, which is rarely found in literature. The large number of literary magazines and journals in the country, some of which are run by women as well as small independent publishers, is helpful for the current surge of female writers in Ireland.

McInerney lives in Galway with her daughter.

stylistics

Even as a blogger, McInerney stood out for her powerful, juicy choice of words. The national daily newspaper The Irish Times called her “the most talented writer at work today in Ireland”. The publishing editor Mark Richards, responsible for them at the publishing house John Murray, found the "energy" of their manuscript as extraordinary as their powerful character drawings, so that the characters could not get out of their heads. He compared her to Patrick McCabe and Irvine Welsh .

Works (selection)

Novels
Short stories
  • Saturday, Boring , In: Kevin Barry (Ed.): Faber's Town and Country anthology of new Irish short stories 2013

literature

  • Boyd Tonkin: Shenanigans and the City . Interview, in: Financial Times , May 6, 2017, p. 13

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lisa McInerney: 'I've known people who've done appalling things' , Interview with L. McInerney in The Guardian of April 16, 2017, accessed May 17, 2019
  2. ↑ Alison Flood: Lisa McInerney's 'astounding' debut novel wins Desmond Elliott prize , in: The Guardian , June 22, 2016
  3. ↑ Liebeskind: Glorious Heresies
  4. ^ "And ghosts live in the houses" , Frankfurter Rundschau of August 7, 2018, accessed May 17, 2019
  5. ^ Film and television production company, set up in 2010 , accessed May 18, 2019
  6. ↑ a b c The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney to be made into TV series , The Irish Times, September 8, 2016, accessed May 18, 2019
  7. ↑ Lisa McInerney is joint winner of £ 10,000 Encore Award for 'The Blood Miracles' , The Irish Times, May 10, 2018, accessed May 17, 2019
personal data
SURNAME McInerney, Lisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH County Galway