Megan Nolan | |
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Born | 1990 (age 33–34) County Waterford, Ireland |
Occupation | Journalist, novelist |
Notable works | Acts of Desperation (2021) |
Megan Nolan (born 1990) [1] is an Irish journalist, and author from County Waterford. Her debut novel, Acts of Desperation, [2] was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize [3] and was one of the four awardees of the 2022 Betty Trask Award for debut novels.
Nolan's father Jim Nolan was a theatre director and founder of the Red Kettle theatre company based in Waterford. [4] [5] She studied film studies and French at Trinity College Dublin, but dropped out before completion of her studies. [6] [5]
She has written essays and literary criticism for the New Statesman. [2] In 2018, she wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times that detailed how she had come to hate England and English people. [7] She subsequently moved from London to New York City.
Acts of Desperation was a Betty Trask Awardee for debut novels in 2022. [8] Ordinary Human Failings was shortlisted for the 2023 Gordon Burn Prize for "books that push boundaries, cross genres or otherwise challenge readers’ expectations", [9] [10] as well as for the 2024 Encore Award, given by the Royal Society of Literature to celebrate the "difficult second novel" that follows an author's literary debut. [11]
Year | Work | Award | Result | Ref | |
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2021 | Acts of Desperation | Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award | — | Shortlisted | [12] |
2022 | — | Won | [13] | ||
Dylan Thomas Prize | — | Longlisted | [14] | ||
2023 | Ordinary Human Failings | Gordon Burn Prize | Shortlisted | [15] | |
Nero | Fiction | Shortlisted | [16] | ||
2024 | Orwell Prize for Political Fiction | Shortlisted | [17] |
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Megan Nolan | |
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Born | 1990 (age 33–34) County Waterford, Ireland |
Occupation | Journalist, novelist |
Notable works | Acts of Desperation (2021) |
Megan Nolan (born 1990) [1] is an Irish journalist, and author from County Waterford. Her debut novel, Acts of Desperation, [2] was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize [3] and was one of the four awardees of the 2022 Betty Trask Award for debut novels.
Nolan's father Jim Nolan was a theatre director and founder of the Red Kettle theatre company based in Waterford. [4] [5] She studied film studies and French at Trinity College Dublin, but dropped out before completion of her studies. [6] [5]
She has written essays and literary criticism for the New Statesman. [2] In 2018, she wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times that detailed how she had come to hate England and English people. [7] She subsequently moved from London to New York City.
Acts of Desperation was a Betty Trask Awardee for debut novels in 2022. [8] Ordinary Human Failings was shortlisted for the 2023 Gordon Burn Prize for "books that push boundaries, cross genres or otherwise challenge readers’ expectations", [9] [10] as well as for the 2024 Encore Award, given by the Royal Society of Literature to celebrate the "difficult second novel" that follows an author's literary debut. [11]
Year | Work | Award | Result | Ref | |
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2021 | Acts of Desperation | Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award | — | Shortlisted | [12] |
2022 | — | Won | [13] | ||
Dylan Thomas Prize | — | Longlisted | [14] | ||
2023 | Ordinary Human Failings | Gordon Burn Prize | Shortlisted | [15] | |
Nero | Fiction | Shortlisted | [16] | ||
2024 | Orwell Prize for Political Fiction | Shortlisted | [17] |
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