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Sligo based author Alice Lyons has been shortlisted for the Kate O Brien award at the upcoming Limerick Literary Festival for her novel Oona.
The award-winning poet s first novel gives voice to a female character on her fraught journey into adulthood and charts her evolution as an artist. Her adolescent numbness is thawed through contact with the physical world, the materials of painting and her engagement with Irish community, culture and landscape.
From 1970s East Coast America to rural Ireland amidst the transformative awkwardness of the Celtic Tiger, Oona is a resonant story conveyed in the innovative form of a Lipogram. Aside from the title, the novel is composed without use of the letter O , the tone of the book reflects Oona s inner damage and the destruction caused by hiding, omitting and obliterating parts of ourselves
Six shortlisted for Kate O’Brien Award for a debut novel
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Six entires have been shortlisted for the 6th annual Kate O’Brien Award for a debut novel from an Irish female author.
The Award will be presented as part of the 37th annual Limerick Literary Festival in Honour of Kate O’Brien in February 2021. It is one of Ireland s most vibrant and successful festivals which has been running since 1984 and it showcases in a diverse and eclectic programme the best in Irish and international contemporary literature.
The Festival takes place online from February 26 to 28 and will be broadcast from Limerick City. The event continues to honour the life and works of the Limerick author, while attracting prominent participants from all over the world.