Novelist Niamh Campbell: ‘The Dublin of 2015 was so full of optimism. Bit by bit it got harder to stay’
The award-winning author – whose new novel Make Strange is out now – on motherhood, publishing and making a living from fiction
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We Were Young by Niamh Campbell: Admirable novel stops short of transcendence
Author writes breathtaking imagery, but her protagonist remains lost in a world of surfaces
Niamh Campbell: ‘I do think life, for everybody, is a private hallucination’
Winner of the Rooney Prize and Sunday Times short story award on her new novel, We Were Young
Niamh Campbell awarded 2021 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
Author of acclaimed debut This Happy won Sunday Times short story award in 2020
95 things to look forward to: Matches, movies, plays, pints, pals
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Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2021: Two first-time novelists on shortlist
Debut novels among five that make final cut for €15,000 award at Listowel Writers’ Week
Niamh Campbell: I write because I want to be seen, and heard, and responded to
UCD’s writer in residence on her free online series of conversations with fellow artists
Pizza Girl: A sharp shock of a novel
Jean Kyoung Frazier’s debut is a blistering base with all the toppings
An Encounter, a new short story by Niamh Campbell
Summer Fiction: A story by the winner of the 2020 Sunday Times Audible award and author of This Happy
Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award won by Irish author for two years running
A Q&A with This Happy author Niamh Campbell, winner of £30,000 short story prize
This Happy by Niamh Campbell: The end of the affair
Book review: An affair continues to haunt in Niamh Campbell’s intricate, deftly written debut
Sacred Weather by Niamh Campbell: a John McGahern study of verve and daring
Review: a sophisticated look at the Leitrim writer’s work and his critical reputation
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