Goldsmiths Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 1 (2013) Winner
Eimear McBride
えいみあ まくぶらいど
Eimear McBride
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1976-10-06 （Liverpool）
- Nationality
- Irish
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Liverpool (birth) → Tubbercurry, County Sligo → Castlebar, County Mayo → London → Norwich → Saint Petersburg (2000, 4 months) → Cork → London (2017—)
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, playwright, film director
- Active Years
- 2013-2025
- Affiliations
- Royal Society of Literature
- Memberships
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2018)
- Influenced By
- James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Anna Akhmatova
- Nominations
- Goldsmiths Prize 2016 shortlist (The Lesser Bohemians), Folio Prize 2014 shortlist
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Drama Centre London | — | Acting | — | 1993頃-1997頃 | United Kingdom |
The Drama Centre London
Acting
Period:
1993頃-1997頃
Year of Graduation:
1997
Country:
United Kingdom
Moved to London at 17 to study acting, but lost interest after graduation
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Goldsmiths Prize | A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing | — | Goldsmiths, University of London | winner |
| 2014 | Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction | A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing | — | — | winner |
| 2017 | James Tait Black Memorial Prize | The Lesser Bohemians | — | — | winner |
| 2014 | Desmond Elliott Prize | A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing | — | — | winner |
| 2014 | Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award | A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing | — | — | winner |
| 2013 | Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize | A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing | — | — | winner |
Goldsmiths Prize
2013
Work:
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
Organization:
Goldsmiths, University of London
Result:
winner
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
2014
Work:
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
Result:
winner
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
2017
Work:
The Lesser Bohemians
Result:
winner
Desmond Elliott Prize
2014
Work:
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
Result:
winner
Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award
2014
Work:
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
Result:
winner
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
2013
Work:
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Women's Prize for Fiction
1 appearances
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Edition 19 (2014) Winner
James Tait Black Memorial Prizes
1 appearances
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Edition 98 (2016) Winner
Works
Major Works
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
2013 NovelStream-of-consciousness debut novel about a young woman's complex family relationships.
familytraumaidentity
The Lesser Bohemians
2016 NovelSet in 1990s Camden Town, turbulent relationship between an 18-year-old drama student and a 38-year-old actor.
loveage differenceart
Strange Hotel
2020 NovelA woman's inner journey in a hotel.
lonelinessdesire
Mouthpieces
2021 Performance textsCollection of three performance texts from Beckett fellowship.
The City Changes its Face
2025 NovelLatest novel published in 2025.
Bibliography
- A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (2013)
- The Lesser Bohemians (2016)
- Strange Hotel (2020)
- Something Out of Place: Women and Disgust (2021)
- Mouthpieces (2021)
- The City Changes its Face (2025)
Adaptations
- A Very Short Film About Longing (writer/director, 2022)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- stream of consciousnessfragmented styleinnovative form
- Recurring Motifs
- traumafemale experiencealienation
Legacy
Acclaimed innovative Irish novelist known for stream-of-consciousness style, winner of multiple prizes.
In Popular Culture
- Short stories in The Guardian, etc.
Trivia
- Wrote debut in 6 months but took 9 years to publish
- Inaugural Goldsmiths Prize winner
- First Beckett Creative Fellow at University of Reading