Join us for the seventh annual John McGahern Book Prize and hear excerpts from the winning entry.
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The final arbiter will be Irish novelist and former University of Liverpool Chancellor, Colm Tóibín, who will select the winner later this summer.
The prize was established by the University’s Institute of Irish Studies to promote new Irish fiction and to celebrate the memory of one of Ireland’s greatest masters of prose fiction, John McGahern (1934-2006). The competition carries an award of £5,000 for the best debut novel or short story collection by an Irish writer or writer resident in Ireland published in 2024.
The winner will be in conversation with Professor Frank Shovlin (who will be talking about his authorised biography of John McGahern in a separate event at 11.30am).