Grand literary prize for a writer from Cork

Danielle McLaughlin, author and former solitary lawyer and lawyer in Cork, won one of the most lucrative literary awards in the world, the Windham-Campbell Award, worth $ 165,000 ($ 146,000). 000 €).

Danielle began writing professionally 10 a few years ago, at the age of 40, when the disease forced her to stop practicing law.

UCC's resident writer received the award during a ceremony that took place at Stationers Hall, London, with seven other winners, including the American author Rebecca Solnit.

The quote from the judges read as follows: "The stories of Danielle McLaughlin illustrate the beauty and brutality of human relationships, giving them almost magical qualities rooted in the details of everyday life in a serene and resonant manner." [19659002] The Windham-Campbell Award, awarded to the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Yale University, was established in 2013 by the late Donald Windham, in memory of his partner andy M Campbell.

The prize, which has no application process or public candidacy, is judged anonymously and the authors are unaware that it is taken into consideration until it wins. .

The awards recognize the exception writers of fiction, documentary and drama who write in English. Danielle McLaughlin's stories have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times, Southword and The New Yorker, as well as in various anthologies.

Her first collection of Dinosaurs on Other Planets was published in Ireland by The Stinging Fly Press in 2015.

In 2017, she was visiting researcher at the Oscar Wilde Center, Trinity College, Dublin, where she conducted workshops for Mr. Phil's students in creative writing.

In collaboration with the writer and graduate of the Master Madeleine D & # 39; Arcy, she co-directs Fiction at the Friary, a free monthly fictional event in Cork that takes place at the Friary Bar in North Mall, the last Sunday of each month.