Lucy Caldwell is the author of four novels, most recently These Days, which won the 2023 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction; three collections of short stories, most recently Openings (Faber, 2024); several stage plays and radio dramas, and is the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories. Awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature,
Lucy Caldwell is the author of four novels, most recently These Days, which won the 2023 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction; three collections of short stories, most recently Openings (Faber, 2024); several stage plays and radio dramas, and is the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories. Awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the George Devine Award, Dylan Thomas Prize, and a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; in 2021 she won the BBC National Short Story Award for “All the People Were Mean and Bad” and in 2022 she was the recipient of the EM Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. She runs a masterclass series in the short story for the Faber Academy. Her website is www.lucycaldwell.com and she tweets @beingvarious.
