Lucy Caldwell

Lucy Caldwell was born in Belfast and is the author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, and four collections of short stories: Multitudes, Intimacies, Openings and most recently Devotions. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018, she was the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories in 2019. She won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2021 for ‘All the People Were Mean and Bad’. Other awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the Imison Award, the George Devine Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Walter Scott Prize and the 2022 E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.