Lisa McInerney is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, editor and screenwriter.
McInerney's short work has featured in Winter Papers, Extra Teeth, The Guardian, Le Monde, Granta, BBC Radio 4 and in various anthologies.
It has been translated into French, in which it won the 2018 Ireland Francophonie Ambassadors' Literary Award; Italian, in which it was shortlisted for the Strega European Prize and won the Premio Edoardo Kihlgren[3] for European literature; Spanish, Dutch, German, Czech, Serbian, Polish, Danish and Macedonian.
Focusing on Ryan Cusack, the youngest character from The Glorious Heresies, it was joint winner of the 2018 RSL's Encore Award and was longlisted for the 2018 Dylan Thomas Prize.
[4] Her "big characters" and juicy wording have resulted in comparisons with Patrick McCabe and Irvine Welsh.