Caoilinn Hughes

Caoilinn Hughes is an Irish writer whose first novel Orchid & the Wasp (Oneworld 2018) won the Collyer Bristow Prize 2019, and was shortlisted for the Hearst Big Book Awards, the Butler Literary Award and was longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and the International Dublin Literary Award 2020. Her poetry collection, Gathering Evidence (Carcanet 2014), won the Irish Times Strong/Shine Award. Her short fiction won The Moth Short Story Prize 2018, an O.Henry Prize in 2019 and the Irish Book Awards' Story of the Year 2020. Her second novel, The Wild Laughter (2020) was shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards' Novel of the Year, the RTÉ Radio 1 Listener's Choice Award 2020, longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2021, and won the RSL's Encore Award 2021. She is the 2021 Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.