Eimear McBride

Eimear McBride was born in 1976 in Liverpool to Northern Irish parents. Aged two she and her family returned to Ireland and her childhood was mostly spent in Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo. At fourteen they moved again to Castlebar, Co Mayo. In 1994, at seventeen, she went to London and spent the next three years studying acting at Drama Centre. Much of her twenties were spent temping and travelling. At twenty-seven she wrote A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing. It won the 2013 Goldsmiths Prize, the 2014 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the 2014 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award and the 2014 Desmond Elliott Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2014 Folio Prize.  She moved to Cork in 2006, and Norwich in 2011, where she currently lives with her husband and daughter.