Two Irish authors among Booker prize longlist of 13 writers aged 20 to 87
Irish novelist Claire Keegan from Wexford. Picture: Domnick Walsh
This year’s Booker prize longlist, described as “challenging, stimulating, surprising, nourishing” by the chair of judges, contains the youngest and oldest authors ever to be nominated for the award, as well as two Irish nominees.
Two authors from Ireland, Claire Keegan from Wexford and Audrey Magee, who lives in Wicklow, have been nominated for their novels. Keegan’s 116-page Small Things Like These is the shortest book on the list. It set in the run-up to Christmas 1985 in a small Irish town. Magee makes the list for The Colony, in which two men spend the summer on a sparsely populated island
