Culture That Made Me: Louise Kennedy on Toni Morrison, Top of the Pops and Call My Agent

The Irish author recently won the Irish novel of the year award for her book, Trespasses. Here she delves into some of her touchstone references 
Culture That Made Me: Louise Kennedy on Toni Morrison, Top of the Pops and Call My Agent

Culture That Made Me: Louise Kennedy

Born in 1967, Louise Kennedy grew up in Holywood, Co Down. She spent nearly 30 years working as a chef before finding almost immediate success as a fiction writer. Her short story collection The End of the World is a Cul de Sac won the John McGahern Prize. Her debut novel Trespasses, which won Novel of the Year at the An Post Book Awards, is published by Bloomsbury. She lives in Sligo and is married with two adult children.

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