A writing life’s long afterglow… Lucy Caldwell, the latest winner of a prize funded by the royalties of the novel Maurice, reflects on conquering shame. A year before he died, EM Forster sent a parcel to Christopher Isherwood containing the manuscript of his novel, Maurice. The first draft of the novel, a story of homosexual love, had been completed almost 60 years earlier, but had remained unpublished. Homosexuality was still ...
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On writing These Days. As a toddler, my son was obsessed with Janet & Alan Ahlberg’s Peepo! It’s a day in the life of a baby, but in the background is the London Blitz: bombed-out buildings, a Zeppelin. Night after night I thought how, in our bedroom, part of a converted Victorian warehouse in East London, we would have survived the entire Blitz: but safety could be measured in metres, ...
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Author Lucy Caldwell is back with a new book These Days, about a city under siege from a vicious four day bombing campaign ...
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Chris Power talks with novelists Lucy Caldwell and Louise Kennedy about their new novels, both set in Belfast at intense moments of 20th century history, both treatments of women's lives at a time of war and conflict: Lucy Caldwell's These Days is the story of sisters Emma and Audrey during the terrifying Belfast Blitz of 1941, while Louise Kennedy's Trespasses is about a relationship between an older Protestant man and ...
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(Irish Times) In Lucy Caldwell’s forthcoming novel, These Days, she describes bombed-out Belfast – the fire “cascading” into terraced houses, the bank so badly damaged it must be dynamited before it collapses, and street after street which has been completely destroyed. “Belfast is finished, people say. There is no way we can come back from this,” she writes. This was not the Troubles but the Belfast Blitz, a devastating series ...
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Writer Lucy Caldwell on about her love for short stories and why we should celebrate our homegrown talent Aine Toner for the Belfast Telegraph It is a pleasure to speak with Lucy Caldwell, award winning novelist, playwright and short story writer, someone who is keen to promote the variety of Northern Irish creative talent. er writing career has been varied and significant, delivering personable, believable works that have captured critics ...
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Belfast-born writer Lucy Caldwell is a well established name on the Northern Irish literary scene and most recently won the BBC National Short Story Award. She chats to JOANNE SAVAGE about belief, motherhood, creativity and the drunkenness of things being various By Joanne Savage East Belfast born novelist and playwright Lucy Caldwell recently won the BBC National Short Story Prize for 'All The People Were Mean and Bad' East Belfast ...
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In our Northern Ireland Writers Day 2 evening panel discussion, in partnership with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI), we celebrated some of the finest Northern Irish writers working across form and genre today. Led by RSL Fellow Lucy Caldwell, sci-fi novelist Ian McDonald, Irish language children’s writer Máire Zepf, performance poet Abby Oliveira, and crime writer Steve Cavanagh discussed their work, routes into writing and the Northern Irish ...
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