Liz Nugent

Liz Nugent is an Irish novelist, born in Dublin in 1967. She is the author of four crime fiction novels.

Biography

Liz Nugent attended Holy Child Killiney, in County Dublin. At the age of six she suffered a brain injury which left her with dystonia. After leaving school she moved to London for a time.[1]

After her return to Ireland she enrolled in an acting course at the Gaiety Theatre, but soon switched to stage management. She toured the world with Riverdance as a stage manager and later worked in an administrative role in RTÉ on its flagship soap Fair City.[2]

During her time at RTÉ she was commissioned to write an animation series for Irish language TV station TG4 and also wrote a full-length radio play for RTE Radio. She subsequently won a European Broadcasting Union competition for a TV pilot.[1]

Her first novel began life as a short story called Alice which made the shortlist of the RTÉ Francis McManus Short Story Competition in 2006.[1] Further exploration into the main character produced her first best-selling novel Unravelling Oliver. She is published by Penguin Ireland and by Scout Press (Simon & Schuster) in the US.[3]

Bibliography
  • Unravelling Oliver (2014)
  • Lying In Wait (2016)
  • Skin Deep (2018)
  • Our Little Cruelties (2020) (as Little Cruelties in USA)


Recognition

Unravelling Oliver

  • Winner: Ireland AM Crime Fiction Award at the Bord Gáis Irish Book Awards in 2014[4]
  • Longlist: Dublin International Literary Award (formerly the IMPAC) 2016[5]


Lying In Wait

  • Winner: Ryan Tubridy Listeners' Choice Award - Irish Book Awards 2016[6]
  • Longlist: Dublin International Literary Award 2018[7]


Skin Deep [8]

  • Winner of two An Post Irish Book Awards 2018: Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year and RTÉ Radio 1's The Ryan Tubridy Show Listeners’ Choice Award[9]
  • Longlist: Dublin International Literary Award 2020[10]
  • "Cancel All Plans for the Book You Can't Put Down Award" - Dead Good Books at the Harrogate Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in 2019[11]


Our Little Cruelties [12]

  • Listed by the New York Times as one of 7 recommended thrillers of 2020[13]


Other awards and bursaries

In 2016, Nugent was awarded the Ireland Funds Monaco Bursary to be the Writer-in-Residence at The Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco[14] and was also Writer-In-Residence in the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris[15] in April 2019.

She was awarded the Woman of the Year Award for Literature 2017.[16]

In February 2021, she was awarded the James Joyce Award by the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin.[17]

She lives in Dublin with her husband.

References
  1. "Dystonia didn't stop me becoming a writer, 22 March 2014". www.irishindependent.ie. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  2. "Liz Nugent: "People have accused me of being brave, but what is namebrave about surviving?"". www.irishtimes.com. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  3. "Liz Nugent inks six-figure deal with major US publisher". September 14, 2016 – via www.rte.ie. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. "An Post Irish Book Awards » Unravelling Oliver".
  5. "Unravelling Oliver – International DUBLIN Literary Award".
  6. O'Loughlin, Writing ie Editor Vanessa (November 17, 2016). "Irish Books Awards Winners 2016!". Writing.ie.
  7. "Lying in Wait – International DUBLIN Literary Award".
  8. Hughes, Declan (2018-04-07). "Skin Deep review: dark monster of a book about beauty and identity". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2018-06-14.
  9. "An Post Irish Book Awards » Winners of The An Post Irish Book Awards 2018 Revealed".
  10. "Skin Deep – International DUBLIN Literary Award".
  11. "The Dead Good Reader Awards 2019". Dead Good. July 19, 2019.
  12. Mullin, Kristoffer. "Our Little Cruelties, by Liz Nugent review" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  13. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/25/books/gifts-for-book-lovers.html
  14. The Ireland Funds Monaco Residential Bursaries: Liz Nugent
  15. "Literature | Previous Residents | Artists in Residence". www.centreculturelirlandais.com.
  16. "Irish Tatler Women of the Year Awards 2017". Irish Tatler.
  17. https://www.facebook.com/UCDLiteraryandHistorical/videos/440712913785495
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