Writing.ie Short Story of the Year

Shortlisted 2021

Bernard MacLaverty

Blackthorns

Bernard MacLaverty lives in Glasgow. He has written five previous collections of stories and five novels, including Grace Notes, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Midwinter Break, the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Novel of the Year. He has written versions of his fiction for other media – radio and television plays, screenplays and libretti.

Bernard MacLaverty photo credit: Robert Burns

Other authors shortlisted in this category...

Roddy Doyle

Alan Murrin

Jan Carson

Deirdre Sullivan 

Stuart Neville

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