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Louise Kennedy

Date of Birth: 1 January 1970
Address: Sligo

Louise Kennedy grew up in Holywood, Co. Down, Kildare, and Dublin. Her short stories have been published in periodicals such as The Stinging Fly, The Tangerine, The Lonely Crowd and Banshee. Her writing has won the Ambit Short Fiction award (2015), Wasifiri New Writing prize (2015), John O’Connor award (2016) and the Listowel Los-Gatos prizes (2016). She has been short-listed and commended for other awards. She She holds an MA from Queens University in Belfast and is a PhD candidate at the Seamus Heaney Centre in Queens, where she has been researching writer Norah Hoult (1898-1984). Louise Kennedy's collection of short stories, The End of the World is a Cup-de-Sac, was recently published by Bloomsbury to excellent reviews and her debut novel, Trespasses is also published by publisher Bloomsbury. She lives together with her husband and two teenage children in Sligo.

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