Author: McKinley Corbley / Source: Good News Network
Despite how some people might view the work of a custodian, this janitor has just been given one of Ireland’s most prestigious awards by the school that she cleans.
Caitriona Lally was named the recipient of the 2018 Rooney Prize for Literature in recognition of “Eggshells”, her first and only novel.
The award can be given to an Irish writer under the age of 40 who shows “exceptional promise” in their body of work.
According to Trinity College, the school that distributes the award, Lally’s book is “a work of impressive imaginative reach” that is “witty, subtle and occasionally endearingly unpredictable” that also “reveals an artistic vision which is distinctive in contemporary Irish writing.”
The news of Lally’s award could not have come at a better time, either – she told Trinity College that she had not been in a great mental state when the prize committee gave her the call. Every morning, she…
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