Liz Nugent (born 1967 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish novelist. She is the author of five crime novels. Her latest novel is Strange Sally Diamond, published in the Ireland and UK in March 2023.

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 School of Acting, 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 Sandycove in Ireland and the UK,[3] and by Scout Press (Simon & Schuster) in the US.[4]

Bibliography

  • Unravelling Oliver (2014)
  • Lying In Wait (2016)
  • Skin Deep (2018)
  • Our Little Cruelties (2020) (as Little Cruelties in United States)
  • Strange Sally Diamond (2023)

Recognition

Unravelling Oliver

  • Winner: Ireland AM Crime Fiction Award at the Bord Gáis Irish Book Awards in 2014[5]
  • Longlist: Dublin International Literary Award (formerly the IMPAC) 2016[6]

Lying In Wait

  • Winner: Ryan Tubridy Listeners' Choice Award - Irish Book Awards 2016[7]
  • Longlist: Dublin International Literary Award 2018[8]

Skin Deep [9]

  • 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[10]
  • Longlist: Dublin International Literary Award 2020[11]
  • "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[12]

Our Little Cruelties [13]

  • Listed by the New York Times as one of 7 recommended thrillers of 2020[14]

Strange Sally Diamond[15]

  • Featured on BBC's Between the Covers sixth season[16]

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[17] and was also Writer-In-Residence in the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris[18] in April 2019.

She was awarded the Woman of the Year Award for Literature 2017.[19]

In February 2021, she was awarded the James Joyce Award by the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin.[20]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "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. ↑ Strange Sally Diamond on penguin.co.uk
  4. ↑ "Liz Nugent inks six-figure deal with major US publisher". 14 September 2016 – via www.rte.ie. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ↑ "An Post Irish Book Awards » Unravelling Oliver". An Post Irish Book Awards. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
  6. ↑ "Unravelling Oliver – International DUBLIN Literary Award".
  7. ↑ O'Loughlin, Writing ie Editor Vanessa (17 November 2016). "Irish Books Awards Winners 2016!". Writing.ie. {{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  8. ↑ "Lying in Wait – DUBLIN Literary Award". DUBLIN Literary Award. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
  9. ↑ Hughes, Declan (7 April 2018). "Skin Deep review: dark monster of a book about beauty and identity". The Irish Times. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  10. ↑ "An Post Irish Book Awards » Winners of The An Post Irish Book Awards 2018 Revealed". An Post Irish Book Awards. 27 November 2018.
  11. ↑ "Skin Deep – DUBLIN Literary Award". DUBLIN Literary Award 2020 Longlist.
  12. ↑ "The Dead Good Reader Awards 2019". Dead Good. 19 July 2019.
  13. ↑ Mullin, Kristoffer. "Our Little Cruelties, by Liz Nugent review" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  14. ↑ "The Best Books to Give This Year". The New York Times. 25 November 2020.
  15. ↑ White, Sophie. "Strange Sally Diamond, by Liz Nugent review" – via www.independent.ie.
  16. ↑ "Strange Sally Diamond selected for BBC Between the Covers".
  17. ↑ "The Ireland Funds Monaco Residential Bursaries: Liz Nugent" (PDF). irelandfunds.org.
  18. ↑ "Literature | Previous Residents | Artists in Residence". Centre Culturel Irlandais.
  19. ↑ "Irish Tatler Women of the Year Awards 2017". Irish Tatler.
  20. ↑ Doyle, Martin (21 March 2013). "Liz Nugent receives UCD's Literary and Historical Society James Joyce award". The Irish Times.
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