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Apr 1, 2023 · Michael Magee sat his driving theory test on the day of our interview. If his record of turning literary theory into practice is any guide – a degree, a master’s and a PhD in creative writing ...
- Martin Doyle
Michael Magee (born May 1990), [1] also known as Michael Nolan, [2] is a writer from Northern Ireland. His first novel, Close to Home , won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature , was a category winner in the Nero Book Awards , and was the Waterstones Irish Book of the Year.
May 9, 2023 · Set in Belfast in the aftermath of the financial crash, Michael Magee’s debut novel Close To Home focuses on Sean, a twenty-something nightclub worker who lives for the weekend, and dreams of ...
Apr 12, 2024 · Luminous and devastating, Close To Home by Michael Magee is a portrait of modern masculinity shaped by class, trauma, and silence, but also by the courage to love and to survive. His poignant debut has already brought in a multitude of literary prizes, including being crowned the Winner of the Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction 2023.
- Madeleine Knowles
In his striking debut novel Close to Home, Michael Magee delivers an at once piercing and moving portrait of modern masculinity, investigating the inherited trauma and generational cycles of violence and poverty that shape the life of his protagonist Sean as he returns to Belfast after university. In this exclusive piece, the author talks about ...
Apr 5, 2023 · Michael Magee’s Close to Home first caught my eye on Twitter, partly thanks to that quietly striking cover, partly lots of people whose opinions I trust impressed by it. Drawing on his own experience, Magee’s debut follows Sean from his squalid Belfast flat the night after a bender has seen him assault a guy at a party he’s gate-crashed through his two hundred-hour-community service ...
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Michael Magee is the fiction editor of the Tangerine and a graduate of the creative writing PhD programme at Queen’s University, Belfast. His writing has appeared in Winter Papers, The Stinging Fly, The Lifeboat and The 32: The Anthology of Irish Working-Class Voices.
