Irish author Lisa McInerney wins 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction

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8 June 2016 • The Telegraph

  

Debut Irish author Lisa McInerney has won the prestigious Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction with her first novel The Glorious Heresies.
At an awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall, London – hosted by novelist and Prize Co-Founder, Kate Mosse – the 2016 Chair of Judges, Margaret Mountford, presented the author with the £30,000 prize and the "Bessie", a limited edition bronze figurine.
 

 

Margaret Mountford, chairman of the judging panel, presents a trophy to Lisa McInerney Credit: PA Wire

The Glorious Heresies beat nominees including fellow Irish writer and Man Booker winner Anne Enright's The Green Road and Cynthia Bond's debut Ruby, which was championed by Oprah Winfrey.   MORE

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