Writing.ie Short Story of the Year

Winner 2022

Nuala O’Connor

This Small Giddy Life

Nuala O’Connor’s fifth novel NORA (New Island), about Nora Barnacle and James Joyce, was a Top 10 historical novel in the New York Times and the One Dublin One Book for 2022. Nuala curated the Ulysses 100 exhibition at MoLI, –Love, Says Bloom. She is editor at flash e-journal Splonk.

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