Efacis Nuala O’Connor lives in Co. Galway, Ireland. Her short story ‘Gooseen’ won the UK’s 2018 Short Fiction Prize, was published in Granta and was shortlisted for Story of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. Nuala’s third novel, Miss Emily, about the poet Emily Dickinson and her Irish maid was shortlisted for the Eason Book Club Novel of the Year 2015 and longlisted for the 2017 International DUBLIN Literary Award. Her fourth novel, Becoming Belle, was published to critical acclaim in September 2018. Her fifth novel, Nora, about Nora Barnacle and James Joyce, was published in January 2021.
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