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SINÉAD GLEESON

Sinéad Gleeson’s essay collection Constellations won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writer. It was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and has been translated into several languages. She is the editor of four fiction anthologies including The Art of the Glimpse and co-edited This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music with Kim Gordon. Her debut novel, Hagstone, was published in 2024 by 4th Estate. It was longlisted for Dublin International Literary Award and shortlisted for the John McGahern Book Prize.

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