Lucy Caldwell

Lucy Caldwell was born in Belfast. She is the author of four novels, most recently These Days, which won the 2023 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, several stage plays and radio dramas, and four collections of short stories, Multitudes, Intimacies, Openings, and Devotions (April 2026), and is the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories.

Awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. In 2018 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; in 2021 she won the BBC National Short Story Award for “All the People Were Mean and Bad” and in 2022 she was the recipient of the EM Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.