
Rencontre with Michael Magee
Post date: Tuesday 22 Oct 2024
Rencontre with Michael Magee on 18 September 2024 - in English
Close to Home, Magee's first novel to be published in French, has been unanimously praised by the English-language press and won numerous literary prizes (Rooney Prize for Fiction, Nero Award…). Set in post-1998 Belfast, “this taut debut about a working-class young man wrestling with masculinity and lack of opportunity feels like a genuinely necessary book.” (The Guardian).
In this conversation with his editor, Francis Geffard, the author talks about novel-writing and where the story of Close to Home came from.