Rencontre with Michael Magee

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).

Tonight Michael Magee talks about novel-writing and where exactly this story came from.