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Naoise Dolan



Naoise Dolan is an Irish writer born in Dublin. She studied at Trinity College, followed by a master's in Victorian literature at Oxford. Her writing has featured in The Dublin Review and The Stinging Fly.


Genres: General Fiction, Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Exciting Times (2020)
   The Happy Couple (2023)
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Award nominations
2024 Polari Prize for Best Book (longlist) : The Happy Couple
2021 Desmond Elliott Prize (nominee) : Exciting Times
2021 British Book Award Debut Book of the Year (shortlist) : Exciting Times


Naoise Dolan recommends
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The Three of Us (2023)
Ore Agbaje-Williams
"Deftly plotted and wickedly enjoyable."
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None of This Is Serious (2022)
Catherine Prasifka
"An extraordinary novel. None of This Is Serious brilliantly explores the impossibility to "come of age" in end times, where screens are so contiguous to experience that no-one is ever truly online or offline. She writes truthfully and with affectless nuance about the labyrinthine workings of friend groups and the defences women scramble for in a world that still hates us."
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Heaven (2021)
Mieko Kawakami
"Heaven is told with astonishing frankness and economy. It will cut through all your defences down to every layer of fear, isolation, hope and need you’ve ever felt. The central pair of fourteen year old outcasts reckon with pain, belonging and the search for meaning in a way that’s heartbreaking and compelling. Mieko Kawakami is a genius."

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