Elected: 2018
Year of birth: 1976
Eimear McBride’s first novel, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, was written when she was 27 and took nine years to find a publisher. It was finally picked up by Galley Beggar Press and received the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize, the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her second novel, The Lesser Bohemians, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, the RSL Encore Award and the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year.
Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour. This role gives them the opportunity to support other writers, readers and the future of literature. The RSL connects writers in the Fellowship to one another, and to a wider readership.
