About this episode

Elaine Feeney discusses the books she would save in a fire and shares insights about her literary career.

Elaine Feeney tells Ruth McKee which books she’d save if her house was on fire. Elaine Feeney is an acclaimed novelist and poet from the West of Ireland. Her debut novel, As You Were , was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Irish Novel of the Year Award, and won the Kate O’Brien Award, the McKitterick Prize and the Dalkey Festival Emerging Writer Award. How to Build a Boat was also shortlisted for Irish Novel of the Year, longlisted for the Booker Prize, and was a New Yorker Best Book of the Year. With her third novel, Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way , Feeney was shortlisted again for Irish Novel of the Year and won the Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year. Feeney has published the poetry collections Where’s Katie? , The Radio Was Gospel , Rise and All the Good Things You Deserve , and lectures at the University of Galway.

People in this episode

Host: Ruth McKee

Guest: Elaine Feeney

Topics covered

• books
• literature
• poetry
• Irish authors
• novels
• interviews

Keywords

• Elaine Feeney
• Ruth McKee
• Irish literature
• novels
• poetry
• book recommendations

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: As You Were, How to Build a Boat, Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way, Where’s Katie?, The Radio Was Gospel, Rise and All the Good Things You Deserve

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