Audrey Magee | |
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Born | Ireland |
Occupation | Novelist and journalist |
Nationality | Irish |
Education | University College Dublin; Dublin City University |
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Audrey Magee is an Irish novelist and journalist. Her debut novel, The Undertaking, was nominated for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction in 2014. [1] [2] [3] [4] Her novel The Colony was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. [5]
Born in Ireland, Magee studied German and French at University College Dublin and journalism at Dublin City University. [6] For 12 years, she worked as a journalist, writing for publications such as The Times , The Irish Times , The Observer , and The Guardian . [6]
In 2014, Magee published The Undertaking, her debut novel. [4] It was published by Atlantic Books. [7] The novel is set in World War II-era Germany and "tells the story of Peter Faber, a German soldier fighting on the Eastern front, who marries Katharina Spinell, a woman he has never met, in order to escape the horrors of the battlefield for a few days." [7]
She wrote The Undertaking with the goal of trying to understand "what it was like to have been an ordinary German during the Second World War." [3] Magee took a "long time" to write the novel, as she "struggled with the novel's cruelty and indifference." [3] To cope, she took walks and drank tea. [3] A review of the novel in The New York Times said: "To write a story that doesn't allow for much sympathy, that keeps readers at a remove from the central characters, is one of the greatest challenges an author can undertake. That Magee succeeds as well as she does is impressive." [4]
Magee lives in Wicklow with her husband and three daughters. [8]
Her novel The Colony – which "follows two outsiders who travel to a small island off the west coast of Ireland in search of answers" [9] – was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. [10]
Year | Title | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
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2014 | The Undertaking | Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction | — | Shortlisted | |
Irish Book Award | Newcomer | Nominated | |||
Waverton Good Read Award | — | Longlisted | |||
2015 | Walter Scott Prize | — | Longlisted | ||
2016 | International Dublin Literary Award | — | Longlisted | ||
2022 | The Colony | Booker Prize | — | Longlisted | |
Irish Book Award | Novel | Nominated | |||
Orwell Prize | Political Fiction | Shortlisted | |||
2023 | Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award | — | Shortlisted |
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