Where to begin? -- Eimear McBride's evolving relationship with Beckett's work

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​Eimear McBride is an award-winning novelist whose debut novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing (2013) won her the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her second novel, The Lesser Bohemians (2016) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her short stories have appeared in The Guardian, Dubliners 100, and on BBC Radio 4, where she regularly features in radio programmes about literature, including 'Bookclub', 'Free Thinking', 'Only Artists', 'A Good Read' and 'The Verb'.

​Eimear was appointed as the Beckett Centre's Inaugural Creative Fellow in September 2017. Her remit was to make visits to the Samuel Beckett archives held at the University and make new creative work from her engagement with the materials she found there. This new work will be launched at a public event this Autumn, where the author will discuss her responses to Samuel Beckett. Details of these events and the new work will follow.

During her fellowship, Eimear has produced a series of reflections about her evolving relationship to Beckett’s work through the archive. ​​

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