Wendy Erskine's two short story collections, Sweet Home and Dance Move, have between them been listed for the Gordon Burn Prize, the Edgehill Prize, the Butler Literary Award and the Sunday Times Short Story Prize (for the story 'Inakeen') and were included as books of the year in the Times Literary Supplement, the Observer, the Guardian, the White Review and the Irish Times, among others.
Dance Move was serialised as BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, and Wendy has written originally stories for performance on BBC and RTÉ in Ireland. She has a show on Soho Radio for Rough Trade Books, edited the anthology, well I just kind of like it, about art in the home for Paper Visual Art Books (2022) and her non-fiction has appeared in the Guardian and the Quietus amongst other places.
She is a full-time teacher in a secondary school.
'One of the greats' - Lucy Caldwell, author of Intimacies
'Comic brilliance' - Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations
'Ingenious' - The Irish Times
'Daring, funny, heartbreaking' - Observer
Following the prize-winning Sweet Home, Wendy Erskine's Belfast is once again illuminated. Meet Drew Lord Haig, called on to sing an obscure hit from his youth at a paramilitary event. Meet Max as he recalls an eventful journey to a Christian film festival. And Mrs Dallesandro who dreams of being a teenager again as she sits in a tanning salon on her wedding anniversary. In these stories, Erskine's characters' wishes and hopes often fall short of their grasp. Brilliantly drawn, Dance Move is about the hugeness of life as seen through glimpses of the everyday.
'A masterpiece' - David Keenan, author of Monument Maker
'Wendy Erskine's debut, Sweet Home, was pitch perfect . . . Dance Move is equally brilliant' - The Daily Mail
'Erskine's stories open slight, but they contain more than it seems possible for short stories to contain' - Keith Ridgway, author of Hawthorn & Child
'She isn’t just one of the leading writers of short fiction at work today but one of the leading writers, period.' - Matt Rowland Hill, author of Original Sins
As Read on BBC Radio 4
Shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize
Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year
The Irish Times Books of the Year 2022
Título : Dance Move
EAN : 9781529085235
Editorial : Pan Macmillan
Edad, de : 18 años
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