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Michael Magee: What made me the writer I am today? Watching The Wizard of Oz at age four or five
‘Something shifted on that warm summer’s night in 1996, when the film ended and I found myself waking as if from a dream’
North stars: ‘The vitality of Northern Irish writing has always coincided with political upheaval’
Belfast has a healthy literary scene, closely connected with Queen’s University, whose creative writing tutors include poets Gail McConnell and Stephen Sexton
Paul Murray and Michael Magee win inaugural Nero book awards
Murray's Booker-shortlisted The Bee Sting wins fiction prize; Magee's Close to Home wins debut fiction prize
Michael Magee wins Waterstones Irish Book of the Year; Sebastian Barry wins Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger
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Michael Magee wins 2023 Rooney Prize for Irish Fiction
Belfast author and editor is honoured for his acclaimed debut novel Close to Home
Michael Magee and Colin Walsh shortlisted for Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize
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Close to Home by Michael Magee: deft depiction of a generation facing an uncertain future
The author avoids many pitfalls that plague debut novels, offering fully fleshed-out characters and careful plot progression
Michael Magee: ‘My family for a long time couldn’t really show their Irishness, it wasn’t safe’
The author’s forthcoming novel, Close to Home, explores themes of class and identity, inspired by his own west Belfast childhood
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