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Ruth Gilligan wins Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize

May 17, 2021 by andrew

The Butchers by UEA alumna Ruth Gilligan has won this year’s Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, which is worth £10,000 for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry evoking the spirit of a place. The novel was published by Atlantic Books last year. Ruth was born in Dublin in 1988 and studied at Cambridge and […]

Ruth Gilligan shortlisted for RSL/Ondaatje Prize

April 28, 2021 by andrew

The Butchers by UEA alumna Ruth Gilligan has been shortlisted for this year’s Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, which is worth £10,000 for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry evoking the spirit of a place. The novel was published by Atlantic Books last year. Ruth was born in Dublin in 1988 and […]

Ruth Gilligan and Monique Roffey longlisted for RSL Ondaatje Prize

April 17, 2021 by andrew

Novels by two alumnae of UEA have been longlisted for this year’s Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. The Butchers by Ruth Gilligan (Atlantic Books) and The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey (Peepal Tree Press) are nominated for the award, which is worth £10,000 for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry […]

The Butchers

March 25, 2020 by andrew

The opening to The Butchers by Ruth Gilligan, published by Atlantic Books on 26th March 2020.   Prologue New York, January 2018 Even now, twenty-two years since he took the photograph, he still cannot quite believe the lack of blood. The cold store isn’t a big room, maybe twenty by twenty at a push, the wall […]

The Butchers by Ruth Gilligan

March 22, 2020 by andrew

The Butchers is the new novel by UEA alumna Ruth Gilligan and is published by Atlantic Books this week. Ruth was born in Dublin in 1988 and studied at Cambridge and Yale before coming to UEA. She graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2011, and completed a PhD in English at Exeter […]

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