#Scurf190: Conversation with Niamh Campbell
The Sunday Times Short Story Award winner on writing after childbirth, Dublin's welcome hipster gentrification and the vulnerability of being a young person in today's world
For this edition of Conversations, I chat with Niamh Campbell whose debut novel This Happy was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 2020, and nominated for the An Post Irish Book Awards, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, and the John McGahern Book Prize. Her second novel We Were Young was published in 2022. She lives and works in Dublin.
In 2020 Niamh won the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award for her story Love Many, and in 2021 she was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Her short work can be found in The LA Review of Books, The Dublin Review, 3:AM Magazine, Banshee, Tangerine, Five Dials, Granta, and gorse. She has been funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and is 2021 Writer in Residence at University College Dublin.
