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Caoilinn Hughes

Gabrielle Monaghan

Galway native Caoilinn Hughes has won a string of awards for her poetry, short stories and novels.

Her debut novel, Orchid & the Wasp, won the Collyer Bristow Prize in 2019. Hughes clinched prize money of £10,000 (€11,700) in 2021 when her second book, The Wild Laughter, won the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award.