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Lucy Caldwell

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Northern Ireland, Belfast Region, Belfast

Lucy Caldwell FRSL is a Northern Irish playwright and novelist. She was the winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award and of the 2023 Walter Scott Prize. She studied at Strathearn School and later at Queens’ College, Cambridge, graduating with a First-Class Degree, and Goldsmiths, University of London. Caldwell left the city she had always considered “boring, introverted” in 1999, but later declared: “yes, it’s true: I do love this city, and I do love these streets, and I am proud to be from here.”

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