The award-winning author Sebastian Barry has vowed to celebrate what he described as a “golden age of Irish prose writing” after being named the new laureate for Irish fiction. “I am really happy to be the ambassador of this rather stupendous reality for a few years,” he added. Barry said the current “golden age of Irish prose writing”, which has seen authors including Donal Ryan, Eimear McBride, Rob Doyle, Kevin Barry, Mike McCormack and Sara Baume come to the fore, was a relatively new phenomenon. “With his soul-searching, heart-stopping prose Sebastian Barry takes Irish fiction where it hasn’t been before. This most lyrical of myth-makers magically rearranges our synapses.”With his soul-searching, heart-stopping prose Sebastian Barry takes Irish fiction where it hasn't been beforeBarry revealed that one strand of his laureateship would see him focusing on writers reading their own work.

Source: The Guardian February 08, 2018 12:22 UTC