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Andrew Meehan
Andrew’s short fiction has been published in The Stinging Fly, The Moth, Banshee and Winter Papers, and in TOWN & COUNTRY: The Faber Book of New Irish Stories. His debut novel One Star Awake (New Island) was longlisted for the 2018 Desmond Elliott Prize, the UK's most prestigious award for debut novelists. It was described by Sue Leonard in the Irish Examiner as ‘mesmerising, inventive, heart-wrenching, and brilliantly realised.’
His second book, The Mystery Of Love, a unique and moving reimagining of the relationship between Constance and Oscar Wilde, was published in 2020. Alastair Mabbott wrote in The Herald that ‘The Mystery of Love lives up to its Wildean title, forensically examining the bond that endures in a marriage which is in almost every other way dysfunctional. And while it must be daunting to take on the master of the epigram, Meehan rises to the challenge, liberally dousing his text with irresistibly resonant and quotable passages.’
Andrew is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Prior to writing fiction, he worked for many years in script development, most notably at the Irish Film Board where he nurtured numerous Irish feature-films, including the Oscar-nominated animated feature Song of the Sea and the ground-breaking comedy Good Vibrations. Andrew also writes screenplays, and film adaptations of One Star Awake and The Mystery of Love are in funded development. He was born in Dublin and lives in Glasgow with his partner Áine Prendergast, a scientist.
Andrew’s third novel Instant Fires will be published in September 2022.