Irish · b. 1976
Eimear McBride won the Baileys Women's Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize for "A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing," a novel written in fractured stream of consciousness that took nine years to find a publisher. The Irish author's debut depicted sexual abuse and family trauma through language that mirrors a mind in formation. McBride writes prose that refuses the comfort of conventional syntax, demanding that readers experience consciousness directly.