Danielle McLaughlin

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Danielle McLaughlin’s debut novel The Art of Falling is published in January 2021 by Random House in the US and in February 2021 by John Murray in the UK and Ireland.

Danielle’s debut collection of short stories, Dinosaurs On Other Planets, was published in Ireland in 2015 by The Stinging Fly Press and in the UK and the US & Canada by John Murray and Random House in 2016. In 2019 she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction. She was Writer in Residence at UCC for 2018-2019.

Danielle’s stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Irish Times, Southword, The Penny Dreadful and in The Stinging Fly.

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She has won various awards for her short fiction, including the William Trevor/Elizabeth Bowen International Short Story Competition, The Willesden Herald International Short Story Prize, The Merriman Short Story Competition in memory of Maeve Binchy, and the Dromineer Literary Festival Short Story Competition. Danielle was awarded an Arts Council Bursary in 2013. In 2019 she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction and was the winner of the SundayTimes Audible Short Story Award 2019.

She lives in County Cork with her husband and three children.

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The Art of Falling (UK & Ireland)

By Danielle McLaughlin

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The Art of Falling (US)

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Dinosaurs on other planets

Dinosaurs On Other Planets

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The Snow Globe – Irish Times 29 December 2020

The Snow Globe – Irish Times 29 December 2020

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PRAISE FOR DANIELLE MCLAUGHLIN

McLaughlin’s compelling prose ensures that we care about the life of these characters, particularly Nessa, who is drawn convincingly with nuance and shade.... There’s also humour nestling amid the drama,...The Art of Falling is the rarest of novels, as it’s both a page-turner and an affecting meditation on love, art, truth and faithfulness in all its forms.

JOHN WALSHE
The Sunday Business Post
Danielle McLaughlin is a remarkable writer. Reading “Dinosaurs on Other Planets,” her 2016 collection of short stories, one is struck by the sheer gorgeousness of the prose, particularly in descriptions of natural settings; by the quick, seemingly effortless characterizations of her often very complex characters; by the elegant and sometimes devastating economy of the narration; and by McLaughlin’s sure-handed sense of the shape of the short story. It’s exciting to read the work of someone who is so clearly gifted.

SUE MILLER
The New York Times
For such a meaty, sparky book — McLaughlin keeps multiple plates not just spinning, but humming harmoniously...It’s a superior work of character-driven literary fiction in the spirit of Bernard MacLaverty or Tessa Hadley... What I’m saying is, if The Art of Falling doesn’t make a prize shortlist or two this year, we should riot.

JOHN SELF
The Times
The Art of Falling, set mainly in contemporary Cork, is a compelling exploration of the ethics and emotional contours of marital affection and sexual infidelity... a gripping and thoughtful novel, taut with narrative suspense and brimming with emotional insight.

DOUG BATTERSBY
The Financial Times
McLaughlin’s remarkable debut novel...McLaughlin’s descriptions of the art and its appeal have an almost mythic quality...and she has a gift for precise characterization. This engaging and evocative work will stay with readers..

STARRED REVIEW
Publishers Weekly
That the tensile quality of the writing can be sustained across 11 stories is a testament to the author’s devotion to craft and to an obvious flair for the musicality of language. What’s here are controlled notes, meticulous melodies. ... This is a remarkable first collection from a distinctive and extremely gifted writer on the brink of major recognition.

BILLY O'CALLAGHAN
The Irish Examiner
McLaughlin's writing is so captivating and visual that you are instantly in the story from the first paragraph. She knows just the right amount of information to give, almost frustrating us with the unknowns, but providing enough suggestions and clues to keep us going ... McLaughlin conveys so much with so little.

SOPHIE GORMAN
The Irish Independent
Through her acute and thoughtful take on issues of truth-telling, McLaughlin reminds us that the novel remains a good mode to investigate our relationship to truth, in part because as a made-up form it remains flexible in its idea of truth. Being and seeming are both put brilliantly in question in this moving and quietly uplifting book.

LARA FEIGEL
The Guardian
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Danielle McLaughlin’s debut novel The Art of Falling is published in January 2021 by Random House in the US and in February 2021 by John Murray in the UK and Ireland. Danielle's stories have … Read more

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Review by Lara Feigel, The Guardian

Through her acute and thoughtful take on issues of truth-telling, McLaughlin reminds us that the novel remains a good mode to investigate our relationship to truth, in part because as a made-up form it remains flexible in its idea of truth. The opening sentence of the novel is the motto from Jennifer’s school: “To be […]

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