Michael Magee

Biography

Michael Magee is from Belfast. His debut novel, Close to Home, was published in 2023, and translated into nine languages. It won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Nero Debut Novel Award, the John McGahern Prize, and was named the Waterstones Irish book of the Year 2023. 

In 2024, Michael was announced as the Writer in Residence at Festival America, Paris, and in 2025 he was announced as the inaugural Irish Writing Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. 

In 2027, a four-part limited tv series based on Close to Home will be broadcast on Channel 4, which he has written the screenplay for and executive produced.