Audrey Magee – författare

AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022'Vivid and memorable.' SARAH MOSS'Luminous.' Observer'I utterly ADORED it.' MARIAN KEYESHe handed the easel to the boatman, reaching down the pier wall towards the sea.Mr Lloyd has decided to travel to the island by boat without engine - the authentic experience.Unbeknownst to him, Mr Masson will also soon be arriving for the summer. Both will strive to encapsulate the truth of this place - one in his paintings, the other by capturing its speech, the language he hopes to preserve.But the people who live on this rock - three miles long and half-a-mile wide - have their own views on what is being recorded, what is being taken and what is given in return. Soft summer days pass, and the islanders are forced to question what they value and what they desire. As the autumn beckons, and the visitors head home, there will be a reckoning.''Beautifully written.' STELLA, The Telegraph'The Colony contains multitudes. . . with much of it just visible on the surface, like the flicker of a smile or a shark in the water.' The Times'The Colony is a novel about big, important things.' Financial Times'Beautiful, haunting and incredibly powerful book.' FÍONA SCARLETT

AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022'Vivid and memorable.' SARAH MOSS'Luminous.' Observer'I utterly ADORED it.' MARIAN KEYESHe handed the easel to the boatman, reaching down the pier wall towards the sea.Mr Lloyd has decided to travel to the island by boat without engine - the authentic experience.Unbeknownst to him, Mr Masson will also soon be arriving for the summer. Both will strive to encapsulate the truth of this place - one in his paintings, the other by capturing its speech, the language he hopes to preserve.But the people who live on this rock - three miles long and half-a-mile wide - have their own views on what is being recorded, what is being taken and what is given in return. Soft summer days pass, and the islanders are forced to question what they value and what they desire. As the autumn beckons, and the visitors head home, there will be a reckoning.''Beautifully written.' STELLA, The Telegraph'The Colony contains multitudes. . . with much of it just visible on the surface, like the flicker of a smile or a shark in the water.' The Times'The Colony is a novel about big, important things.' Financial Times'Beautiful, haunting and incredibly powerful book.' FÍONA SCARLETT

The debut novel by the author of The Colony, longlisted for the 2022 Booker PrizeA soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met. Hundreds of miles away in Berlin, the woman marries a photograph of the soldier. It is a contract of business rather than love. When the newlywed strangers finally meet, however, passion blossoms and they begin to imagine a life together under the bright promise of Nazi Germany. But as the tide of war turns and Allied enemies come ever closer, the couple find themselves facing the terrible consequences of being ordinary people stained with their small share of an extraordinary guilt...

NOMINADA AL PREMI LLIBRETER 2025CANDIDATA DEL PREMI BOOKER 2022«La prosa de Magee és sempre lluminosa, emocionant i penetrant.» The GuardianEn Lloyd, un pintor que va de baixa, decideix passar uns mesos en una illa remota de la costa irlandesa per trobar la inspiració. Però no és l''únic que hi viatja: en Masson, un lingüista francès, duu quatre anys fent una tesi sobre la singularitat del gaèlic irlandès i n''és un protector ferotge. Les dificultats que tenen per conviure l''un amb l''altre trasbalsen els habitants de l''illa, que hauran de fer-se valer davant dels prejudicis externs. Aquesta novel·la extraordinària, coral i irònica confronta el lector amb les idees preconcebudes sobre com es defineixen els llocs i les cultures. Amb uns personatges inoblidables i tendríssims, La colònia mostra els efectes devastadors de l''imperialisme, que traspassa als individus i en determina els actes. The Times — «Quin alleujament trobar una novel·la que tracti el lector com un adult, que sigui fresca sense seguir modes literàries, provocativa però no esperpèntica, idiosincràtica però totalment gratificant, des de l''originalitat estranya de les primeres pàgines fins al final.»The New York Times — «Magee se submergeix en les vides interiors dels personatges, que tenen molt a dir-se sobre les lluites de poder que tenen lloc davant seu, fins i tot si, quan no estan sols, acostumen a quedar-se en silenci.»