My Interview with Booker Prize Winner Anna Burns

December 15, 2018December 16, 2018 / Paul McVeigh Writer / Leave a comment

Anna Burns: The Booker winner on why she is unable to write

She went from poverty to bestseller status with ‘Milkman’. Now, chronic pain prevents her from writing.

My interview with The Man Booker Prize-winner Anna Burns is up on Irish Times Books today.

In it, she reveals to me her struggle with constant pain and her fears about ever being able to write again.

Read My 2 George Saunders Interviews

October 18, 2017 / Paul McVeigh Writer / Leave a comment

Congratulations to George Saunders on winning the Man Booker Prize for his debut novel Lincoln in the Bardo.

I’ve been lucky enough to have interviewed George twice and was especially honoured to share the stage with him this year at the BBC 3 Free Thinking Festival.

My first interview with him was on the day he won The Folio Prize and the second time was recently on a promotional tour of the UK and Ireland for the release of his award-winning novel.

I hope you enjoy them.

Credit: Paul McVeigh – taken in London before his Folio Prize win

Interview with Booker Shortlisted George Saunders

September 13, 2017September 13, 2017 / Paul McVeigh Writer / Leave a comment

George Saunders has been shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. I was lucky enough to interview George a couple of years ago. It was an amazing experience and a real ‘moment’ in my writing career.

George Saunders (c) Paul McVeigh

Recently I got to sit on a panel with for BBC Radio 3 thanks to New Writing North & Word Factory. We talked about the short story and read some of our work.

George was up for another interview that day which we did thanks to Bloomsbury Books. You can read it over at The Irish Times where George talks about his debut novel, writing, Trump and his wife’s upcoming novel. I hope you enjoy it.