
Louise Kennedy’s favourite short story
- 14th January 2021
The Irish author Louise Kennedy on the short story she loves and thinks you will, too – A Scandalous Woman, by Edna O'Brien
Some of our great writers – from Elizabeth Strout to Mark Haddon – nominate what their favourite short story is, and tell us, in this intimate series, why they love it so much. You can watch the series here, with new choices every week
The Irish author Louise Kennedy on the short story she loves and thinks you will, too – A Scandalous Woman, by Edna O'Brien
The American-British author Tracy Chevalier on the short story she loves and thinks you will, too – The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson
The Irish author Caoilinn Hughes on the short story she loves and thinks you will, too – A Woman on a Roof, by Doris Lessing
The British author Lisa Blower on the short story she loves and thinks you will, too – Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
The Northern Irish author Gerry McKeague on the short story he loves and thinks you will, too – Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan
The Bangladeshi-born British writer author Tahmima Anam on the short story she loves and thinks you will, too – The Kabuliwala by Rabindranath Tagore
The literary agent Jonny Geller on the short story he loves and thinks you will, too – Gimpel the Fool, by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The American author Brian Van Reet on the short story he loves and thinks you will, too – Defender of the Faith by Philip Roth
The American author Marie-Helene Bertino on the short story she loves and thinks you will, too – Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin
The Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vásquez on the short story he loves and thinks you will, too – The South by Jorge Luis Borges