'Roisín O'Donnell breaks the bounds of the short story... O'Donnell has innovated with a texture and depth not often encountered in the short form.' - The Sunday Independent
Author Roisín O’Donnell, photographed by Barry Cronin
Roisín O'Donnell is an award-winning Irish author.
Roisín is an award-winning Irish author. Her short story collection Wild Quiet was published in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Kate O’Brien Award and longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize. Her short stories have been published in The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times and many other places, and have featured on RTÉ Radio. She won the An Post Irish Book Award for Short Story of the Year in 2018, and was shortlisted for the same prize in 2022. Her first novel Nesting was published in January 2025; it became an instant Sunday Times Bestseller, and was long-listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Roisin was listed as one of the Observer’s Ten Best New Novelists of 2025. Donal Ryan described Nesting as ‘one of the best and most important novels of our time,’ while the Irish Independent declared it ‘A novel that truly matters.’ Nesting won the An Post Irish Book Award for Novel of the Year 2025.