Best Irish writing now from women, says McCabe
The writer behind The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto praises Sharon Horgan and Derry Girls, saying literary fiction has dwindled in popularity in recent years
The greatest writing coming out of Ireland now is from female authors. That's according to Irish writer Patrick McCabe, the man behind hit novels including The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto, which were made into successful feature films.
"Sharon Horgan and Derry Girls," McCabe told the Sunday Business Post. "Those two - and the success of those two - seem to me to be almost more important than literary fiction now. They have a huge reach and they're uniquely female. Sharon Horgan's Catastrophe was astounding - its characterisation of an Irish woman in London was extraordinarily incisive. With Derry Girls [written by Irish screenwriter Lisa McGee], there's a very subtle characterisation of the secondary characters. I was very enthused by those two programmes."
