Padraig Regan wins the Clarissa Luard Award
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We are thrilled that Padraig Regan has won the Clarissa Luard Award.
The Clarissa Luard Award was founded in 2005 by Arts Council England, in memory of a much-loved literature officer, Clarissa Luard. The award is worth £10,000 and it is awarded by nomination of the winner of the £40,000 David Cohen Prize for Literature. Colm Tóibín is the 2021 winner of the David Cohen Prize for Literature and selected Padraig Regan to receive the award.
Padraig Regan is the author of two pamphlets, Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real (Emma Press, 2017) and Delicious (Lifeboat, 2016). In 2015, they were a recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, and in 2020 they were awarded the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Prize. They hold a PhD from the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast, where they are currently one of the Ciaran Carson Writing and the City Fellows for 2021.
Padraig said: “I am honoured to be selected as the recipient of this year’s Clarissa Luard Award, and deeply grateful to Colm Tóibín for nominating me. To have one’s work recognised by a writer one admires is always encouraging, and this is especially true of a writer like Colm, whose body of work has made it easier for younger queer writers like myself to find their place within Irish literary traditions.”
Padraig Regan’s first book Some Integrity will be published by Carcanet in January 2022.