Kit de Waal

Kit de Waal writes novels, short stories and flash fiction for which she has won numerous awards. Her debut novel, My Name is Leon won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and was shortlisted for the Costa Debut Novel, the British Book Awards Debut and the Desmond Elliott Prize. In 2016, she founded the Kit de Waal Scholarship at Birkbeck University. Her monologue Imagine That was performed at The Old Vic as part of the celebration of 100 Years of Suffrage and her second novel, The Trick to Time is longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

She co-writes television with her brother Dean O’Loughlin. They have written two episodes of Sky/HBO’s series THE THIRD DAY with Dennis Kelly. Produced by Plan B. They have shows in development with Sky and Film 4.