She has been shortlisted and longlisted for several prizes, including The Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize and The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.

Her first novel Exciting Times had an excerpt published in The Stinging Fly by Sally Rooney and became a Sunday Times bestseller. She obtained an English degree from Trinity College Dublin in 2016 and later a Masters Degree in Victorian Literature from Oxford University.

Naoise’s debut novel EXCITING TIMES was published by W&N in the UK and by Ecco in the US in 2020, and became a Sunday Times bestseller, widely translated and optioned for TV. Naoise Dolan is a queer and autistic Irish writer born in Dublin. She writes fiction, essays, criticism and features for publications including The London Review of Books, The Guardian and Vogue. Yes, in her debut novel Exciting Times, Dubliner Naoise Dolan writes exactingly of a neurotic Irish millennial's intimacy issuesand the connections between class and sexin a way that will undoubtedly resonate with fans of Sally Rooney's ubiquitous bestseller-turned-Hulu-show Normal People. ‘The book of the summer Kept me rapt until the final page‘ THE TIMES ‘A sharp, smart, witty modern love story. In stylish, uncluttered prose, Naoise Dolan dissects the personal and financial transactions that make up a lifeand announces herself as a singular new voice. She studied at Trinity College, followed by a master’s in Victorian literature at Oxford. Politically alert, heartbreakingly raw, and dryly funny, Exciting Times is thrillingly attuned to the great freedoms and greater uncertainties of modern love. Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan 53,447 ratings, 3.26 average rating, 6,316 reviews Open Preview Exciting Times Quotes Showing 1-30 of 91 You keep describing yourself as this uniquely damaged person, when a lot of it is completely normal. Naoise Dolan is an Irish writer born in Dublin.