Eimear McBride wins the 2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction

Irish writer Eimear McBride has won the 2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Orange Prize) for her debut novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing.  Although published in the UK in 2013, the US publication is not until September.

Here is an interesting account in the Guardian about McBride and the award ceremony.