Bullaun Press Wins Republic of Consciousness Prize

Irish publisher Bullaun Press has won the Republic of Consciousness prize for small presses with the book There’s a Monster Behind the Door by Gaëlle Bélem, translated from French by Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia Saint-Loubert.

The novel, which is also longlisted for this year’s International Booker prize, is set in the 1980s in the French overseas department of Réunion Island, where Bélem was born. The book is “a compact, comic tour-de-force”, said judge Jude Cook. “It interrogates postcolonial legacies, domestic abuse and a young girl’s rite of passage into adulthood with the lightest of touches.”

Read the full Irish Times article by Martin Doyle here!