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Children's Books Ireland launch #GiftABook campaign this Christmas.
The gift of a book in childhood can last a lifetime. But right now, there are children in Ireland who don't have their own book to read, who don't know the comfort and joythat books can bring. Children's Books Ireland want you to help them change that, by gifting the magic of reading this Christmas. Find out more about the programme here Costa Prize Shortlists 2021.
Irish poet Victoria Kennefick has been shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award with her debut collection 'Eat or we both starve'. The collection deals with sorrow and desire with “fresh urgency” and as well as “how to live in the past and not be consumed by it”, according to publisher Carcanet. Full details of all the Costa Shortlists available here.... An Post Irish Book Award Winners 2021 announced.
Beautiful World, Where Are You, the bestselling and critically acclaimed third novel by Sally Rooney, has been voted Novel of the Year at this year’s An Post Irish Book Awards. Watch the virtual ceremony and explore the winner books here... Damon Galgut wins The Booker Prize with the novel 'The Promise'
The South African writer was revealed as the winner of the literary prize in a ceremony on Wednesday evening for his book The Promise. He took home the award at the third time of asking, after previously being shortlisted in 2003 and 2010. Read more... T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist announced
The T.S. Eliot Prize has just announced this year’s shortlist, with Kerry based poet Victoria Kennefick nominated for her collection 'Eat Or We Both Starve'. Each year, the award seeks to celebrate the author with the best new collection of poetry published in the UK and Ireland. Described by Andrew Motion, the former English Poet Laureate, as “the prize most poets want to win,” the prestigious award offers £25,000 to the winning poet, and £1,500 each to the those shortlisted. Susanna Clarke wins Women’s Prize for Fiction with Piranesi
Susanna Clarke has won the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction with her second novel, Piranesi, published 16 years after her bestselling debut, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Chair of judges Bernardine Evaristo presented the author with the £30,000 prize, which honours outstanding, ambitious, original fiction written in English by women, at an awards ceremony in London. Read more..... Maggie O’Farrell and Elaine Feeney announced as winners of 2021 Dalkey Literary Awards
The winners of this year’s Dalkey Literary Awards presented by Zurich have been announced by the Dalkey Book Festival. Best-selling author Maggie O’Farrell’s magnificent novel Hamnet has been announced as Novel of the Year, while Galway writer Elaine Feeney has won this year’s Emerging Writer award for her stunning debut As You Were. Read More.... Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin awarded the 2021 Pigott Poetry Prize
The winner of the annual Pigott Poetry Prize has also been announced as Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, who takes the award for her Collected Poems which was selected from a shortlist of three, by Maura Dooley and Mark Waldron. The Pigott Poetry Prize of €12,000 is Ireland’s largest monetary prize for a poetry collection by an Irish poet and is sponsored each year by Mark Pigott, KBE, Executive Chairman of PACCAR Inc. Read More.... Anakana Schofield wins Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award for Bina
The Irish-Canadian author takes the €15,000 prize for her novel BINA, which was selected from a shortlist of five novels by adjudicators Rachel Cusk and Richard Skinner. BINA, published by Fleet and Little, Brown is a provocative, feminist novel about a woman who persists in spite of the violence, injustice, and oppression that fills her world. Schofield’s previous book, Martin John, was shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize. Her debut novel, Malarky, won the Amazon First Novel Award. Read More... Children’s Books Ireland award winners revealed
A feminist retelling of the timeless legend of The Children of Lir, a queer coming-of-age story and a book of tales rooted in Traveller culture are among the winners at this year’s KPMG Children’s Books Ireland awards. The winners were announced in a ceremony hosted by broadcaster Rick O’Shea and shared online as part of the International Literature Festival Dublin. Read more... Valeria Luiselli wins €100,000 Dublin literary award for Lost Children Archive
Earlier this year, a library in Barcelona submitted a nomination for its favourite book of the year: Mexican author Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive. On Thursday, thanks to Biblioteca Vila De Gràcia, Luiselli was named winner of the world’s richest prize for a novel published in English, the €100,000 Dublin literary award. Read more..... |
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