Kennys Bookshop and Art Gallery in Galway was named Bookshop of the Year, a new category designed to acknowledge the significant role played by bookshops in helping their local communities, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic. It’s been another great year for Irish literature.” I’d like to congratulate all of the winners and also the nominees in every category. We have so many promising young writers, more women writers than ever, writers representing minority and marginalised Irish communities, and this will only grow in the years to come. John Treacy, chairperson of the awards, said: “We really are so lucky to have such marvellous writers in this country. Catherine Ryan Howard’s lockdown-set hit 56 Days won Crime Fiction Book of the Year while Keith Earls, fresh from playing his part in an all-conquering Irish rugby team, won Sport Book of the Year for Fight Or Flight: My Life, My Choices.Ĭrime Fiction Book of the Year winner Catherine Ryan Howard with Newcomer of the Year winner Louise Nealon Photograph: Lorraine O’Sullivan/Patrick Bolger Photography Louise Nealon was voted Newcomer of the Year for Snowflake, ahead of a particularly strong field of debuts by Una Mannion, Fíona Scarlett, Sarah Gilmartin, Jamie O’Connell and Eimear Ryan.
Voting is now open here for Irish Book of the Year, which will be announced on RTÉ One on December 8th. The awards, which were held virtually on the RTÉ website this evening in front of a worldwide audience, attracted more than 187,500 votes from the public, up 33 per cent on 2020, weighted equally with those of an academy of 300 booksellers, librarians, authors, reviewers and journalists.
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Photograph: Lorraine O’Sullivan/ Patrick Bolger PhotographyĮmer McLysaght and Sarah Breen won Popular Fiction Book of the Year for a remarkble third time in four years for Aisling and the City, the fourth in the series and on track to be Ireland’s bestselling book of the year. Popular Fiction Book of the Year winning authors Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen. The competitive shortlist included the highly praised Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan and Colm Tóibín’s The Magician.įintan O’Toole won Non-Fiction Book of the Year for We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958, emerging from a shortlist that included fellow journalists Richard Chambers, Brian O’Donovan, Susan McKay and Derek Scally and historian Diarmaid Ferriter. 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, repeating the success of her previous novel, Normal People.
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