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First awarded in 2006, the Irish Book Awards grew out of the Hughes & Hughes bookstore's Irish Novel of the Year Prize, which was inaugurated in 2003. Since 2007 the Awards have been an independent not-for-profit company funded by sponsorship. Bord Gáis Energy sponsored the awards from 2012 until 2018, when An Post took over sponsorship. [1]
The council agreed to step in and continue funding the award under the same brand name of the now-defunct company while seeking a new sponsor. [7] It was reported that the council paid €100,000 for the prize plus €80,250 in administration costs in 2015. [7] The award was subsequently renamed the International DUBLIN Literary Award in ...
Award Category Result Ref. 2021 And the Stars Were Burning Brightly: YA Book Prize: Shortlisted [17] Jhalak Prize: Children's and Young Adult Shortlisted [18] Carnegie Medal: Longlisted [20] Waterstones Children's Book Prize: Older Fiction Shortlisted [16] Branford Boase Award: Shortlisted [19] 2022 When Our Worlds Collided: Books Are My Bag ...
The Dublin-born author took home the book of the year prize and £30,000 for his fourth novel The Bee Sting.
Sally Hayden in 2024. Sally Hayden is an Irish journalist and writer. A foreign correspondent, she has reported from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda and Rwanda.Her book My Fourth Time, We Drowned, a nonfiction account of irregular migration to Europe through Libya, [1] was published in 2022 and awarded the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, [2] the 2022 Michel Déon Prize, [3] and the Overall Book of ...
O'Neill moved to New York City in 2010. Upon returning to Ireland in 2011, O'Neill began her first novel Only Ever Yours, which was published in 2014.She has since won the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year at the 2014 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards; [2] the Children's Books Ireland Eilís Dillon Award for a First Children's Book; and The Bookseller's inaugural YA Book Prize 2015. [3]
National Book Award for Translated Literature – awarded annually for a fiction or non-fiction translation from any language into English by the National Book Award National Translation Award – annual prize awarded by the American Literary Translators Association [ 2 ]
O’Brien is among the most notable authors never to win the Nobel or even the Booker Prize. Her honors did include an Irish Book Award for lifetime achievement, the PEN/Nabokov prize and the ...