Wicklow Bookstore And Two Authors Celebrate Wins At Irish Book Awards

Liz Nugent, Eimear Ryan, Claire Keegan, Peter Donnelly, Mary O’Donnell  and Moïra Fowley are among the winning authors at this year’s An Post Irish Book Awards which were held in the Convention Centre, Dublin.

The Eason Novel of the Year Award was won by Paul Murray, who is also shortlisted for The Booker Prize, while Katriona O’Sullivan claimed two prizes with Poor, winning the Bookselling Ireland Biography of the Year as well as The Last Word Listeners’ Choice Award.

 First awarded in 2006, the An Post Irish Book Awards celebrate and promote Irish writing to the widest range of readers possible. Each year it brings together a vast community passionate about books – readers, authors, booksellers, publishers and librarians – to recognise the very best of Irish writing talent.

Halfway up the Stairs in Greystones,  claimed ‘An Post Bookshop of the Year’ title.

Below is the full list of winners for the ‘An Post Irish Book Awards 2023’:

 Eason Novel of the Year

• The Bee Sting – Paul Murray (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House)

 TheJournal.ie Best Irish-Published Book of the Year

• Sunday Miscellany: A Selection 2018 - 2023 – Edited by Sarah Binchy (New Island Books)

Bookselling Ireland Biography of the Year

• Poor – Katriona O’Sullivan (Sandycove)

Cookbook of the Year

• Flavour – Mark Moriarty, photography by Cliodhna Prendergast (Gill Books)

Bookstation Lifestyle Book of the Year

• The Hike Life - Roz Purcell (Black and White Publishing)

Dubray Non-Fiction Book of the Year

• A Thread of Violence – Mark O’Connell (Granta Books)

Eason Sports Book of the Year in association with Ireland AM

• The Grass Ceiling – Eimear Ryan (Sandycove)

Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year

• Claire Keegan (Faber and Faber)

Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year

• Strange Sally Diamond - Liz Nugent (Sandycove)

Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year

• Kala – Colin Walsh (Atlantic Books)

National Book Tokens Popular Fiction Book of the Year

• My Hot Friend – Sophie White (Hachette Books Ireland)

Foras na Gaeilge Irish Language Fiction Book of the Year Award

• Imram agus Scéalta Eile – Róise Ní Bhaoill (Éabhlóid)

The Last Word Listeners’ Choice Award

• Poor – Katriona O’Sullivan (Sandycove)

New Voices: The An Post Writing Prize

• The Border / Кордон - Valeriia Shmyrova

International Education Services Teen and Young Adult Book of the Year, in honour of John Treacy

• Black and Irish: Legends, Trailblazers and Everyday Heroes – Leon Diop and Briana Fitzsimons, illustrated by Jessica Louis (Little Island Books and Black and Irish)

Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year – Junior

• The President’s Dog – Peter Donnelly (Gill Books)

Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year – Senior

• I Am The Wind: Irish Poems for Children Everywhere – Edited by Lucinda Jacob and Sarah Webb, illustrated by Ashwin Chacko (Little Island Books)

Writing.ie Short Story of the Year

• Such A Pretty Face – Moïra Fowley (Eyes Guts Throat Bones, Orion)

Listowel Writers’ Week Poem of the Year

• Vectors in Kabul – Mary O’Donnell

An Post Bookshop of the Year

• Halfway up the Stairs – Greystones, Co. Wicklow