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# literary

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# winner
Mike McCormack's 'brave, challenging' book Solar Bones wins €100k Dublin Literary Award
McCormack was nominated alongside writers like Eimear McBride, Han Kang and Elizabeth Strout.
# lit festival
These Waterford teens have set up Ireland's first youth-run literary festival
We talked to them about how they did it.
# hennessy awards
An award-winning short story before bedtime: The Taking of Mrs Kennedy
Read the winner of the Emerging Fiction category in this year’s Hennessy Literary Awards.
# Book Awards
Seven Irish authors make the longlist for €100,000 Dublin literary prize
Books from John Banville, Edna O’Brien and Anne Enright make the list.
# literary
These 7 Irish novels have been nominated for the world's most valuable literary prize
160 books were nominated by libraries in 118 cities and 44 countries worldwide.
# novel quiz
Can You Fill In The Words In These Literary Sex Scenes?
How well do you know bad sex writing? Test yourself.
# hay festival
The 'Woodstock of the mind' is visiting Ireland next week
And Marian Keyes will be there.
# saints and scholars
Arts Council announce nominees for new Irish fiction laureate award
The winner will receive €150,000 over three years and is set to be announced in January next year.
# Literature
Kevin Barry’s City of Bohane wins the prestigious IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award
Kevin Barry is the third Irish author to win the coveted €100,000 literary prize, taking up good company with previous winners Colm Tóibín and Colum McCann
# get reading
Will Self and Hilary Mantel make Booker prize shortlist
The shortlist contains more new writers and debut novels than in previous years. Have you read any of them?