# 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.

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Jun 13th 2018, 12:02 PM

# lit festival

These Waterford teens have set up Ireland's first youth-run literary festival

We talked to them about how they did it.

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Nov 5th 2017, 8:00 PM

# 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.

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Apr 1st 2017, 8:00 PM

# 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.

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Nov 21st 2016, 12:13 PM

# 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.

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Nov 9th 2015, 11:00 AM

# novel quiz

Can You Fill In The Words In These Literary Sex Scenes?

How well do you know bad sex writing? Test yourself.

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Sep 24th 2015, 1:09 PM

# hay festival

The 'Woodstock of the mind' is visiting Ireland next week

And Marian Keyes will be there.

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Jun 21st 2015, 10:30 AM

# 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.

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Oct 20th 2014, 1:35 PM

# 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

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Jun 6th 2013, 8:38 PM

# 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?

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Sep 11th 2012, 12:30 PM