Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award
The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award is an annual award for Irish authors of fiction, established in 1995. It was previously known as the Kerry Ingredients Book of the Year Award (1995–2000),[1] the Kerry Ingredients Irish Fiction Award (2001–2002), and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award (2003–2011).
The winner of the prize is announced in May/June each year at the opening ceremony of the Listowel Writers' Week in County Kerry.[2]
The prize is sponsored by the food group Kerry Group, and is the largest (currently €20,000)[3][4] monetary prize for fiction available solely to Irish authors.[5]
Winners and shortlists
1995–2011
| Year | Author | Work | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Philip Casey | The Fabulists | [1] |
| 1996 | Emer Martin | Breakfast in Babylon | [1] |
| 1997 | Deirdre Madden | One by One in the Darkness | [6] |
| 1998 | John Banville | The Untouchable | [7] |
| 1999 | J. M. O'Neill | Bennett & Company | [8] |
| 2000 | Michael Collins | The Keepers of Truth | [9] |
| 2001 | Anne Barnett | The Largest Baby in Ireland After the Famine | [10] |
| 2002 | John McGahern | That They May Face the Rising Sun | [11] |
| 2003 | William Trevor | The Story of Lucy Gault | [12] |
| 2004 | Gerard Donovan | Schopenhauer's Telescope | [13] |
| 2005 | Neil Jordan | Shade | [13] |
| 2006 | Sebastian Barry | A Long Long Way | [13] |
| 2007 | Roddy Doyle | Paula Spencer | [13] |
| 2008 | Anne Enright | The Gathering | [13] |
| 2009 | Joseph O'Neill | Netherland | [14] |
| 2010 | John Banville | The Infinities | [15] |
| 2011 | Neil Jordan | Mistaken | [5] |
2012–2024
Blue Ribbon (
) = winner
| Year | Person | Book | Result | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Christine Dwyer Hickey | The Cold Eye of Heaven | Won | [16] |
| Kevin Barry | City of Bohane | Finalist | ||
| Anne Enright | The Forgotten Waltz | Finalist | ||
| Carlo Gébler | The Dead Eight | Finalist | ||
| Belinda McKeon | Solace | Finalist | ||
| 2013 | Gavin Corbett | This Is the Way | Won | [17] |
| Lucy Caldwell | All the Beggars Riding | Finalist | ||
| Claire Kilroy | The Devil I Know | Finalist | ||
| Kathleen MacMahon | This Is How It Ends | Finalist | ||
| Thomas O'Malley | This Magnificent Desolation | Finalist | ||
| 2014 | Eimear McBride | A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing | Won | [18] |
| Deirdre Madden | Time Present & Time Past | Finalist | ||
| Colum McCann | Transatlantic | Finalist | ||
| Frank McGuinness | Arimathea | Finalist | ||
| Donal Ryan | The Thing About December | Finalist | ||
| 2015 | Eoin McNamee | Blue Is the Night | Won | [19] |
| David Butler | City of Dis | Finalist | ||
| Nuala Ní Chonchúir | The Closet of Savage Mementos | Finalist | ||
| Patrick O'Keeffe | The Visitors | Finalist | ||
| Eibhear Walshe | The Diary of Mary Travers | Finalist | ||
| 2016 | Anne Enright | The Green Road | Won | [20] |
| John Banville | The Blue Guitar | Finalist | ||
| Kevin Barry | Beatlebone | Finalist | ||
| Austin Duffy | This Living and Immortal Thing | Finalist | ||
| Edna O'Brien | The Little Red Chairs | Finalist | ||
| 2017 | Kit de Waal | My Name Is Leon (Viking) | Won | [21] |
| Emma Donoghue | The Wonder | Finalist | ||
| Neil Hegarty | Inch Levels | Finalist | ||
| Mike McCormack | Solar Bones | Finalist | ||
| Conor O'Callaghan | Nothing on Earth | Finalist | ||
| 2018 | Paul Lynch | Grace (Oneworld) | Won | [22] |
| Lisa Harding | Harvesting | Finalist | ||
| Frank McGuiness | The Woodcutter and His Family | Finalist | ||
| Bernard McLaverty | Midwinter Break | Finalist | ||
| Sally Rooney | Conversations with Friends | Finalist | ||
| 2019 | David Park | Travelling in a Strange Land (Bloomsbury) | Won | [23] |
| John Boyne | Ladder to the Sky | Finalist | ||
| Jess Kidd | The Hoarder | Finalist | ||
| Emer Martin | The Cruelty Men | Finalist | ||
| Sally Rooney | Normal People | Finalist | ||
| 2020 | Edna O'Brien | Girl | Won | [24] |
| Kevin Barry | Nightboat to Tangier | Finalist | [25][26] | |
| Mary Costello | The River Capture | Finalist | ||
| Rónán Hession | Leonard and Hungry Paul | Finalist | ||
| Joseph O'Connor | Shadowplay | |||
| 2021[27] | Anakana Schofield | Bina (Fleet) | Won | [28] |
| Niamh Campbell | This Happy | Finalist | ||
| Rob Doyle | Threshold | Finalist | ||
| Adrian Duncan | A Sabbatical in Leipzig | Finalist | ||
| Laura McKenna | Words to Shape My Name | Finalist | ||
| 2022[29] | Claire Keegan | Small Things Like These (Grove Press) | Won | |
| Jan Carson | The Raptures | Finalist | ||
| Lisa Harding | Bright Burning Things | Finalist | ||
| Nuala O'Connor | Nora | Finalist | ||
| Kevin Power | White City | Finalist | ||
| 2023[30] | Aingeala Flannery | These Amusements[31] | Won | |
| Anya Bergman | The Witches of Vardo | Finalist | ||
| Adrian Duncan | The Geometer Lobachevsky | Finalist | ||
| Louise Kennedy | Trespasses | Finalist | ||
| Audrey Magee | The Colony | Finalist | ||
| 2024[3] | Darragh McKeon | Remembrance Sunday | Won | |
| Sebastian Barry | Old God's Time | Finalist | ||
| Naoise Dolan | The Happy Couple | Finalist | ||
| Anne Enright | The Wren, The Wren | Finalist | ||
| Paul Murray | Bee Sting | Finalist | ||
| 2025[32] | Niall Williams | Time of The Child | Won | |
| Christine Dwyer Hickey | Our London Lives | Finalist | ||
| Joseph O'Connor | The Ghosts of Rome | Finalist | ||
| Donal Ryan | Heart, Be At Peace | Finalist | ||
| Colm Tóibín | Long Island | Finalist |
References
- 1 2 3 Laurie Mann. "AwardWeb: Kerry Ingredients Book of the Year Award". AwardWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
- ↑ "Official Opening of the 40th Anniversary Festival". Listowel Writers' Week. Archived from the original on 8 August 2011. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
- 1 2 Kerry.com website, Kerry Celebrates 30 Year Partnership with Listowel Writers’ Week, article dated 19 June, 2024
- ↑ Doyle, Martin (6 January 2022). "Kate O'Brien Award shortlist revealed; Kerry Group raises Irish novel prize to €20,000". The Irish Times. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- 1 2 Cían Nihill (2 June 2011). "Neil Jordan wins major literary award for second time". The Irish Times. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
- ↑ "Painting with words: Irish author Deirdre Madden can think of no occupation that she would like better". The Sofia Echo. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
- ↑ John Boland (23 May 1998). "A thumping good read". The Irish Times. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
- ↑ "A late award". The Irish Times. 6 June 1999. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
- ↑ "Writers' festival opens". The Irish Times. 6 June 2000. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
- ↑ "Newcomer wins Irish fiction award". The Irish Times. 5 May 2001. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
- ↑ "McGahern wins Irish Fiction Award". The Irish Times. 5 May 2002. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
- ↑ "William Trevor wins Listowel fiction award". The Irish Times. 5 May 2003. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award – Literary Competitions – 39th Listowel Writers' Week 2009". Listowel Writers' Week. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
- ↑ "Joseph O'Neill's Netherland wins Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award 2009". Normans Media Ltd. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
- ↑ "John Banville Wins Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award 2010 at Listowel Writers' Week". Irish Publishing News. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
- ↑ "Shortlist announced for Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year". 11 April 2012. Archived from the original on 26 July 2021. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
- ↑ Ann Lucey (30 May 2013). "Corbett wins Irish Novel of the Year award at Listowel". The Irish Times. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
- ↑ Martin Doyle (28 May 2014). "Eimear McBride wins €15,000 Kerry Group Irish novel of the year award". The Irish Times. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
- ↑ Martin Doyle (27 May 2015). "Eoin McNamee's Blue is the Night wins €15,000 Kerry Group Irish Novel of Year Award". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ↑ Martin Doyle (2 June 2016). "Anne Enright's The Green Road wins Kerry Group Novel of the Year Award". The Irish Times. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
- ↑ Martin Doyle (1 June 2017). "My Name is Leon wins Irish Novel of the Year Award". The Irish Times. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
- ↑ Martin Doyle (30 May 2018). "'Grace' by Paul Lynch wins Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award". The Irish Times. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ↑ Martin Doyle (29 May 2019). "Travelling in a Strange Land by David Park wins award at Listowel Writers' Week". The Irish Times. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
- ↑ Martin Doyle (27 May 2020). "Edna O'Brien wins Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award for Girl". The Irish Times. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
- ↑ kimbofo (9 May 2020). "The 2020 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award shortlist". Reading Matters. Retrieved 11 October 2024.
- ↑ Admin, Writing IE (8 May 2020). "Shortlist Announced for Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2020". Writing.ie. Retrieved 11 October 2024.
- ↑ Doyle, Martin (8 April 2021). "Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2021: Two first-time novelists on shortlist". The Irish Times. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ↑ Doyle, Martin (2 June 2021). "Anakana Schofield wins Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award for Bina". The Irish Times. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ↑ Doyle, Martin (2 June 2022). "Claire Keegan and Martina Evans win Listowel Writers Week novel and poetry prizes". The Irish Times. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ↑ Library Thing website, Kerry Group Irish novel of the Year Award 2023
- ↑ RTE website, Aingeala Flannery winds Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, article by Sinead Crowley dated June 1, 2023
- ↑ Kerry.com website, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year