![]() ![]() Described as ‘an intelligent, delicately told tale of love under military rule’ by judge Selma Dabbagh, Trespasses has already won Irish Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and Nibbies Debut Novel of the Year as well as being shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction.Ĭiarán Folan won the £2,000 ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award for his story, A Day. Louise Kennedy won the £4,000 McKitterick Prize for Trespasses (Bloomsbury Publishing) at the Society of Authors awards ceremony in Southwark Cathedral, London, last night. Louise Kennedy, recently shortlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize For Fiction, has won the Society of Authors' McKitterick Prize for her debut novel, Trespasses. Joelle Taylor is this year’s Chair of Judges for the Best Single Poems panel, and is joined by Khadijah Ibrahiim, Caroline Bird, Chris Redmond and Sue Roberts. ![]() This Embodied Knowledge by Zena Edwards The Cat Prince by Michael Pedersen Almost Certainly by Bohdan Piasecki The City Kids See the Sea by Roger Robinson And our eyes are on Europe by Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe.īernardine Evaristo is this year’s Chair of Judges for the Best Collections panel, and is joined by Kate Fox, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Andrés Ordorica and Jessica Traynor. The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection ISDAL by Susannah Dickey A Method, A Path by Rowan Evans Cane, Corn & Gully by Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa Bad Diaspora Poems by Momtaza Mehri Cowboy by Kandace Siobhan Walkerįorward Prize for Best Single Poem – Written ‘My body tells me that she’s filing for divorce’ by Kathryn Bevis Libation by Malika Booker Oh do you know the Flower Man by Kizziah Burton The Curse by Breda Spaight Fricatives by Eric Yipįorward Prize for Best Single Poem – Performed Human. The Forward Prizes are awarded in four categories: the Forward Prize for Best Collection (£10,000), the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection (£5,000), the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem – Written (£1,000), and the inaugural Forward Prize for Best Single Poem – Performed (£1,000).įorward Prize for Best Collection Self Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan A Change in the Air by Jane Clarke Ink Cloud Reader by Kit Fan My Name is Abilene by Elizabeth Sennitt Clough Irish poets Jane Clarke, Susannah Dickey, Breda Spaight and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe have made this year’s Forward Prizes shortlists, among the most coveted and influential prizes for poetry in the UK and Ireland. Joachim Schnerf, speaking for the publisher Éditions Grasset, congratulated Tóibín on the extraordinary publishing success that The Magician has enjoyed in the French language. ![]() Sinéad Mac Aodha, director of Literature Ireland, said “A writer-translator partnership of the kind that Anna and Colm share for over 30 years now is a wonderful example of how a writer’s words can be expertly carried across to a foreign language.” The prize celebrates the French language and the openness of French readers to read beyond their own rich literary culture. The prize is awarded annually by ambassadors in Ireland whose countries are involved in the Francophonie – a group of nations in which French is a first, official, or culturally significant language. ![]() The French translation of Colm Tóibín’s The Magician, published by Éditions Grasset, has been awarded the Prix des Ambassadeurs de la Francophonie 2023. You can buy it with your newspaper for just €5.99, a €5 saving. This weekend’s Irish Times Eason offer is the bestselling thriller, Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard. Reviews are Fintan O’Toole on A Thread of Violence by Mark O’Connell Adrian Frazier on Gerard O’Donovan: A Life, 1871-1942 Muiris Houston on Vital Signs: Poems of Illness and Healing by Martin Dyar Claire Hennessy on the best new YA fiction Mark Paul on This is Not America: Why Black Lives in Britain Matter by Tomiwa Owolade Edel Coffey on The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue Lucy Sweeney Byrne on A Life of One’s Own by Joanna Biggs Brigid O’Dea on Sensitive: The Power of a Thoughtful Mind in an Overwhelming World by Jenn Granneman & Anre Sólo Thomas Lordan on Adam Shatz’s Writers and Missionaries Sean Duke on Pathogenesis: How Germs Made History by Jonathan Kennedy John Walshe on I Will Be Good: A Dublin Memoir by Peig McManus Gerry Moriarty on Deniable Contact: Back-Channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland by Niall O Dochartaigh Deirdre Mulrooney on Shadows Behind the Dance by Maddy Tongue and Sally Hayden on Doro: Refugee, Hero, Champion, Survivor by Brendan Woodhouse and Doro Ģoumãňęh. In The Irish Times this Saturday, there is a Q&A with Mary O’Donoghue, whose first short story collection, The Hour After Happy Hour, has just been published and Caroline O’Donoghue writes about the love of a true friend. ![]()
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