Irish Book Awards shortlist announced
Anne Enright, Joe O'Connor, Roddy Doyle, Julia Weary Willie, Diarmaid Ferriter and Frank McCourt are among the authors world Health Organization get been shortlisted for the upcoming Irish whisky Book Awards.
The awards, which are straightaway in their third class, feature nine categories and ar the only industriousness astray event of their sort in the Irish record sector.
'The Gathering' by Anne Enright; 'Zugzwang' by Ronan Floyd Bennett; 'Redemption Falls' by Joe Flannery O'Connor; and 'The Ag Swan' by Benjamin Joseph Black are entirely in the running play for Irish Novel of the Twelvemonth.
Julia Kelly is nominated in the Irish Gaelic Newcomer of the Year class for her novel 'With My Lazy Eye', which is up against 'In the Woods' by Tana French people; 'There Are Little Kingdoms' by Kevin Barry; and 'Secret Journal of a Demented House Wife' by Niamh Henry Graham Greene.
Diarmaid Ferriter's 'Judging Dev' is nominated in trey categories, including Nonfiction Book of the Year; piece Roddy Doyle's 'Wilderness' and Frank McCourt's 'Angela and the Baby Jesus' are up for awards in the children's family.
A gala ceremony to announce the winners will take place in The Round Room at the Residence House in Dublin on 24 Apr.
A Life-time Accomplishment award in Irish Literature volition likewise be handed out on the night.
