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Sally Rooney, Lynn Ruane, Emilie Pine, Liz Nugent, Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen led a group of award-winning female-dominated authors at the Irish Post's An Post Irish Book Awards on Tuesday night.
Rooney won the prestigious Novel of the Year award for his second book, Normal People, a full-blown love story. Anne Enright in her review of the Irish Times called "superb". He has ranked at the top of a list including the winner of the Man Booker Award, Milkman, Anna Burns, and Donal Ryan's From a Low and Quiet Sea, with whom he shared a waiting list and a Costa Novel of the year shortlsting. On Thursday, Rooney discovers whether she has also won the Waterstones Book of the Year award. His novel is also to be suitable for BBC TV by Lenny Abrahamson.
Senator Lynn Ruane won the non-fiction year book award from People Like Me, Irish Times commentator Ivana Bacik called a "convincing memoir" about his Tallaght circular trip to Trinity College and Oireachtas.
Liz Nugent won a rare double success, winning both the Crime Fiction Book of the Year and the Ryan Tubridy Show's Best Listener Award for Superficial, his third best-seller.
The importance of being Aisling by Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen was a clear winner of the fiction book of the year, after repeating the phenomenal success of their debut album, Oh My God, What A Complete Aisling. On the other hand, few people would have predicted the enormous commercial success of The cow's book John Connell (about the author's return to the family farm) and Personal notes Emilie Pine (a deeply personal and honest collection of essays by a UCD scholar), winners of the Popular Book of the Year and the Newcomer of the Year respectively.
Maria Dickenson, Chair of the Awards Committee, said, "They are outstanding winners. This demonstrates the absolute scope of the quality of writing that we have in Ireland, in all genres. It's also nice to see so many women writers win honors this year. Many of them, including Emilie Pine, Sarah Webb, Lynn Ruane, Cora Staunton, and Sally Rooney, all write about what it means to be a modern woman in contemporary Ireland, and it is striking that these authors have used the art of stories in such an honest and honest manner. "
The awards ceremony was held in Dublin at the Clayton Hotel, Burlington Road, and brought together Ireland's greatest writers, publishers, booksellers and media personalities.
Poet Thomas Kinsella received the Bob Hughes Award of Excellence for all of his accomplishments, while a special award was presented to the family of author Emma Hannigan, who died this year. year.
More than 100,000 votes were collected to select the winners, almost double the total of last year. The public can vote for the whole of his year book of the An Post on irishbookawards
John Crowley, Donál Ó Drisceoil, Mike Murphy and John Borgonovo won the title for Atlas of the Irish Revolution.
The highlights of the awards will be broadcast on RTÉ One at 10:15 pm on Thursday, November 29th.
Complete list of winners
Novel of the year
The normal people of Sally Rooney (Faber & Faber)
Fiction book of the year
People Like Me by Lynn Ruane (Gill Books)
Popular fiction book of the year
The importance of being with Aison by Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen (Gill Books)
Popular book of the year non-fiction
The Book of the Cow by John Connell (Granta Books)
Newcomer of the year
Notes to Self by Emilie Pine (Tramp Press)
Fiction book on the crime of the year
Skin Deep by Liz Nugent (Penguin Ireland)
Sports book of the year
Cora Staunton's game changer with Mary White (PRH Transworld Ireland)
Best Irish book published of the year
Lighthouses of Ireland by Roger O'Reilly (Collins Press)
Yearbook for teenagers / young adults
The weight of a thousand feathers by Brian Conaghan (Bloomsbury)
Book of the year for children (senior)
Paving the way for Sarah Webb and Lauren O'Neill (The O'Brien Press)
Children's Year Book (Junior)
The chat of Peter Donnelly's president (Gill Books)
Yearbook in the Irish language
Tuatha De Denann by Diarmuid Johnson (Leabhar Breac)
Cookbook of the year
Currabinny Cookbook by James Kavanagh and William Murray (Penguin Ireland)
Ryan Tubridy Show Audience Selection Award
Skin Deep by Liz Nugent (Penguin Ireland)
Irish poem of the year
Anniversary by Brian Kirk
Little story of the year
How to build a space rocket by Roisin O'Donnell (The Broken Spiral of RM Clarke)
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