With public voting finishing over the weekend, the nominated authors and publishers in this years Irish Book Awards are no doubt starting to feel a little anxious about their chances.
IPN will report the winners as soon as they are announced on the night and would like to take this chance to wish the best of luck to all nominees.
Any predictions? Fire them into the comments!
Penguin Ireland was the big winner in yesterday’s announcement of the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Shortlists. The company received a total of 10 nominations (and John Murray, its sister imprint another) twice that of any of its rivals.
The variety of Irish author’s nominated was impressive with Sebastian Barry, Neil Jordan, Derek Landy, Benjamin Black and Alan Glynn all nominated as well as Orla Tinsley, comedian Des Bishop, radio presenter Joe Duffy, award-winning jockey Tony McCoy, scriptwriter/director John Butler and Irish rugby player Donncha O’Callaghan.
Transworld Ireland, Gill & McMillan, HarperCollins and Pan Macmillan all garnered five nominations with the Hachette group of companies pulling in five as well. Random House gained four, Simon & Schuster three.
Smaller publishers also did well with Liberties Press gaining one nomination in the Ireland Am Irish Crime Fiction Book of the Year for Absolute Zero Cool by Declan Burke and Adam’s World of Wonders by Benji Bennett from Adam’s Printing Press joining the Junior section of the Specsavers Irish Children’s Book of the Year.
O’Brien Press, who recently acquired Brandon, gained three nominations, Mercier Press two as did Faber & Faber and Poolbeg with Granta, Atlantic, Andersen Press and Cosair gaining one each.
Public voting for the awards has now started and can be completed online, here. The winners will be announced at an awards dinner in the Concert Hall of the Royal Dublin Society on 17 November.
The Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year
Solace by Belinda McKeon (Picador)
On Canaan’s Side by Sebastian Barry (Faber)
The Cold Eye of Heaven by Christine Dwyer Hickey (Atlantic)
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry (Random House)
The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright (Random House)
Mistaken by Neil Jordan (John Murray)
RTÉ Radio 1’s The John Murray Show Listeners’ Choice Award:
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Corsair)
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt (Granta)
How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran (Ebury)
How the Light Gets in by Mary McEvoy (Hachette Ireland)
The Club by Christy O’Connor (Penguin Ireland)
My Dad was Nearly James Bond by Des Bishop (Penguin Ireland)
The Ireland AM Irish Crime Fiction Book of the Year:
A Death in Summer by Benjamin Black (Mantle)
The Bloody Meadow by William Ryan (Mantle)
Bloodland by Alan Glynn (Faber)
The Reckoning by Jane Casey (Ebury)
Taboo by Casey Hill (Simon & Schuster)
Absolute Zero Cool by Declan Burke (Liberties Press)
The Argosy Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year:
How Ireland Really Went Bust by Matt Cooper (Penguin Ireland)
Easy Meals by Rachel Allen (Collins)
Circles Around the Sun by Molly McCloskey (Penguin Ireland)
Moscow, December 25, 1991 by Conor O’Clery (Transworld Ireland)
Just Joe: My Autobiography by Joe Duffy (Transworld Ireland)
Anglo Republic by Simon Carswell (Penguin Ireland)
Eason Irish Popular Fiction Book of the Year:
The Time of my Life by Cecilia Ahern (HarperCollins)
All For You by Sheila O’Flanagan (Headline)
Me and My Sisters by Sinead Moriarty (Penguin Ireland)
Love and Marriage by Patricia Scanlan (Transworld Ireland)
NAMA Mia! by Ross O’Carroll Kelly (Penguin Ireland)
The Pink Ladies Club by Emma Hannigan (Poolbeg Press)
Irish Sports Book of the Year:
My Autobiography by A P McCoy (Orion)
Engage: The Fall and Rise of Matt Hampson by Paul Kimmage (Simon & Schuster)
Walk On: My Life in Red by Ronnie Whelan and Tommy Conlon (Simon & Schuster)
A Parish Far from Home by Philip O’Connor (Gill & Macmillan)
Joking Apart: My Autobiography by Donncha O’Callaghan (Transworld Ireland)
Inside the Peloton by Nicolas Roche (Transworld Ireland)
Sunday Independent Best Irish Newcomer of the Year:
The Tenderloin by John Butler (Picador)
Solace by Belinda McKeon (Picador)
The Better Half by Sarah Harte (Penguin Ireland)
The Lingerie Designer by Siobhan McKenna (Poolbeg Press)
Salty Baby by Orla Tinsley (Hachette Ireland)
My Dad was Nearly James Bond by Des Bishop (Penguin Ireland)
International Education Services Best Irish Published Book of the Year:
Catherine’s Family Kitchen by Catherine Fulvio (Gill & Macmillan)
Make Bake Love by Lilly Higgins (Gill & Macmillan)
Revolution by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc (Mercier)
The Other Ireland by Mary Jones (Gill & Macmillan)
Connemara: A Little Gaelic Kingdom by Tim Robinson (Penguin Ireland)
Gorgeous to Go by Aisling McDermott (Gill & Macmillan)
Specsavers Irish Children’s Book of the Year:
Junior:
Adam’s World of Wonders by Benji Bennett (Adams Printing Press)
The Lonely Beast by Chris Judge (Andersen Press)
Sally Go Round the Stars by Sarah Webb and Steve McCarthy with Claire Ranson (O’Brien Press)
Stuck by Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins Childrens)
Marco Moves In by Gerry Boland (O’Brien Press)
Senior:
The Saga of Larten Crepsley: Ocean of Blood by Darren Shan (HarperCollins Childrens)
Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer by Derek Landy (HarperCollins Childrens)
And For Your Information… by Denise Deegan (Hachette)
Arthur Quinn and the World Serpent by Alan Early (Mercier)
The Real Rebecca by Anna Carey (O’Brien)
Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award
Seamus Heaney
Recent IES Irish Published Book Of The Year Winner at the Irish Book Awards, Donal Skehan appeared on Sunshine 106.8FM this week speaking with Sean Ashmore who was sitting in for Lynsey Dolan from Dublin’s Talking, the interview is below:
Donal Skehan on Sunshine 106.8FM
You can buy Donal’s first book here and pre-order his forthcoming title here
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Ryan Tubridy has stormed into the Irish Top Ten with his first book, JFK In Ireland: Four Days That Changed A President.
The radio and TV star who was nominated for an Irish Book Award on the day his book was released, saw sales of some 1,116 units in less than a week.
The sales see him at number two in the hardback non-fiction charts beaten only by Jamie Oliver’s 30 Minute Meals.
The Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards has announced the shortlist for the Irish Book of the Decade.
The public has been invited to vote for their favourite from what is a broad list containing literary fiction, commercial fiction, memoir and autobiography as well as on-fiction, adult’s and children’s titles.
The title with the most votes by the close of voting on May 28th will be awarded a special Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Irish Book Of the Decade trophy.
The full list is below:
PS I Love You, Cecelia Ahern
The Sea, John Banville
The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry
A Long Long Way, Sebastian Barry
There Are Little Kingdoms, Kevin Barry
Havoc in Its Third Year, Ronan Bennett
Heart and Soul, Maeve Binchy
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
The Lovers, John Connolly
It’s a Long Way from Penny Apples, Bill Cullen
Bog Child, Siobhan Dowd
Paula Spencer, Roddy Doyle
Tatty, Christine Dwyer Hickey
The Stolen Village, Des Ekin
The Gathering, Anne Enright
Judging Dev, Diarmaid Ferriter
In the Woods, Tana French
The Speckled People, Hugo Hamilton
Foolish Mortals, Jennifer Johnston
Keane, Roy Keane
Walk the Blue Fields, Claire Keegan
Lessons in Heartbreak, Cathy Kelly
With My Lazy Eye, Julia Kelly
This Charming Man, Marian Keyes
Tenderwire, Claire Kilroy
Skulduggery Pleasant, Derek Landy
Molly Fox’s Birthday, Dirdre Madden
Winterwood, Patrick McCabe
Let The Great World Spin, Colm McCann
The Builders, Frank/Cathy McDonald/Sheridan
Memoir, John McGahern
That They May Face The Rising Sun, John McGahern
Back From The Brink, Paul McGrath
The Pope’s Children, David McWillians
A Secret History of the IRA, Ed Moloney
In the Forest, Edna O’Brien
Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade, Ross O’Carroll Kelly
Star of the Sea, Jospeh O’Connor
Stepping Stones, Dennis/Seamus O’Driscol/Heaney
Yours Faithfully, Sheila O’Flanagan
Netherland, Joseph O’Neill
The Truth Commissioner, David Parks
Connemara: Listening to the Wind, Tim Robinson
Forgive and Forget, Patricia Scanlan
The Parish, Alice Taylor
The New Policeman, Kate Thompson
Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín
The Master, Colm Tóibín
The Story of Lucy Gault, William Trevor
The Irish Book Awards has signed a new headline sponsor with Irish semi-state company, Bord Gáis Energy. The company is to sponsor the event for three years starting in 2010.
The Awards will now take place in November and submissions are open until the closing date of 30th September 2010.
As part of the deal Bord Gáis Energy will launch a nationwide reading promotion in April 2010.
The Irish Book Awards will be unaffected by the collapse of Hughes & Hughes according to IBA administrator, Bert Wright. The bookshop chain, which entered receivership on Friday 26th February, had been one of the event’s sponsors.
A new headline sponsor for the Awards will be announced later this year.
The Irish Book Awards have announced a new Book Of The Decade Award and the moving of the full awards to November.
The Book Of The Decade Award is open now for nomination now and will run as follows
Publishers must submit eligible titles by 31st January 2010
A 50-title longlist will then be selected by a panel of experts from the Irish Literary Academy
From April 12th to May 21st the longlist will be promoted in bookstores and libraries
The winning title will be chosen by a public poll conducted via the Irish Book Awards website.
The winning title will be announced on 1st June
Submissions for the award can be for fiction (including Young Adult children’s books) or narrative non-fiction (excluding manuals, picture books, myths & legends and anthologies). Books must have been been published between 1st January 2000 and 31st December 2009. The Author must be Irish. Each publisher can submit up to 12 titles for consideration.
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