Mary O’Malley wins Derek Walcott Prize
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Anne Enright: ‘I’m in a lull. I’m trying to recalibrate after a long decade of elder care’
Anne Enright’s time looking after her parents has given the Booker winner an opportunity to take stock, both personally and creatively
Elizabeth Day: ‘I felt like a total failure – divorced, single at 39 and in the trenches of IVF’
Author and host of the How to Fail podcast on growing up in Northern Ireland, writing a column when she was 12, and her new novel, One of Us
Children’s Booker Prize launched
Books newsletter: Circling the Square; Listowel curator appointed; Ballyscullion Park Book Festival; Bridport Prize for Irish writer
Richard Hawley at 3Olympia review: Love songs, with strings attached
Concert for Coles Corner album’s 20th anniversary is a showcase for Sheffield band’s versatility and virtuosity
Irish Book Awards: Brenda Fricker, Leo Varadkar, Manchán Magan and Andy Farrell shortlisted
Awards ‘remain the cornerstone of Ireland’s literary calendar’ and will be held on November 27th in Dublin
Chloe Michelle Howarth: ‘I saw minimal queer representation growing up, so I didn’t realise it was an option’
The author on her new novel being compared to Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, growing up in west Cork, and the enduring influence of The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides had on her
Niamh Connolly signs six-figure deal
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Anna McPartlin: ‘The Kerry Babies case marked the moment Irish women had enough of the patriarchy’
The crimewriter on her latest novel, The Silent Ones; how TV work helps pay the bills; and her love of David Brent
New Louise Kennedy novel out next year
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Nobel Prize in Literature 2025: Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins
The prize, considered the most prestigious literary prize in the world, is worth almost €1 million and has had four Irish winners in the past
Horrible Histories author Terry Deary: ‘If you think the present is horrible then you should try living even 70 years ago’
Deary talks about his new book for adults, rebellion, the cushie present day, and ‘wanting to create something worthwhile’
John Banville: ‘You cannot censor me. They would try it now with all this wokeist nonsense’
The author on his latest novel, Venetian Vespers, how Graham Greene treated him ‘very badly’, and his support for Israelis
Tom Cox: ‘Getting out of a journalistic mindset enabled me to write fiction I believed in’
The author on his new novel, Everything Will Swallow You; why he fears repeating himself; and being scarred by England’s defeat by Argentina at the 1986 World Cup
John Boyne wins novel of the year in France
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