Ragnar Jónasson Q&A: ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd had a great impact on me’‘The truth isn’t to be found in books, not even good books, but in people who have a kind heart’Mon Jun 22 2015 - 09:43
Maria Duffy Q&A: ‘I can get a week’s work done between 1am and 7am’‘No matter what other books I write, that first one will always be very special to me’Fri Jun 19 2015 - 00:43
Mark Billingham Q&A: ‘Cops solving crimes with supernatural powers strikes me as cheating’‘I read Jaws and The Godfather back to back one summer when I was 14 and was suddenly aware of how powerful fiction could be. Also, they both had dirty bits’Wed Jun 17 2015 - 14:24
Paul McVeigh Q&A: ‘It’s ironic the two books I did the most research for I ended up not writing’‘When I read Anaïs Nin’s exposing personal enquiries into emotion and excavations of the truth, it transformed my concept of the territory of the written word’Mon Jun 15 2015 - 15:00
Glenn Patterson Q&A: ‘I will not live long enough to read the half of what I want to’'What was the first book to make an impression on me? The Bible. I had nightmares for weeks'Wed Jun 10 2015 - 15:48
Three Irish poets shortlisted for £10,000 Forward PrizeCiaran Carson, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Paul Muldoon in running for Best Collection awardTue Jun 09 2015 - 11:20
Eoin McNamee Q&A: ‘I can’t think of a good piece of funny writing which didn’t turn around and kick you in the teeth’‘When I was young I had a knack for reading things I didn’t really understand and being caught up in their slipstream. I read Brighton Rock when I was 12 or 13’Fri Jun 05 2015 - 11:06
Scottish poet wins new €1,000 Caterpillar children’s poetry prizeRead the winning poem, Don’t Think of an Elephant, by Louise GreigFri Jun 05 2015 - 09:59
Michael Longley wins Griffin International Poetry PrizeBlue Sonoma by Jane Munro is Canadian winner of prizeFri Jun 05 2015 - 09:29
Shortlist revealed for €25,000 Frank O’Connor International Short Story AwardKaren E Bender, Carys Davies, Tony Earley, Kirsty Gunn and Alejandro Zambra on shortlist for world’s richest short story prizeThu Jun 04 2015 - 18:00
Solicitor and author to be questioned over 1974 Birmingham bombings that killed 21West Midlands police want to talk to Kieran Conway about claims in his memoir, Southside Provisional, From Freedom Fighter to the Four CourtsTue Jun 02 2015 - 14:35
Melissa Hill Q&A: ‘The Secret Garden inspired my love of the mystery genre to this day’‘The majority of female mega-selling authors are all severly under-rated and dismissed as unimportant, purely because they write women’s fiction. It’s nuts’Thu May 28 2015 - 13:14
Eoin McNamee’s Blue is the Night wins €15,000 Kerry Group Irish Novel of Year AwardPaul Muldoon wins €5,000 Pigott Poetry Prize for One Thousand Things Worth Knowing at ceremony to mark opening of Listowel Writers’ WeekWed May 27 2015 - 20:00
Jenny Erpenbeck’s The End of Days wins Independent Foreign Fiction PrizePrize celebrates 25 years with first German winner since WG SebaldWed May 27 2015 - 19:45
Jenny Erpenbeck: ‘The greatest discoveries can be made just around the corner’Brought to Book Q&A: Author of The End of Days on the books and authors that have inspired herTue May 26 2015 - 08:00
Blue is the Night by Eoin McNamee is the new Irish Times Book Club choiceWin one of 12 signed copies of what author David Peace called ‘a genuine, original masterpiece’Mon May 25 2015 - 11:50
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel Q&A: ‘I wrote one of my first novels sitting up a tree’Author from Equatorial Guinea on what he reads and how he writesMon May 25 2015 - 08:00
Africa Day creative writing competition: the winning entriesThe Irish Times, in conjunction with Africa Day organisers Irish Aid, held a competition for writing about Africa by primary and secondary pupils and adults. Read what the winners wroteSun May 24 2015 - 01:00
Oliver Jeffers wins 25th CBI Book of the Year Award for Once Upon an AlphabetLouise O’Neill wins Eilís Dillon Award for a first children’s book for Only Ever YoursTue May 19 2015 - 12:30
Listen to Colm Tóibín’s talk on same-sex relationships and literatureThe Embrace of Love: Being Gay in Ireland Now, a talk the author gave yesterday at Trinity College Dublin, addressed his experience of being a gay man and gay writerFri May 15 2015 - 14:15
Dalkey Archive Press founder John O’Brien is knightedFrench ambassador honours Irish-American publisher at Dublin embassyFri May 15 2015 - 08:45
Emma Healey, Carys Bray and Claire Fuller on Desmond Elliott Prize shortlist‘There’s no age limit on being a sparkling new arrival on the literary scene’Fri May 15 2015 - 08:30
Q&A: Tom Bouman on his debt to Tana French and the importance of empathy‘It is hard to ignore the purported abandonment of narrative artifice in favour of something resembling unflinching, quotidian honesty’Wed May 06 2015 - 08:00
Roddy Doyle adds his Two Pints worth to marriage equality Yes vote campaign‘I am expressing my hope that there is a yes vote and the most useful way for me to do that is to express myself creatively’Fri May 01 2015 - 16:25
Yiyun Li is first woman to win world’s richest short story awardStory of a Chinese nanny nets £30,000 prize – click through to read A Sheltered WomanFri Apr 24 2015 - 21:30
Lisa Bickmore wins €10,000 Ballymaloe Poetry Prize with ode to love and lossRead the winning poem, Eidolon, and the others shortlisted – Fantasia on a Theme by Elvis, the exceptional Disco Jesus and the Wavering Virgins in Berlin, 2011 and Saratoga Passage, August 2014Fri Apr 24 2015 - 15:05
The Irish Times holds writing contest to mark Africa Day on May 24thAdults and children invited to submit short story or poem about African experience in either Africa or Ireland by May 8thTue Apr 21 2015 - 17:55
Gunnar Staalesen Q&A: ‘Most crime writers are very nice people, although I am not entirely sure about Chandler’‘The first books of Sjöwall & Wahlöö told me that it was possible to write the sort of crime fiction that later became known as Nordic Noir’Fri Apr 17 2015 - 16:12
Liam Neeson plays lead role in IRA sniper film dealFilm to be based on Mark Mulholland’s 'A Mad and Wonderful Thing'Thu Apr 16 2015 - 18:45
New books by Edna O’Brien and Neil Jordan, and Kevin Barry takes on John LennonSheila O’Flanagan is to make her YA debut, while Eoin Colfer tackles an adult graphic novelThu Apr 16 2015 - 17:41
Sam Eastland Q&A: The last thing I would read is something in my own genre‘I spend on average about five hours a day writing fiction. For me to then pick up a novel would be the equivalent of jogging all day and then going out for a jog to unwind’Thu Apr 16 2015 - 16:11
Julian Gough signs major book deal with PicadorInfinite, due out in autumn 2016, ‘is a serious novel that combines the plot arc of a thriller with a stream of stimulating ideas’Thu Apr 16 2015 - 09:00
The Book Quiz: Irish writers, award winners and banned booksHave you been paying attention to the latest book news? Test your memory with this week's book quizWed Apr 15 2015 - 16:00
Academy Street by Mary Costello is this month’s Irish Times Book Club choiceThis debut novel, the story of an Irish girl who emigrates from Galway to 1960s New York, won the Eason Novel of the Year prize and made Costa and EU Prize for Literature shortlistsMon Apr 06 2015 - 08:11
We need to talk about Colin Barrett: a round-up of reviews, interviews and musingsA variety of takes on Young Skins and some thoughts from the award-winning author himselfFri Mar 27 2015 - 12:07
The Book Quiz: New novels and literary lothariosThis week's book quiz tests your knowledge of the latest award winners, new releases and the eyebrow-raising private life of Georges SimenonWed Mar 25 2015 - 13:00
Louise O’Neill wins The Bookseller’s YA Book Prize for Only Ever YoursCork author’s debut is a feminist dystopian tale which satirises how young women are scrutinised for their looksMon Mar 23 2015 - 11:52
Charles Townshend wins Christopher Ewart-Biggs memorial prizeHistorian honoured for his ‘magisterial and essential’ The Republic: the Fight for Irish Independence 1918-1923Mon Mar 23 2015 - 11:15
James Carol: ‘The story comes first, then the facts’Brought to Book Q&A: Scottish author of the Jefferson Winter thriller series on the influence of Stephen King and Thomas HarrisWed Mar 18 2015 - 11:00
A Q&A with Colin Barrett, this month’s Irish Times Book Club author‘I would have loved to have read the Game of Thrones series when I was around 14 or so. I would have definitely thought they were the greatest books ever written’Fri Mar 13 2015 - 15:15
The Book Quiz: award-winning Irish authorsThis week's quiz tests your literary knowledge of some of the country's most celebrated authors, from Lady Gregory and Edna O'Brien to Colin Barrett and his award-winning storiesWed Mar 11 2015 - 14:00
Portraits of the artists as womenTo mark International Women’s Day we’ve created an antidote to the all-male Irish Writers poster of bars and student bedrooms. Download your poster hereSat Mar 07 2015 - 07:00
In praise of Bridget O’Connor, by Martin DoyleCelebrating Irish women writers: ‘She brought a non-sentimental, unexpected, visceral approach to each scene that made her screenwriting exciting and exceptional. Great movie writers are rare in this country and she was one of them’Fri Mar 06 2015 - 21:00
Derek Landy signs book deal for new Demon Road trilogySkulduggery Pleasant author has sold 5 millions copies worldwide. First of new series is due out in SeptemberWed Mar 04 2015 - 12:47
Sara Baume named Hennessy New Irish Writer 2015Honours for Henrietta McKervey and Simon Lewis; Paula Meehan joins Hall of FameWed Feb 25 2015 - 05:30
Young Skins by Colin Barrett is the new Irish Times Book Club reading choiceThe debut short story collection has won the Guardian first book award, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story AwardMon Feb 23 2015 - 11:27
Putting Irish women writers back in the pictureWho are your favourite Irish women writers? Who are the best, the most loved or the most influential? To mark International Women’s Day on March 8th, The Irish Times has asked more than 40 writers and academics for their views – and we’d like to hear yours tooMon Feb 23 2015 - 11:00
