Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award

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The Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award is an annual award for Irish authors of fiction, established in 1995. It was previously known as the Kerry Ingredients Book of the Year Award (1995–2000)^[1] and the Kerry Ingredients Irish Fiction Award (2001–2002).

The winner of the prize is announced in May/June each year at the opening ceremony of the Listowel Writers' Week in Kerry.^[2]

The prize is sponsored by the food group Kerry Group, and is the largest (currently €15,000) monetary prize for fiction available solely to Irish authors.^[3]

Winners

• 1995 Philip Casey – The Fabulists (The Lilliput Press)^[1]
• 1996 Emer Martin – Breakfast in Babylon (Wolfhound Press)^[1]
• 1997 Deirdre Madden – One by One in the Darkness (Faber and Faber)^[4]
• 1998 John Banville – The Untouchable (Picador)^[5]
• 1999 J. M. O'Neill – Bennett & Company (Mount Eagle Publications)^[6]
• 2000 Michael Collins – The Keepers of Truth (Orion Books)^[7]
• 2001 Anne Barnett – The Largest Baby in Ireland After the Famine (Virago)^[8]
• 2002 John McGahern – That They May Face the Rising Sun (Faber and Faber)^[9]
• 2003 William Trevor – The Story of Lucy Gault (Viking)^[10]
• 2004 Gerard Donovan – Schopenhauer's Telescope (Scribner)^[11]
• 2005 Neil Jordan – Shade (John Murray)^[11]
• 2006 Sebastian Barry – A Long Long Way (Viking)^[11]
• 2007 Roddy Doyle – Paula Spencer (Jonathan Cape)^[11]
• 2008 Anne Enright – The Gathering (Jonathan Cape)^[11]
• 2009 Joseph O'Neill – Netherland (Harper Perennial)^[12]
• 2010 John Banville – The Infinities (Picador)^[13]
• 2011 Neil Jordan – Mistaken (John Murray)^[3]
• 2012 Christine Dwyer Hickey – The Cold Eye of Heaven (Atlantic Books)^[14]
• 2013 Gavin Corbett – This Is the Way (4th Estate)^[15]
• 2014 Eimear McBride – A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (Galley Beggar Press)^[16]
• 2015 Eoin McNamee – Blue Is the Night (Faber and Faber)^[17]

References

1. Laurie Mann. "AwardWeb: Kerry Ingredients Book of the Year Award". AwardWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
2. "Official Opening of the 40th Anniversary Festival". Listowel Writers' Week. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
3. Cían Nihill (2 June 2011). "Neil Jordan wins major literary award for second time". The Irish Times. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
4. "Painting with words: Irish author Deirdre Madden can think of no occupation that she would like better.". The Sofia Echo. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
5. John Boland (23 May 1998). "A thumping good read". The Irish Times. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
6. "A late award". The Irish Times. 6 June 1999. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
7. "Writers' festival opens". The Irish Times. 6 June 2000. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
8. "Newcomer wins Irish fiction award". The Irish Times. 5 May 2001. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
9. "McGahern wins Irish Fiction Award". The Irish Times. 5 May 2002. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
10. "William Trevor wins Listowel fiction award". The Irish Times. 5 May 2003. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
11. "Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award – Literary Competitions – 39th Listowel Writers' Week 2009". Listowel Writers' Week. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
12. "Joseph O'Neill's Netherland wins Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award 2009". Normans Media Ltd. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
13. "John Banville Wins Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award 2010 at Listowel Writers' Week". Irish Publishing News. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
14. Ann Lucey (31 May 2012). "President opens Listowel literary week". The Irish Times. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
15. Ann Lucey (30 May 2013). "Corbett wins Irish Novel of the Year award at Listowel". The Irish Times. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
16. Martin Doyle (28 May 2014). "Eimear McBride wins €15,000 Kerry Group Irish novel of the year award". The Irish Times. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
17. Martin Doyle (27 May 2015). "Eoin McNamee’s Blue is the Night wins €15,000 Kerry Group Irish Novel of Year Award". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2 June 2015.

External links

Listowel Writers' Week