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Booker Prize 2024 longlist: Colin Barrett only Irish author to make the cut
The Irish Times· 1 day agoAn award-winning short story writer, his novel Wild Houses is one of three debuts on the 13-strong...
Books by Rachel Kushner and Richard Powers Are Among Booker Prize Nominees
New York Times· 1 day agoThere are six American novels in the running for the prestigious British literary award, but only...
Irish author Colin Barrett makes Booker Prize longlist
RTÉ News· 1 day agoIrish author Colin Barrett has been longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, for his debut novel Wild...
Mayo author longlisted for the Booker Prize - news - Western People
Western People· 24 hours agoAn author from Mayo is the only Irish author to have been longlisted for this year’s Booker Prize....
Booker Prize shouldn’t reward books for simply tackling ‘issues’, says chair of judges
Daily Telegraph· 1 day agoThe comments came as artist and author Edmund de Waal and his panel announced the 13-strong longlist...
Booker Prize announces 13 books on ‘glorious’ longlist of ‘timeless and timely fiction’
The Independent· 1 day agoThis year’s longlist spotlights stories about belonging and displacement, featuring literary...
Moynalty pip Slane to Meath FL Division 5 final win
Irish Independent· 5 days agoSlane’s long unbeaten run finally ended as Moynalty gained some measure of compensation for last year’s junior B defeat with victory in this FL Division...
Edna O’Brien was the last great Irish iconoclast
The New Statesman· 1 day ago“Irish poets, learn your trade,” WB Yeats beseeched his contemporaries in his poem “Under Ben Bulben”, written months before his death in January 1939....
Three British novelists make Booker 2024 longlist among ‘cohort of global voices’
The Guardian· 1 day agoPercival Everett, Hisham Matar and Sarah Perry are among the 13 novelists longlisted for the 2024 Booker prize. The “Booker dozen” also features works by Richard Powers, Tommy Orange, Rachel ...