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IRELAND’S FAVOURITE BOOKS of 2018 are up for gongs at the country’s prestigious book awards event this year.
The An Post Irish Book Awards event is due to take place on 27 November, and tonight saw the unveiling of the shortlist.
Across the 16 categories are established writers and newcomers, from Liz Nugent to Melatu Uche Okorie, John Boyne to Graham Norton.
The best part of the awards is that the public can join in – people are being asked to cast their votes online for the best books of the year on the An Post Irish Book Awards website.
You can cast your votes until Friday 23 November, and the winners will be announced at the gala ceremony in The Clayton Hotel, Burlington Road on Tuesday 27 November.
Here are the nominees:
TheJournal.ie Best Irish Published Book of the Year
National Book Tokens Children’s Book of the Year (Junior)
National Book Tokens Children’s Book of the Year (Senior)
Dept 51@Eason Teen / Young Adult Book of the Year
Eason Book Club Novel of the Year
Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year
Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year
Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year
Onside Non-Fiction Book of the Year
Ireland AM Popular Non- Fiction Book of the Year
EUROSPAR Cookbook of the Year
Bord Gáis Energy Sports Book of the Year
RTE Radio One’s The Ryan Tubridy Show Listeners’ Choice Award
Listowel Writers’ Week Irish Poem of the Year
Writing.ie Short Story of the Year
The Love Leabhar Gaeilge Irish Language Book of the Year
Maria Dickenson, Chairperson of the An Post Irish Book Awards, said: “This year’s shortlist once again demonstrates the wonderful wealth of writing talent we have in Ireland.”
We know that the Irish literary culture is regarded as one of the greatest in the world and we’ve always wished for an awards project that rises to that challenge. We’re immensely proud of what we’ve achieved with the Irish Book Awards through a broad coalition of readers, publishers, writers, booksellers, librarians, and media.
David McRedmond, CEO at An Post, added: “Our message is simple: These are fantastic books. Buy them and send them to your friends. Enjoy them.”
The An Post Irish Book Awards will be presented by Keelin Shanley this year and a one hour highlight television programme will be broadcast on RTÉ One on Thursday 29 November at 10.45pm.
2018 marks the first year of An Post’s sponsorship of the Irish Book Awards. To support this, An Post has launched #ReadersWanted, a national campaign that celebrates reading.
TheJournal.ie will be featuring all of the authors in our sponsored Best Irish Published Book category for the next month, until the An Post Irish Book Awards take place.
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