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# Literature

This week
26th November 2023 - 2nd December 2023
Paul Lynch: From film critic to Booker Prize-winning writer
His fifth novel, Prophet Song, about a tyrannical government won the 2023 prize last night.
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Mon 7:08 AM
Irish author Paul Lynch wins 2023 Booker Prize for Prophet Song
“It is with immense pleasure that I bring the Booker home to Ireland,” the winning author told the event.
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Sun 11:02 PM
Last month
November 2023
Wild Ireland: We're at a point in history where we must improve our relationship with nature
Carsten Krieger’s book, Wild Ireland is nominated in the An Post Irish Book Awards 2023 in TheJournal.ie’s sponsored category, Best Irish Published Book of the Year.
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Nov 18th 2023, 7:00 AM
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Extract: 'She is funny and puts herself down, but in a funny way, so it’s okay'
Mia Döring shares an extract from the new Sunday Miscellany: A Selection 2018-2023 which is nominated in the An Post Irish Book Awards TheJournal.ie’s sponsored category.
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Oct 24th 2023, 8:00 PM
Extract: Our mother was left vulnerable after we lost our father during the kidnapping standoff
Tommy Conlon and Ronan McGreevy share a chapter from their new book about the kidnap of Don Tidey, The Kidnapping.
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Oct 23rd 2023, 7:00 PM
Two Irish authors named on 2023 Booker Prize shortlist
Paul Lynch and Paul Murray have been nominated for the prestigious award.
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Sep 21st 2023, 9:22 PM
Excerpt: 'My mother had the babies before marriage - I understand this was the ultimate taboo'
The author shares snippets of her difficult childhood in Cork in her new book, Grand.
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Jun 24th 2023, 7:00 AM
Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov wins 2023 International Booker Prize
He shares the prize with the book’s translator Angela Rodel.
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May 23rd 2023, 10:57 PM
British author Martin Amis dies at age 73
Amis published 15 novels including Money and London Fields, as well as the memoir Experience in 2000.
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May 20th 2023, 8:31 PM
Analysis: Behan wrote his columns like a garrulous, gregarious personality commanding attention
Professor John Brannigan of UCD says the late writer’s column for The Irish Press showed a Dublin marked by distinctive speech patterns and cultural habits.
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May 1st 2023, 7:30 AM
John Connell: Rural Ireland has been ripe for a 'booktown' - here's why I set one up
The Granard community in Longford has pulled together for its first booktown festival this coming weekend.
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Apr 17th 2023, 7:00 PM
Six novels shortlisted for possible €100,000 prize in this year's Dublin Literary Awards
American, Mexican, German, Croatian, and Canadian-Vietnamese writers have been nominated by libraries across the world.
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Mar 28th 2023, 9:09 AM
QUIZ: Who said it — Oscar Wilde or Brendan Behan?
The weekend is a time for Behan Wilde.
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Feb 11th 2023, 10:00 PM
Opinion: The Bell - the almost-forgotten Irish literary journal that 'took on the sacred cows'
Phyllis Boumans writes about why the literary journal The Bell was so important to Irish writing.
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Feb 7th 2023, 8:00 PM
Daily Poll: Do you find time to read books?
For many it can be hard to find the time to sit down with a good book.
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Feb 6th 2023, 12:05 PM
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2022
Donal Fallon: The Castle, the intrigue and the Italians - welcome to old Dublin's Ship Street
One of Dublin’s most intriguing locations is examined by the historian.
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Oct 23rd 2022, 7:30 AM
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins 2022 Booker Prize
The winner was announced in a ceremony that was broadcast this evening.
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Oct 17th 2022, 10:06 PM
Annie Ernaux wins Nobel Prize In Literature 2022
The French author has written about her life across a series of highly acclaimed memoirs.
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Oct 6th 2022, 12:23 PM
The Irish Read: 'Summers were for plants and foolishness, autumns for oblivion'
Read an extract from Andrew Meehan’s latest novel, Instant Fires, published by New Island.
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Sep 18th 2022, 7:00 PM
'It felt like it was whispered to me every day': Donal Ryan on the unexpected genesis of his latest novel
The author’s sixth novel is about the life of four generations of a Tipperary family.
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Aug 21st 2022, 8:00 AM
Salman Rushdie's family say he has 'life-changing injuries' but his sense of humour is 'intact'
The man accused of stabbing the author yesterday pleaded not guilty.
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Aug 14th 2022, 3:40 PM
Four Irish novels longlisted by libraries for prestigious Dublin Literary Award
The award carries a €100,000 prize for the winner.
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Jan 31st 2022, 3:31 PM
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The Irish Read: Four young writers share their poetry
Enjoy new work by young Irish authors, excerpted from the Paper Lanterns journal, this Sunday morning.
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Jul 11th 2021, 10:00 AM
Opinion: Yeats' poetry helped shape Ireland and appears on the Leaving Cert - now the Yeats Society is under threat
Susan O’Keeffe of the Yeats Society Sligo charts the influence of the great poet on Irish life and highlights the Society’s struggle to survive the pandemic.
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Jun 17th 2021, 7:00 AM
New portrait of Edna O'Brien to be installed at Irish Embassy in London
Artist Colin Davidson, who has also painted portraits of Seamus Heaney and Michael D Higgins, created the artwork.
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Jun 11th 2021, 5:56 PM
American poet Louise Glück wins Nobel Prize in Literature
The writer won a Pulitzer in the early 1990s.
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Oct 8th 2020, 12:53 PM
A teacher and her Sixth Year students debate To Kill A Mockingbird's place on the syllabus
We asked our anonymous teacher to share her views and those of some of her students on the recent controversy surrounding To Kill A Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men in light of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Sep 22nd 2020, 7:00 PM
Donal Ryan: 'When I became aware of the darkness in the world, I was so shocked'
The Irish author speaks to us on the release of his new novel, Strange Flowers.
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Aug 20th 2020, 6:30 AM
Eimear McBride: 'The amount of 'she's not a genius, she's a very naughty girl' I've got is just ridiculous'
The critically-acclaimed Irish author speaks to us about her new novel Strange Hotel.
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Mar 8th 2020, 11:00 AM
Poll: Should we bring James Joyce's remains back to Ireland?
The repatriation would be ahead of the centenary of the publication of Ulysses.
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Oct 15th 2019, 9:27 AM
Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo named as joint winners of 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction
Atwood has been awarded for The Testaments and Evaristo has been awarded for Girl, Woman, Other.
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Oct 14th 2019, 10:05 PM
'Scandalous': Outrage after Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded to Slobodan Milosevic defender
Peter Handke was a vocal defender of the Serbs during the bloody collapse of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
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Oct 11th 2019, 9:10 AM
Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke
Two winners were announced today as the prize was not awarded in 2018 following a scandal.
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Oct 10th 2019, 12:05 PM
Six authors shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction
Irish author Kevin Barry had made the longlist for the 2019 awards. However, he did not make the shortlist.
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Sep 3rd 2019, 12:52 PM
Living in a remote house on a mountain inspired this €100k-winning novel about a murder
Idaho is inspired by author Emily Ruskovich’s childhood.
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Jun 22nd 2019, 9:00 PM
Buck Whaley: The stakes were high when the Gambler met the Butcher
Buck Whaley was one of Irish history’s most colourful and eccentric characters, writes David Ryan.
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Apr 27th 2019, 7:30 PM
John Boyne quits Twitter after criticism from trans activists following newspaper article
‘He spoke of his rejection of the term ‘cis’ used to refer to those who are not part of the trans community.
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Apr 17th 2019, 6:12 PM
'We’re both moaning eyes hearts souls bodies one': US author James Frey wins Bad Sex in Fiction award
The annual prize draws attention to poorly written passages of sexual descriptions in fiction.
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Dec 4th 2018, 10:05 AM
Three Irish authors have made the longlist for the Man Booker Prize
Sally Rooney, Donal Ryan and Anna Burns will all compete for the award.
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Jul 24th 2018, 7:36 AM
Irish language works get their own award category for first time at Irish Book Awards
An Post has taken over as sponsor of the annual awards for the next three years.
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Jun 27th 2018, 7:04 PM
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