Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award
The Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award is a literary award for fiction by Irish writers that has been awarded since 1995 .
From 1995 to 2000 the award was known as the Kerry Ingredients Book of the Year Award , and in 2001 and 2002 as the Kerry Ingredients Irish Fiction Award . The current name of the award (as of 2020) is Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award .
The prize is awarded annually and is endowed with a total of € 17,000 (as of 2020), of which the author of the award-winning title receives € 15,000, while the shortlisted authors receive € 500 each. The food manufacturer Kerry Group is sponsoring the award . The winner of the award is announced each early summer at Listowel Writers' Week , Ireland's largest literary festival, in Listowel , County Kerry .
John Banville , Neil Jordan and Anne Enright each won the award twice.
Award winners
- 1995: Philip Casey - The Fabulists
- 1996: Emer Martin - Breakfast in Babylon
- 1997: Deirdre Madden - One by One in the Darkness
- 1998: John Banville - The Untouchable
- 1999: JM O'Neill - Bennett & Company
- 2000: Michael Collins - The Keepers of Truth
- 2001: Anne Barnett - The Largest Baby in Ireland After the Famine
- 2002: John McGahern - That They May Face the Rising Sun
- 2003: William Trevor - The Story of Lucy Gault
- 2004: Gerard Donovan - Schopenhauer's Telescope
- 2005: Neil Jordan - Shade
- 2006: Sebastian Barry - A Long Long Way
- 2007: Roddy Doyle - Paula Spencer
- 2008: Anne Enright - The Gathering
- 2009: Joseph O'Neill - Netherland
- 2010: John Banville - The Infinities
- 2011: Neil Jordan - Mistaken
- 2012: Christine Dwyer Hickey - The Cold Eye of Heaven
- 2013: Gavin Corbett - This Is the Way
- 2014: Eimear McBride - A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
- 2015: Eoin McNamee - Blue Is the Night
- 2016: Anne Enright - The Green Road
- 2017: Kit de Waal - My Name is Leon
- 2018: Paul Lynch - Grace
- 2019: David Park - Traveling in a Strange Land
- 2020: Edna O'Brien - Girl
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kerry Ingredients Book of the Year Award on dpsinfo.com (English)
- ↑ Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2020 , writersweek.ie, accessed May 28, 2020