Welcome to the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2010
Bord Gáis Energy are the new headline sponsors of the Irish Book
Awards. David Bunworth, Managing Director at Bord Gáis Energy
commented, "The new Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards brings
together a dynamic and popular Irish brand and one of the great
success stories in the arts sector of recent years." Awards CEO,
Alastair Giles expressed the conviction that "with Bord Gáis Energy
as a headline sponsor, we will be able to reach out to a potentially
huge new audience." Please note, the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book
Awards, will move from its traditional spring date to November with
the Awards Dinner taking place in The Mansion House on
November 25th 2010.
The Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Book of the Decade Promotion
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy is The Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Book of the Decade. In our web-poll, which collected in excess of 5000 votes, Derek beat off strong opposition from literary giants such as Joseph O'Connor, Sebastian Barry, Colum McCann and John McGahern, popular novelists like Paul Howard, Sheila O'Flanagan, Marian Keyes and Cecelia Ahern, bestelling biogrpahies from Diarmaid Ferriter and Bill Cullen and another brilliantly successful young adult title, John Boyne's The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. By the bust of James Joyce on St Stephen's Green, Derek was presented with a deluxe Collectors Edition of the 1935 edition of Ulysses with drawings by Henri Matisse. Warmest congratulations to Derek who in his relatively short and brilliant career has done so much to encourage younger readers with his fabulously inventive series. Looks like Derek and Jimmy had loads to talk about!