Submissions Now Open
Publishers are invited to submit eligible titles for the 2024 An Post Irish Book Awards now, click below for details. Submissions will close on the 9th of August.
Some Key Dates for your Diary
1st July
Submissions Open
9th August
Submissions Close
24th Oct
Shortlist Launch
27th November
Winners Ceremony
19th December
An Post Irish Book of the Year TV show on RTÉ One
Welcome to the An Post Irish Book Awards 2024
Submissions of eligible titles open on 1st July and close on 9th August. As we embark upon a new awards year, we do so buoyed by the fantastic performance of Irish authors in 2023, including Paul Lynch’s Booker Prize victory and Paul Murray’s win in The Nero Gold Prize Book of the Year (The Bee Sting was the An Post Irish Book of the Year in 2023) Irish writers have never been more prominent and well-respected globally and we are proud to celebrate their achievements annually in these awards.
Some wonderful books have already been published this year. Many more will follow in the coming months and the best of them will figure prominently in the quest for the glittering prizes come November. The shortlists will be announced on 24th October with the winners honoured at the Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony on 27th November in the Convention Centre Dublin.
To keep pace with developments, log on to the website regularly. Public voting will begin directly after the shortlist launch but meanwhile, here’s wishing you a wonderful summer!
We are delighted to announce that New Irish Writing’s annual awards are returning for the first time in five years at the An Post Irish Book Awards in November. This year’s winners — one for best short story, one for best poetry — will be chosen by two of New Irish Writing’s most successful and respected alumni, John Boyne and Paula Meehan.
Read more here.
Scroll through all of the 2023 category winners below
An Post Irish Book Awards Book of The Year 2023
The An Post Irish Book Awards Book of the Year 2023 was The Bee Sting by Paul Murray which was announced during a one-hour television special presented by Oliver Callan on RTÉ One on 6th December.
VOTERS WANTED
All voters will be entered into a prize draw to win one of five €100 National Book Tokens vouchers. Voting closes at 5pm 9th November.
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The An Post Irish Book Awards are different in character from conventional literary awards where winners attract the subjective approval of a jury normally comprising 3-5 judges. To decide fifteen awards in this way would be impractical and inimical to our aim to canvass the widest possible sector of the reading public.
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