Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year

Shortlist 2023

Claire Keegan, photo credit Frédéric Stucin

Claire Keegan

Claire Keegan’s stories are translated into more than thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award and in 2020 was chosen by The Times as one of the top fifty works of fiction to be published in the twenty-first century. Small Things Like These was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize, awarded for the best work of literature, regardless of form, to be published in the English language. It won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, the Ambassadors’ Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. 

 

Photo credit: Frédéric Stucin

Other authors shortlisted in this category...

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Joseph O’Connor

Sebastian Barry

Liz Nugent

Lucinda Riley

Catherine Ryan Howard

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