Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year

Shortlist 2023

Joseph O'Connor, photo credit Gerry Stanford

Joseph O’Connor

Joseph O’Connor was born in Dublin. His books include Cowboys and Indians, Inishowen, Star of the Sea (American Library Association Award, Irish Post Award for Fiction, France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi, Prix Madeleine Zepter for European novel of the year), Redemption Falls, Ghost Light (Dublin One City One Book Novel 2011) and Shadowplay (Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, Costa Novel of the Year shortlist). His fiction has been translated into forty languages. He received the 2012 Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature and in 2014 he was appointed Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. 

 

Photo credit: Gerry Stanford

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Claire Keegan

Sebastian Barry

Liz Nugent

Lucinda Riley

Catherine Ryan Howard

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