Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year

Shortlist 2023

Lucinda Riley, Photo credit: Boris Breuer

Lucinda Riley

Lucinda Riley was born in 1965 in Ireland and, after an early career as an actress in film, theatre and television, wrote her first novel aged twenty-four. Her books have been translated into forty languages and continue to strike an emotional chord with cultures all around the world. The Seven Sisters series specifically has become a global phenomenon, creating its own genre, and there are plans to create a multi-season TV series. 
 
Her books have been nominated for numerous awards, including the Italian Bancarella Prize, the Lovely Books Award in Germany, and the Romantic Novel of the Year Award. In 2020 she received the Dutch Platinum Award for sales over 300,000 copies for a single novel in one year – a prize last won by J. K. Rowling for Harry Potter. In collaboration with her son Harry Whittaker, she also devised and wrote a series of books for children called The Guardian Angels. 

Lucinda was diagnosed with cancer in 2017 and died on 11 June 2021, surrounded by her family. 

 

Photo credit: Boris Breuer.

Other authors shortlisted in this category...

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Claire Keegan

Joseph O’Connor

Sebastian Barry

Liz Nugent

Catherine Ryan Howard

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