Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year

Shortlist 2025

Sarah Maria Griffin - photo credit Jess O'Connor

Sarah Maria Griffin

Sarah Maria Griffin is from Dublin, Ireland. She is the author of the novels Eat the Ones You LoveSpare & Found Parts and Other Words For Smoke, which won an Irish Book Award in 2019. She writes about video games for The Guardian, and her nonfiction has appeared in The Irish TimesThe Winter Papers, and The Stinging Fly, amongst other places.

Author photo credit: Jess O’Connor

Other authors shortlisted in this category...

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Elaine Feeney

Donal Ryan

John Boyne

Roisín O’Donnell

Colm Tóibín

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