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Keelin Shanley, Graham Norton and Professor Luke O’Neill were among the winning authors of this year’s An Post Irish Book Awards, which were held virtually at rte.ie/culture. Read the list of winners and watch the ceremony below, and see a gallery of the winning authors above.
Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Dara McAnulty and Sinéad Burke claimed victory with their debut books, while the Novel of the Year award was won by Donal Ryan, for Strange flowers.
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See: A ceremony after the 2020 Irish Book Awards
This year’s awards attracted a record number of votes from the Irish public, and for the first time audiences around the world were able to see the An Post Irish Book awards ceremony as it happened, through RTÉ Culture – the public can also catch up. through RTÉ Player.
An Post Irish Book Awards 2020: the winners
RTÉ Radio 1 Listeners’ Choice Award
· A light that never goes out – Keelin Shanley (Gill Books)
Sports book of the year Bord Gáis Energy
· Champagne Soccer – Mark Tighe and Paul Rowan (Sandycove)
Bookselling Ireland Cookbook of the Year
· Neven Maguire Midweek Meals in Minutes – Neven Maguire (Gill Books)
Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year
· After silence – Louise O’Neill (Quercus)
Odgers Berndtson Nonfiction Book of the Year in association with The Business Post
· A ghost in the throat – Doireann Ní Ghríofa (Tramp Press)
TheJournal.ie Best Book of the Year published in Ireland
· Old ireland in color – John Breslin and Dr. Sarah-Anne Buckley (Merrion Press)
Love Leabhar Gaeilge Irish Book of the Year
· Bone – Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde (Evolution)
Dept51 @ Eason Teen and Young Adult Book of the Year
· Wild your answer – Deirdre Sullivan, illustrated by Karen Vaughan (Little Island Books)
Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year – Senior
Breaking the Mold – Sinéad Burke, illustrated by Natalie Byrne (Hachette Children’s Books – Imprint: Wren & Rook)
Children’s Book of the Year Specsavers – Junior
· The Great Irish Farm Book – Darragh McCullough, illustrated by Sally Caulwell (Gill Books)
Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year
· Diary of a young naturalist – Dara McAnulty, illustrated by Barry Falls (Little Toller Books)
National Book Sheets Popular Fiction Book of the Year
· Stretching at home – Graham Norton (Coronet, Hodder and Stoughton)
Listowel Writers’ Week Irish Poem of the Year
· In the museum of things badly remembered – Linda McKenna (Doire Press)
Writing.ie Short Story of the Year Award
· I ate it all and I really thought I wouldn’t – Caoilinn Hughes (LitHub)
Ireland AM Popular Nonfiction Book of the Year
· Don’t worry about the Boll *** s, here’s the science – Luke O’Neill (Gill Books)
Eason Novel of the Year
· Strange flowers – Donal Ryan (Doubleday Ireland)
The An Post Irish Book Awards, first awarded in 2006, showcase a diverse mix of exceptional writing from new and established writers across sixteen categories, and this year’s awards ceremony is held online due to the global pandemic. . The awards are Ireland’s largest literary celebration, championing everything from novels and non-fiction to poetry, short stories and the Irish language.
The absolute winner of the An Post Irish Book of the Year will be announced on a television program, hosted by Miriam O Callaghan, on RTÉ One at 10:15 PM on Thursday 10 December.
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