Mary O’Donoghue: ‘The first paragraph is where it’s at, where possibilities are asserted’The writer on her new short story collection, working as a fiction editor in the US and the joys of translating Irish poetrySat Jul 01 2023 - 05:00
Colm Tóibín, Louise Kennedy and Ciarán Folan win prizes; four Irish poets on Forward shortlistsBooks newsletter: a round-up of the latest literary news and a preview of Saturday’s pagesFri Jun 30 2023 - 10:43
Siobhan MacGowan: ‘History has always been for me the ultimate story’Author talks about her new novel, The Graces, set in early 20th century IrelandSat Jun 24 2023 - 05:00
New Irish festival for Switzerland; Yoto Carnegie Medal winners; Encore Award for Daisy HildyardBooks newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages and a round-up of the latest literary newsThu Jun 22 2023 - 16:42
Chris Mullin: ‘The UK is now more insular, isolated and divided’Former British Labour MP and journalist has updated version of book Error of Judgement on Birmingham Six on way as 50th anniversary of pub bombings approachesSun Jun 18 2023 - 05:00
First digital directory of Irish publishers and Literature Ireland translation series launched; MoLI wins awardA round-up of the latest literary news and a preview of Saturday's books pagesThu Jun 15 2023 - 11:26
Barbara Kingsolver wins Women’s Prize for Fiction with Demon Copperhead Gritty, poignant novel set in the Appalachian mountains is a reimagining of Dickens’ David CopperfieldWed Jun 14 2023 - 19:30
Una Mannion: ‘Books that make me laugh are the same ones that devastate me’Author on her favourite books, her new novel Tell Me What I Am and why Turkey is the most remarkable place she has visitedSat Jun 10 2023 - 00:00
Paterson Joseph wins Christopher Bland Prize; Niall McDevitt celebrated; Giggler gets the musical treatmentBooks newsletter: A roundup of the latest literary news and a preview of this Saturday’s books pagesThu Jun 08 2023 - 12:15
Cecelia Ahern: ‘I feel very comfortable writing about people’s foibles’The author on her new novel, In a Thousand Different Ways, and why her work is so attractive to film-makersSun Jun 04 2023 - 05:00
Patricia Forde is new Laureate na nÓg; Michelle Gallen’s Factory Girls shortlisted for Encore AwardBooks newsletter: A round-up of the latest literary news and a preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Jun 01 2023 - 16:42
Arinze Ifeakandu: An exploration of what it means to be gay in contemporary Nigeria‘I do have a complicated relationship with Nigeria, but that complication is becoming less stifling as the days go by’Sat May 27 2023 - 04:49
Leopold O’Shea wins Stinging Fly story competition; Girls Who Slay Monsters wins children’s book prizeBooks newsletter: a round-up of the latest literary news and a preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu May 25 2023 - 09:00
Ciara O’Connor wins Caterpillar Poetry PrizeMichael Rosen picks Dundalk lecturer’s poem, Hints of an Adventurer for €1,000 awardThu May 25 2023 - 05:00
Booker International Prize: Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter, translated from Bulgarian by Angela Rodel, winsTime Shelter centres on a clinic for Alzheimer’s sufferers that unlocks memories by recreating the pastTue May 23 2023 - 22:00
Preti Taneja: ‘Children of first-generation immigrant parents are born experiments’Newcastle-based British-Indian writer on colonialism, identity and her craft as a novelistSat May 20 2023 - 05:00
Louise Kennedy wins best debut at British Book Awards; line-ups announced for Borris and UCD festivalsBooks newsletter: a round-up of the latest literary news and a preview of Saturday’s books pagesFri May 19 2023 - 12:38
Sinéad Gleeson to publish debut novel next yearAuthor reunites with 4th Estate’s Kishani Widyaratna, who published her nonfiction debut ConstellationsMon May 15 2023 - 09:30
Sarah Gilmartin: ‘A lot more needs to be done to make the reporting of sexual crimes easier for victims’Q&A: The author on #MeToo, good advice from Dickens, and the inspiration behind Service, her new novel of power and sexual politics in the hospitality industrySat May 13 2023 - 05:00
Arinze Ifeakandu wins Dylan Thomas Prize; Anthony Anaxagorou wins RSL Ondaatje PrizeA preview of Saturday’s books pages and a round-up of the latest literary newsThu May 11 2023 - 20:00
Margo Jefferson: ‘Criticism has taught me to be braver’Award-winning author on Ella Fitzgerald, criticism and the public events that affected her mostSat May 06 2023 - 05:00
Books newsletter: Victoria Adukwei Bulley wins 2023 Pollard International Poetry PrizeA preview of Saturday's page sand a round-up of the latest literary newsThu May 04 2023 - 10:43
President and police chief salute centenary of man who survived notorious Troubles atrocity Barney O’Dowd’s family opposes British legacy Bill which might block inquiry into relatives’ murdersWed May 03 2023 - 20:31
Billy O’Callaghan: ‘Cork is the place I know. It’s the lens through which I view the world’Author’s new novel The Paper Man takes readers back to 1930s Austria, to one of the most famous footballers in the worldSun Apr 30 2023 - 05:00
Claire Kilroy: ‘I haven’t met one mother who didn’t talk about failure’The novelist talks about about the release of her first novel in more than a decade, on the struggles of motherhood that had stopped her from writing for so longSat Apr 29 2023 - 05:00
London-Irish poet wins €6,000 Moth Poetry Prize judged by Nobel laureateLaurie Bolger’s work in progress celebrates autonomy, love and her working-class Irish heritageThu Apr 27 2023 - 20:00
Majella Kelly: ‘Nature makes more sense to me than the man-made rules of the church’The poet’s debut collection, The Speculations of Country People, reckons with the legacy of Ireland’s mother and baby homesSat Apr 22 2023 - 05:00
Dalkey Book Festival reveals line-up; Mercier Press shortlisted for IPA Prix Voltaire A preview of Saturday’s books pages and a round-up of the latest literary newsFri Apr 21 2023 - 15:55
International Booker Prize shortlist: ‘bold, subversive, sensual and nicely perverse’Firsts for Bulgaria, Côte d’Ivoire and Catalan as Irish translator Frank Wynne is shortlisted againTue Apr 18 2023 - 11:30
Tom Benn: ‘Experiencing the worst day in a fictional life is very funny to me’The award-winning author on his long-awaited new novel Oxblood, Irish roots and moving to NorwichSat Apr 15 2023 - 05:00
Seán Hewitt on Ondaatje Prize longlist; West Cork Literary Festival; Arts and Minds FestivalA preview of Saturday’s books pages and a round-up of the latest literary newsFri Apr 14 2023 - 11:48
Sara Baume and Thomas Morris on Granta list of future starsRunning since 1983, the list spotlights 20 novelists under the age of 40 every 10 yearsThu Apr 13 2023 - 12:24
Michelle Gallen: ‘My wee brother told me I’m not even the funniest person in our family’Factory Girls author on receiving her second Comedy Women in Print Prize nomination and her latest projectsSat Apr 08 2023 - 05:00
Writers on the Belfast Agreement: Michael Longley, Jan Carson, Michelle Gallen, Neil Hegarty and more reflect on 25 years of changeLeading authors reflect on the changes wrought by the 1998 agreement and what the future might holdSat Apr 08 2023 - 05:00
Pigott Prize picks Tara Bergin, Nithy Kasa, Tom French; Lucy Caldwell, Adrian Duncan make historyA preview of Saturday’s books pages and a round-up of the latest literary newsThu Apr 06 2023 - 05:00
Irish author Darran Anderson awarded $175,000 Windham-Campbell prize Derry writer ‘grateful and slightly dazed’ on learning of the life-changing €160,000 awardTue Apr 04 2023 - 19:15
Ten Irish literary gems to read before you die, chosen by Roy Foster, Fintan O’Toole, Lucy Caldwell and more From Chrysal to My Dream of You to The Pale Gold of Alaska, these neglected books are all worthy of your timeMon Apr 03 2023 - 05:00
Poets and politicians rhyme at Abbey celebration of Belfast Agreement’s 25th anniversaryMichéal Martin: ‘We are in a vastly better place and that is what we celebrate tonight’Sun Apr 02 2023 - 22:00
Michael Magee: ‘My family for a long time couldn’t really show their Irishness, it wasn’t safe’The author’s forthcoming novel, Close to Home, explores themes of class and identity, inspired by his own west Belfast childhoodSat Apr 01 2023 - 05:00
Sheena Wilkinson: ‘After 20 years of happy celibacy, I fell in love with an old friend’ Author Q&A: Mrs Hart’s Marriage Bureau is a book with a difference: a historical feminist romance centred on a naive young Northern Irish womanSat Apr 01 2023 - 04:49
Colm Tóibín to publish sequel to Brooklyn next yearLong Island reunites readers with Eilis Lacey and her family 20 years after BrooklynTue Mar 28 2023 - 10:23
Liz Nugent: ‘Scotland was a revelation ... loads of places to dispose of a body’The author discusses her latest novel, Strange Sally Diamond, plus her ideal presidential candidate, the wisdom of Judge Judy and the book she threw into the bin as fast as she couldSat Mar 25 2023 - 05:00
Books newsletter: Sara Baume shortlisted for £20,000 Dylan Thomas PrizeA round-up of the latest literary news and preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Mar 23 2023 - 09:00
‘Much of my poetry has been inspired or provoked by the blues’The Rathbones Folio Prize judge on her love of music, her role as Scottish poet laureate, and on observing the mores and manners of the better-offSat Mar 18 2023 - 05:00
BBA shortlists: Louise Kennedy, Maggie O’Farrell, Yeva Skalietska, New Island, Halfway Up the StairsA round-up of the latest literary news and a preview of Saturday’s books pagesFri Mar 17 2023 - 09:00
International Booker Prize 2023 longlist: a gap of 54 years spans oldest and youngest nomineesList spans 12 countries, 11 languages and features Irish translator for second timeTue Mar 14 2023 - 10:17
Francis Spufford: ‘I’ve always loved novels best as a reader, but for a long time I was too timid to take the plunge’Author and judge of young writer of the year award shares his literary insightsSat Mar 11 2023 - 05:00
Nine-way auction for Roisín O’Donnell’s debut novel; comedy success for IWC novel fair winnerA preview of Saturday’s books pages and round-up of the latest literary newsThu Mar 09 2023 - 12:00
Women’s Prize for Fiction: Louise Kennedy and Maggie O’Farrell on 16-strong longlistDebut Irish novelist Kennedy longlisted for Trespasses; previous winner O’Farrell for The Marriage PlotTue Mar 07 2023 - 18:00
Author Jane Casey: ‘I miss Dublin. It’s very easy to idealise a city when you don’t live there’The Close is the Irish author’s 10th Maeve Kerrigan novel, Casey tells us why Kerrigan is such a successful series characterSat Mar 04 2023 - 05:00
