Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award
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The Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award is an annual award for Irish
authors of fiction, established in 1995. It was previously known as the Kerry Ingredients Book of the Year Award (1995-2000) and the Kerry Ingredients Irish Fiction Award (2001-2002).
The winner of the prize is announced in May/June each year at the opening ceremony of the Listowel Writers' Week in Kerry
.
The prize is sponsored by the food group Kerry Group
, and is the largest (currently €15,000) monetary prize for fiction available solely to Irish authors.
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
authors of fiction, established in 1995. It was previously known as the Kerry Ingredients Book of the Year Award (1995-2000) and the Kerry Ingredients Irish Fiction Award (2001-2002).
The winner of the prize is announced in May/June each year at the opening ceremony of the Listowel Writers' Week in Kerry
County Kerry
Kerry means the "people of Ciar" which was the name of the pre-Gaelic tribe who lived in part of the present county. The legendary founder of the tribe was Ciar, son of Fergus mac Róich. In Old Irish "Ciar" meant black or dark brown, and the word continues in use in modern Irish as an adjective...
.
The prize is sponsored by the food group Kerry Group
Kerry Group
Kerry Group , is a public food company headquartered in Ireland. It is quoted on the Dublin ISEQ and London stock exchanges. It evolved initially from a local dairy co-op in the Munster region of Ireland...
, and is the largest (currently €15,000) monetary prize for fiction available solely to Irish authors.
Winners
- 2011 Neil JordanNeil JordanNeil Patrick Jordan is an Irish filmmaker and novelist. He won an Academy Award for The Crying Game.- Early life :...
- MistakenMistaken (novel)Mistaken is a novel by the Irish novelist and filmmaker Neil Jordan published in 2011....
(John MurrayJohn Murray (publisher)John Murray is an English publisher, renowned for the authors it has published in its history, including Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, and Charles Darwin...
) - 2010 John BanvilleJohn BanvilleJohn Banville is an Irish novelist and screenwriter.Banville's breakthrough novel The Book of Evidence was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won the Guinness Peat Aviation award. His eighteenth novel, The Sea, won the Man Booker Prize in 2005. He was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize in 2011...
- The InfinitiesThe InfinitiesThe Infinities is a 2009 novel by the Irish writer John Banville.-Plot introduction:The book involves a reunion of the Godley family as the family patriarch, Adam, lies in a coma on his deathbed. The book takes place in an alternative reality with the world powered by cold fusion and steam trains...
(PicadorPicador (imprint)Picador is an imprint of Pan Macmillan in the United Kingdom and Australia and of Macmillan Publishing in the United States. Both companies are owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group....
) - 2009 Joseph O'NeillJoseph O'Neill (born 1964)Joseph O'Neill is a Irish novelist and non-fiction writer. O'Neill's novel Netherland was awarded the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.-Life:...
- NetherlandNetherlandNetherland is a critically acclaimed novel by Joseph O'Neill. It concerns the life of a Dutchman living in New York in the wake of the September 11 attacks who takes up cricket and starts playing at the Staten Island Cricket Club.-Plot summary:...
(Harper PerennialHarper PerennialHarper Perennial is a paperback imprint of the publishing house HarperCollins Publishers. Harper Perennial has divisions located in New York, London, Toronto, and Sydney. The imprint is descended from the Perennial Library imprint founded by Harper & Row in 1964...
) - 2008 Anne EnrightAnne EnrightAnne Enright is a Booker Prize-winning Irish author. She has published essays, short stories, a non-fiction book and four novels. Before her novel The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, Enright had a low profile in Ireland and the United Kingdom, although her books were favourably reviewed...
- The GatheringThe Gathering (Enright novel)The Gathering is the fourth novel by Irish author Anne Enright. It won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, eventually chosen unanimously by the jury after having largely been considered an outsider to win the prize...
(Jonathan CapeJonathan CapeJonathan Cape was a London-based publisher founded in 1919 as "Page & Co" by Herbert Jonathan Cape , formerly a manager at Duckworth who had worked his way up from a position of bookshop errand boy. Cape brought with him the rights to cheap editions of the popular author Elinor Glyn and sales of...
) - 2007 Roddy DoyleRoddy DoyleRoddy Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. Several of his books have been made into successful films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991. He won the Booker Prize in 1993....
- Paula SpencerPaula Spencer (novel)Paula Spencer is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle.-Plot summary:The novel is a sequel to Doyle's 1996 book The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, describing the life of alcoholic and battered wife Paula Spencer. The second book picks up her life ten years after the death of her husband....
(Jonathan Cape) - 2006 Sebastian BarrySebastian BarrySebastian Barry is an Irish playwright, novelist, and poet. He has been shortlisted twice for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and has won the 2008 Costa Book of the Year....
- A Long Long WayA Long Long WayA Long Long Way is a novel by Irish author Sebastian Barry set during the First World War. The protagonist Willie Dunne leaves Dublin to fight for the Allies as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers...
(VikingViking PressViking Press is an American publishing company owned by the Penguin Group, which has owned the company since 1975. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim...
) - 2005 Neil JordanNeil JordanNeil Patrick Jordan is an Irish filmmaker and novelist. He won an Academy Award for The Crying Game.- Early life :...
- ShadeShade (novel)Shade is a novel published in 2005 by the Irish novelist and film writer Neil Jordan.The book begins in the 1950s with the brutal murder of the central protagonist, Nina Hardy, at the hands of a mentally and physically scarred veteran of the Second World War.What follows is an explanation of the...
(John Murray) - 2004 Gerard DonovanGerard DonovanGerard Donovan is an acclaimed Irish-born novelist, photographer and poet currently living in Plymouth, England, working as a lecturer at the University of Plymouth....
- Schopenhauer’s Telescope (ScribnerCharles Scribner's SonsCharles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing a number of American authors including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon...
) - 2003 William TrevorWilliam TrevorWilliam Trevor, KBE is an Irish author and playwright. He is considered one of the elder statesman of the Irish literary world and widely regarded as the greatest contemporary writer of short stories in the English language....
- The Story of Lucy GaultThe Story of Lucy GaultThe Story of Lucy Gault is a novel written by William Trevor in 2002. The book is divided into three sections: the childhood, middle age and older times of the girl, Lucy. The story takes place in Ireland during the transition to the 21st century. It follows the protagonist Lucy and her immediate...
(Viking) - 2002 John McGahernJohn McGahernJohn McGahern was one of the most important Irish authors of the latter half of the twentieth century. Before his death in 2006 he was hailed as "the greatest living Irish novelist" by The Observer.-Life:...
- That They May Face the Rising Sun (Faber and FaberFaber and FaberFaber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing a great deal of poetry and for its former editor T. S. Eliot. Faber has a rich tradition of publishing a wide range of fiction, non fiction, drama, film and music...
) - 2001 Anne Barnett - The Largest Baby in Ireland After the Famine (ViragoVirago PressVirago is a British publishing company founded in 1973 by Carmen Callil to publish books by women writers. Both new works and reissued books by neglected authors have featured on the imprint's list....
) - 2000 Michael CollinsMichael Collins (Irish author)Michael Collins is an Irish novelist and also an international ultra-distance runner. He is a current member of the Irish National Team for the 100k distance and holds the Irish national masters record over the 100k distance...
- The Keepers of TruthThe Keepers of TruthThe Keepers of the Truth is a novel by Michael Collins, first published in 2000. Set in the late 1970s, the story follows the main character Bill and his attempt to unravel a murder-mystery as a cub reporter for a local newspaper in a small Midwest industrial town.The novel won the Kerry...
(Orion BooksOrion Publishing GroupOrion Publishing Group Ltd. is a UK-based book publisher. It is owned by Hachette Livre. In 1998 Orion bought Cassell.-History:Full history of the group can be found on Orion Publishing Group is owned by -Imprints:...
) - 1999 J. M. O'Neill - Bennett & Company (Mount Eagle Publications)
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- 1997 Deirdre MaddenDeirdre MaddenDeirdre Madden is an author from Toomebridge, County Antrim in Northern Ireland. She was educated at St Mary's Grammar School, Trinity College, Dublin and at the University of East Anglia . In 1994 she was Writer-in-Residence at University College, Cork and in 1997 was Writer Fellow at Trinity...
- One by One in the Darkness (Faber and Faber) - 1996 Emer MartinEmer MartinEmer Martin is an Irish novellist, painter and film-maker who has also lived in Paris, London, the Middle East, and the United States....
- Breakfast in Babylon (Wolfhound Press) - 1995 Philip Casey - The Fabulists (The Lilliput PressThe Lilliput PressThe Lilliput Press is an Irish publishing house. It was founded in 1984 by Antony Farrell, in County Westmeath, moving to its current premises in 1989...
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