Return to Killybegs is a 2011 novel by the French writer Sorj Chalandon

Sorj Chalandon

Sorj Chalandon is a French writer and journalist. From 1973 until 2007 he worked as a journalist on Libération where, among other things, he covered events in Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan. In 1988 he received the Albert Londres Prize for his articles on Northern Ireland and the...

. The narrative is inspired by the 2006 murder of Denis Donaldson

Denis Donaldson

Denis Martin Donaldson was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army and a member of Sinn Féin who was exposed in December 2005 as an informer in the employment of MI5 and the Special Branch of the Police Service of Northern Ireland Denis Martin Donaldson (Short Strand, Belfast,...

, a senior Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...

 member who was revealed as a British secret agent. Chalandon had befriended Donaldson while working as a journalist in Belfast. His 2008 novel My Traitor was also inspired by the Donaldson case.

Return to Killybegs was published by Éditions Grasset

Éditions Grasset

-Two famous novels:* Une histoire française of François Nourissier, Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française)* Oublier Palerme of Edmonde Charles-Roux, Prix Goncourt...

 on 17 August 2011. It received the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française

Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française

Le Grand Prix du Roman is a French literary award, created in 1918, and given each year by the Académie française. Along with the Prix Goncourt, it is one of the oldest and most prestigious literary awards in France...

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