Bernard MacLaverty, Marian Keyes, Judi Curtin, Rory O Connell and Ruth Fitzmaurice were some of the winning authors named at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards held in Dublin this evening.
Renowned poet Eavan Boland was presented with the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award, and bestselling children’s author David Walliams was the recipient of the Bord Gáis Energy International Recognition Award – a special award made to international authors who have contributed substantially to the health and wealth of the Irish book-trade.
Now in its 12th year, the star-studded awards ceremony took place in Dublin’s Clayton Hotel, Burlington Road and was attended by Ireland’s top writers, publishers, booksellers and media personalities.
Check out the full list of winners for the ‘Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2017’:
TheJournal.ie Best Irish Published Book of the Year
Atlas of the Revolution – John Crowley, Donál Ó Drisceoil, Mike Murphy and John Borgonovo (Cork University Press)
National Book Tokens Children’s Book of the Year (Junior)
A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea – Favourite Rhymes from an Irish Childhood – Sarah Webb illustrated by Steve Mc Carthy (The O’ Brien Press)
National Book Tokens Children’s Book of the Year (Senior)
Stand by Me – Judi Curtin (The O’ Brien Press)
Dept 51@Eason Teen / Young Adult Book of the Year
Tangleweed and Brine – Deirdre Sullivan illustrated Karen Vaughan (Little Island)
Eason Book Club Novel of the Year
Midwinter Break – Bernard MacLaverty (Johnathan Cape)
Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year
The Break – Marian Keyes (Michael Joseph)
Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year
The Therapy House – Julie Parsons (New Island Books)
Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year
I Found my Tribe – Ruth Fitzmaurice (Chatto & Windus)
Onside Non-Fiction Book of the Year
Wounds: A Memoir of War & Love – Fergal Keane (Williams Collins)
Ireland AM Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year
Motherfocloir – Darach Ó Séaghdha (Head of Zeus)
EUROSPAR Cookbook of the Year
Cook Well, Eat Well – Rory O’ Connell (Gill Books)
Bord Gáis Energy Sports Book of the Year
The Choice – Philly McMahon with Niall Kelly (Gill Books)
RTE Radio One’s The Ryan Tubridy Show Listener’s Choice Award
he: A novel – John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton)
Listowel Writer’s Week Irish Poem of the Year
Seven Sugar Cubes – Clodagh Beresford (From the Irish Times)
Writing,ie Short Story of the Year
Back to Bones – Christine Dwyer Hickey (Longlisted for Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award)
