Books newsletter: Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award; Irish Writers Centre events; ACIS award for Arlen House; Cló Iar-Chonnacht and Cúirt turn 40; Seachtain na Gaeilge
Books newsletter: Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award; Ballyscullion Park Book Festival; Irish Writers Centre events; ACIS award for Arlen House; Cló Iar-Chonnacht and Cúirt turn 40; Seachtain na Gaeilge
The patron is Stephen Vernon, who named the foundation in memory of his grandfather, John Pollard. The winner will be announced at a ceremony in Trinity in April.Announcing the shortlist, chair of the judging panel, Prof Eoin McNamee, director of the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre, said: “As always it is a privilege for myself and fellow judges Tom Walker and Una Mannion to read and debate the work of these poets in their first collections.
The £2,500 prize is open to any debut novel written in English and published in the UK in 2024. The prize of £2500 exists to support UK-based authors, publishers and agents, so the novel must originate in the UK and not have been published anywhere else in the world before its UK publication. Now in its 71st year, it is the longest-running UK prize for debut fiction and – except for the James Tait Black and the Hawthornden – the oldest literary prize in Britain.
Since 1985, Cló Iar-Chonnacht has been a driving force in Irish-language publishing, producing over 400 books and 200 albums spanning fiction, nonfiction and traditional music.
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