Keegan, Enright and Anthony shortlisted for An Post Irish Book Awards

Claire Keegan, Anne Enright and Nathan Anthony have made the cut on the shortlists for this year’s An Post Irish Book Awards, which celebrates Irish writers across 19 categories. 

Keegan has been nominated for Novel of the Year with So Late in the Day (Faber), as well as for Author of the Year. The Booker Prize was dominated by Irish writers this year, and Paul Lynch and Paul Murray both receive nods in this year’s An Post awards too: Lynch for Novel of the Year with Prophet Song (Oneworld) and Murray for Listener’s Choice Award for The Bee Sting (Hamish Hamilton). Booker-longlisted Sebastian Barry also makes an appearance on An Post’s shortlist for Author of the Year.

Other authors shortlisted include Enright, nominated for Novel of the Year with The Wren, The Wren (Jonathan Cape), Anthony for Cookbook of the Year with Bored of Lunch: The Healthy Air Fryer Book (Ebury), Colin Walsh for Newcomer of the Year with Kala (Atlantic) and Lucinda Riley, posthumously nominated for Author of the Year. 

The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in the Convention Centre, Dublin, on Wednesday 22nd November. An overall An Post Irish Book of the Year will be announced on 6th December. 

The full shortlists can be found here.