Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award
Irish literary award
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The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 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),[1] the Kerry Ingredients Irish Fiction Award (2001–2002), and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award (2003–2011).
The winner of the prize is announced in May/June each year at the opening ceremony of the Listowel Writers' Week in County Kerry.[2]
The prize is sponsored by the food group Kerry Group, and is the largest (currently €20,000)[3][4] monetary prize for fiction available solely to Irish authors.[5]
Winners and shortlists
1995–2011
| Year | Author | Work | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Philip Casey | The Fabulists | [1] |
| 1996 | Emer Martin | Breakfast in Babylon | [1] |
| 1997 | Deirdre Madden | One by One in the Darkness | [6] |
| 1998 | John Banville | The Untouchable | [7] |
| 1999 | J. M. O'Neill | Bennett & Company | [8] |
| 2000 | Michael Collins | The Keepers of Truth | [9] |
| 2001 | Anne Barnett | The Largest Baby in Ireland After the Famine | [10] |
| 2002 | John McGahern | That They May Face the Rising Sun | [11] |
| 2003 | William Trevor | The Story of Lucy Gault | [12] |
| 2004 | Gerard Donovan | Schopenhauer's Telescope | [13] |
| 2005 | Neil Jordan | Shade | [13] |
| 2006 | Sebastian Barry | A Long Long Way | [13] |
| 2007 | Roddy Doyle | Paula Spencer | [13] |
| 2008 | Anne Enright | The Gathering | [13] |
| 2009 | Joseph O'Neill | Netherland | [14] |
| 2010 | John Banville | The Infinities | [15] |
| 2011 | Neil Jordan | Mistaken | [5] |
2012–2024
Blue Ribbon (
) = winner
| Year | Person | Book | Result | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Christine Dwyer Hickey | The Cold Eye of Heaven | Won | [16] |
| Kevin Barry | City of Bohane | Finalist | ||
| Anne Enright | The Forgotten Waltz | Finalist | ||
| Carlo Gébler | The Dead Eight | Finalist | ||
| Belinda McKeon | Solace | Finalist | ||
| 2013 | Gavin Corbett | This Is the Way | Won | [17] |
| Lucy Caldwell | All the Beggars Riding | Finalist | ||
| Claire Kilroy | The Devil I Know | Finalist | ||
| Kathleen MacMahon | This Is How It Ends | Finalist | ||
| Thomas O'Malley | This Magnificent Desolation | Finalist | ||
| 2014 | Eimear McBride | A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing | Won | [18] |
| Deirdre Madden | Time Present & Time Past | Finalist | ||
| Colum McCann | Transatlantic | Finalist | ||
| Frank McGuinness | Arimathea | Finalist | ||
| Donal Ryan | The Thing About December | Finalist | ||
| 2015 | Eoin McNamee | Blue Is the Night | Won | [19] |
| David Butler | City of Dis | Finalist | ||
| Nuala Ní Chonchúir | The Closet of Savage Mementos | Finalist | ||
| Patrick O'Keeffe | The Visitors | Finalist | ||
| Eibhear Walshe | The Diary of Mary Travers | Finalist | ||
| 2016 | Anne Enright | The Green Road | Won | [20] |
| John Banville | The Blue Guitar | Finalist | ||
| Kevin Barry | Beatlebone | Finalist | ||
| Austin Duffy | This Living and Immortal Thing | Finalist | ||
| Edna O'Brien | The Little Red Chairs | Finalist | ||
| 2017 | Kit de Waal | My Name Is Leon (Viking) | Won | [21] |
| Emma Donoghue | The Wonder | Finalist | ||
| Neil Hegarty | Inch Levels | Finalist | ||
| Mike McCormack | Solar Bones | Finalist | ||
| Conor O'Callaghan | Nothing on Earth | Finalist | ||
| 2018 | Paul Lynch | Grace (Oneworld) | Won | [22] |
| Lisa Harding | Harvesting | Finalist | ||
| Frank McGuiness | The Woodcutter and His Family | Finalist | ||
| Bernard McLaverty | Midwinter Break | Finalist | ||
| Sally Rooney | Conversations with Friends | Finalist | ||
| 2019 | David Park | Travelling in a Strange Land (Bloomsbury) | Won | [23] |
| John Boyne | Ladder to the Sky | Finalist | ||
| Jess Kidd | The Hoarder | Finalist | ||
| Emer Martin | The Cruelty Men | Finalist | ||
| Sally Rooney | Normal People | Finalist | ||
| 2020 | Edna O'Brien | Girl | Won | [24] |
| Kevin Barry | Nightboat to Tangier | Finalist | [25][26] | |
| Mary Costello | The River Capture | Finalist | ||
| Rónán Hession | Leonard and Hungry Paul | Finalist | ||
| Joseph O'Connor | Shadowplay | |||
| 2021[27] | Anakana Schofield | Bina (Fleet) | Won | [28] |
| Niamh Campbell | This Happy | Finalist | ||
| Rob Doyle | Threshold | Finalist | ||
| Adrian Duncan | A Sabbatical in Leipzig | Finalist | ||
| Laura McKenna | Words to Shape My Name | Finalist | ||
| 2022[29] | Claire Keegan | Small Things Like These (Grove Press) | Won | |
| Jan Carson | The Raptures | Finalist | ||
| Lisa Harding | Bright Burning Things | Finalist | ||
| Nuala O'Connor | Nora | Finalist | ||
| Kevin Power | White City | Finalist | ||
| 2023[30] | Aingeala Flannery | These Amusements[31] | Won | |
| Anya Bergman | The Witches of Vardo | Finalist | ||
| Adrian Duncan | The Geometer Lobachevsky | Finalist | ||
| Louise Kennedy | Trespasses | Finalist | ||
| Audrey Magee | The Colony | Finalist | ||
| 2024[3] | Darragh McKeon | Remembrance Sunday | Won | |
| Sebastian Barry | Old God's Time | Finalist | ||
| Naoise Dolan | The Happy Couple | Finalist | ||
| Anne Enright | The Wren, The Wren | Finalist | ||
| Paul Murray | Bee Sting | Finalist | ||
| 2025[32] | Niall Williams | Time of The Child | Won | |
| Christine Dwyer Hickey | Our London Lives | Finalist | ||
| Joseph O'Connor | The Ghosts of Rome | Finalist | ||
| Donal Ryan | Heart, Be At Peace | Finalist | ||
| Colm Tóibín | Long Island | Finalist |