Hennessy Literary Awards 2015

The Hennessy Literary Awards were held on Tuesday in the Banking Hall of the Westin hotel in Dublin. Sara Baume was named Hennessy New Irish Writer 2015, Paula Meehan was inducted to the Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame while Henrietta McKervey won the first Fiction Prize. The award for emerging poetry was won by Simon Lewis

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The judges and the winners: (From left) Judges Xiaolu Guo, Ciaran Carty, Paula Meehan (Hall of Fame). Simon Lewis (Emerging Poetry winner), Sara Baume (Emerging Fiction and Writer of the Year winner), Henrietta McKervy (First Fiction winner) and judge Martina Devlin, at the 44th Annual Hennessy Literary Awards which recognise and reward emerging Irish writers and poets in the literary sphere. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill / The Irish Times

Wed Feb 25 2015 - 12:54

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