Author of the ‘beguilingly experimental’ Flights becomes first Pole to take prize

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Marianne Elliott awarded special £5,000 prize for advancing understanding of Irish history in Britain

Author, 88, from Co Clare has enjoyed a long and distinguished career since making her name with The Country Girls in 1962

'Midwinter Break' and 'Conversations With Friends' are two of five books on Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award shortlist

Aaron Finnegan and Louise G Cole win awards and Bernard MacLaverty inducted into Hall of Fame

Rivals include Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing and Nigerian novelist Ayobami Adebayo

New releases make the most of International Women’s Day with plenty of female stories

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Frank Wynne’s translations of Javier Cercas’s The Impostor and Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex 1 up for £50,000 prize

Sebastian Barry, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, Joseph O’Connor, Mary O’Donnell, Carlo Gébler, Helena Mulkerns, Ita Daly and Dermot Bo(...)

Review: Returned emigrant John Connell’s vivid account of a year on the family farm

‘Emma was the epitome of strength, love and generosity, beyond anything I have known’

As Storm Emma has us all under curfew, we list some great books to read by the fire

‘Country Girls’ author on ‘our unhinged times’ as she receives $50,000 Pen award

'It was Yeats’s lessons in lovesex that hit home': poets on their favourite love poems for St Valentine’s Day

Bernard MacLaverty, Maggie O’Farrell and Mark O’Connell on 12-strong longlist for prize celebrating books about health and medicin(...)

Author of acclaimed Bann trilogy and four poetry collections was at the heart of Irish literary world

A look at the 10 most popular literary articles of the year

Ticket Awards 2017: ‘Smile’, Doyle’s powerful story of a middle-aged Dubliner dealing with memories of abuse, has topped our inaug(...)

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll learn stuff ... Writers name their favourite works of the year

Cúirt highlights; major Seamus Heaney exhibition; book deals for Niamh Boyce and debut author from Derry

Here are our best reads of the last year

Irish Times Poetry Now Award judges named

10 bookish brain teasers

Bernard MacLaverty, Marian Keyes and Atlas of the Irish Revolution get the big breaks

Leading poets and writers take a fresh look at the writer on the 50th anniversary of his death

Eavan Boland is to receive Bob Hughes Lifetimes Achievement Award at Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards

Karl Geary, Sarah Crossan and Sinéad Morrissey among nominations

Seamus Heaney’s biographer, Goldsmith Prize winner, and who wrote ‘The Birds’

Prize dominated by Irish writers goes to English author for first time

Sunday Times chief arts writer’s debut also optioned for TV series by NBC Universal Studios

Faber announces ‘Irish Times’ columnist to write Nobel Prize-winning poet’s authorised life

Food Month: Henrietta McKervey, Rob Doyle, Danielle McLaughlin, Ian Duhig, Paula McGrath, Jo Spain and Martina Evans share favouri(...)

Test your knowledge of Irish and international literature

Anyone who has read her Granta essays, ‘Blue Hills and Chalk Bones’ and ‘Second Mother’, will be impatient to read more

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Leading Irish author made Cavaliere of the Ordine della Stella d’Italia at Italian embassy ceremony

Also: a host of prizewinners and the only Irish-language No1 bestseller are among this week's gems

Poets shortlisted for TS Eliot and Warwick Prizes; Dublin Book Festival highlights; Something Wicked

Tinder Press buys Tramp publisher’s post-apocalyptic Irish novel. TV rights already sold for Ahern’s 30 women’s stories

Author is best known for novel ‘The Remains of the Day’

Ed O’Loughlin and Sara Baume shortlisted for major awards; BBC to adapt Tana French novels for Dublin Murders TV series

Edgar Award-winning thriller is fifth in Sean Duffy series about a Catholic RUC man

Armagh poet wins Best Collection prize for ‘On Balance’. Ocean Vuong and Ian Patterson also honoured

Tributes: John Banville, Kevin Barry, Donal Ryan, Pat McCabe, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and others assess ‘The Ginger Man’ author

Irish authors Mike McCormack and Sebastian Barry fail to make cut

Irish literary news: Culture Night; Sounds from a Safe Harbour; Dromineer Literary Festival; Patrick Kavanagh weekend; HomePlace e(...)

A powerful debut novel set in the landscapes of Ireland’s northern borderlands

The Oscar-winning screenwriter and author discusses his career including Married Quarters, his long-awaited sequel to A Border Sta(...)

‘Literary people are much more open to complexity than political people. Political online commentary is just a cesspit for the unh(...)

Wild Words festival; John Toomey wins award; Irish Pages at Seamus Heaney HomePlace

Pair have already won awards for their listed novels, ‘Days Without End’ and ‘Solar Bones’

The sequel to his acclaimed 1989 debut is set in a Garda station in Cavan in late 1950s

Some of Ireland’s best-known writers and readers share the books that will be in their suitcases

From Bulgaria to Zambia and from China to Palestine, the books you should be reading

Irish Times Book Club: The distinguished author discusses her life and work

Maeve Binchy walk; TCD archives conference; Words Ireland initiatives

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The latest literary news and listings

To mark WB Yeats’s birthday and Bloomsday the National Library will show newly acquired letters to Yeats from James Joyce

Grace Dent, Bettany Hughes, Stephen Mangan, Anthony Horowitz, Anita Rani and Danny Wallace on tomorrow’s potential winners

‘You can sense the twinkle in the author’s eye,’ says editor of Janet Turner’s winner

Bookmarks: a round-up of the latest Irish literary news and listings

Judges praise poet’s ‘effortlessly lyric and fluent poetry… wholly suffused with humanity, humility and compassion’

The African-themed short story and poetry competition is designed to showcase emerging talent and established writers

Bookmarks: a round-up of the latest Irish literary news and listings

Bookmarks: a round-up of the latest Irish literary news and listings

Debut novel about three young Irish economic migrants in Australia won Newcomer of the Year at the 2016 Irish Book Awards

International Literature Festival Dublin highlights; Pigott Poetry Prize shortlist; Irish Writers in London Summer School; Dublin (...)

French translation prize; AE anniversary lecture; love songs in Limerick; Seamus Heaney tapestry

The Man Booker shortlisted author discusses his career, his Rustbelt Trilogy and the rise of Donald Trump, and his month-long mara(...)

Eimear McBride on Encore Award shortlist; Gutter Bookshop shortlisted; Cork World Book Festival; Karl Whitney working on a hit; Co(...)

Martin Doyle interviews the Booker-nominated author, extreme runner and stabbing survivor about Midnight in a Perfect Life

Kerry Group Novel of the Year shortlist; Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award shortlist; Poetry Ireland quiz

‘I saw, within the crime genre’s scope, a way to metaphorically and literally uncover who or what had killed American greatness’

American writers dominate 2017 Sunday Times EFG short story award shortlist

Penguin Ireland and Gutter Bookshop up for British Book Awards

Paul Kalanithi’s memoir could become first posthumous work to win the prize

Sophia Bennett’s Love Song wins Goldsboro Books Romantic Novel of the Year 2017

To mark International Women’s Day we’ve created an antidote to the all-male Irish Writers poster, free for you to download: 12 wri(...)

International Women's Day: Leading writers put together reading list for men

Ennis Book Club Festival; Bookshop of the Year; Asking for it on campus; Hogwarts Spring Gala

Author of ‘The Mai’ becomes second Irish writer in two years to be lauded by Yale

John Banville, Colum McCann, Chris Cleave, Keggie Carew and James Joyce expert Terence Killeen salute veteran writer and broadcast(...)

William Trevor lecture; Bernard MacLaverty interview; Féile Fidelma; Barry and O'Loughlin on Walter Scott prize longlist

Norwegian crime writer Thomas Enger on the wit of Harlan Coben and the wisdom of Stephen King

‘Writing makes you tune into the world in a way that I might not have experienced if I didn’t write’

On the eve of St Valentine’s Day, some of Ireland’s finest poets discuss their most-loved love poems. One has even made a poem of (...)

Irish on RoNAs shortlist; Novel Fair finalists; Mark O’Halloran for Ennis; Mountains to Sea women’s day event; NUIG honours Mike M(...)

The revelation that one of Ireland’s most successful writers has to go back to his old civil service job to earn a living highligh(...)

Bookmarks: a round-up of the latest Irish literary news and listings

£30,000 prize for ‘Days Without End’ makes him first novelist to have won twice

Angela Bourke, author of Maeve Brennan: Homesick at the New Yorker, and Irish Times writer Patrick Freyne discuss and read from he(...)