Novelist Maeve Binchy proved a popular recipient for this year’s Irish Pen AT Cross Award for literature. Presented with the award at a sell-out dinner in the Royal St George Yacht Club on January 19th, she expressed delight at such recognition from her peers. She also promised that on her future visits to bookshops she [...]

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Committee member Lia Mills’s novel NOTHING SIMPLE has been shortlisted for the Hughes and Hughes Novel of the Year award. Other novels in the shortlist are: John Banville’s THE SEA, Nick Laird’s UTTERLY MONKEY, Brian Lynch’s THE WINNER OF SORROW, Mike MacCormack’s NOTES FROM A COMA, and William Wall’s THIS IS THE COUNTRY.The winner will [...]

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John Banville’s ‘The Sea’ has been awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. Banville was previously shortlisted in 1898 for ‘The Book of Evidence’. Official Booker Prize Site.

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The purpose of this biennial international prize is to promote literary excellence in the form of the short story written in English. Stories must be unpublished and between 2,500 and 6,000 words. Entries must incorporate one or more of International PEN’s ideals as set out in its Charter. Entries should be submitted via the entrant’s [...]

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Christine Dwyer Hickey, author of critically acclaimed Tatty, has been nominated for Irish Tatler Woman of the Year. And ‘Tatty’ soon to be published in the UK

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