Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award

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The Kerry Group Irish Fiction 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) and the Kerry Ingredients Irish Fiction Award (2001–2002).

The winner of the prize is announced in May/June each year at the opening ceremony of the Listowel Writers' Week in Kerry.

The prize is sponsored by the food group Kerry Group, and is the largest (currently €15,000) monetary prize for fiction available solely to Irish authors.

Winners

1995 Philip Casey – The Fabulists (The Lilliput Press)

1996 Emer Martin – Breakfast in Babylon (Wolfhound Press)

1997 Deirdre Madden – One by One in the Darkness (Faber and Faber)

1998 John Banville – The Untouchable (Picador)

1999 J. M. O'Neill – Bennett & Company (Mount Eagle Publications)

2000 Michael Collins – The Keepers of Truth (Orion Books)

2001 Anne Barnett – The Largest Baby in Ireland After the Famine (Virago)

2002 John McGahern – That They May Face the Rising Sun (Faber and Faber)

2003 William Trevor – The Story of Lucy Gault (Viking)

2004 Gerard Donovan – Schopenhauer's Telescope (Scribner)

2005 Neil Jordan – Shade (John Murray)

2006 Sebastian Barry – A Long Long Way (Viking)

2007 Roddy Doyle – Paula Spencer (Jonathan Cape)

2008 Anne Enright – The Gathering (Jonathan Cape)

2009 Joseph O'Neill – Netherland (Harper Perennial)

2010 John Banville – The Infinities (Picador)

2011 Neil Jordan – Mistaken (John Murray)

2012 Christine Dwyer Hickey – The Cold Eye of Heaven (Atlantic Books)

2013 Gavin Corbett – This Is the Way (4th Estate)

2014 Eimear McBride – A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (Galley Beggar Press)

2015 Eoin McNamee – Blue Is the Night (Faber and Faber)

2016 Anne Enright – The Green Road (Jonathan Cape)

References

Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award Wikipedia

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