Anakana Schofield has won the €15,000 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year award for Bina, a novel which secured a British publisher only after The Irish Times reviewed its Canadian edition. You can’t because the new novel by Anakana Schofield – whose first novel won two prizes and whose second novel was shortlisted for three – hasn’t been published in Ireland, the UK or even the US. Her debut novel, Malarky, won the Amazon First Novel Award. The Sun Fish won the 2010 Griffin International Poetry Prize and The Mother House won the 2020 Irish Times Poetry Now Award. The full list of Listowel Writers’ Week competition winners is listed on writersweek.ie

Source: The Irish Times June 02, 2021 21:00 UTC