Ruth Gilligan has been shortlisted for this year’s £10,000 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize for her novel, The Butchers, along with Nina Mingya Powles, Adam Mars-Jones, James Rebanks, Francesca Wade and Louise Hare. The annual prize aims to reward the author of a work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry that best evokes the spirit of a place. When you buy Irish Times, you can save €5 on the cover price of the bestselling thriller. Sandycove is to publish the memoir this September of Ann Ingle, familiar to many Irish Times readers as the mother of my colleague Roisin Ingle. Translator Diana I Luque has been awarded the prestigious María Martínez Sierra Translation Prize by the Spanish Theatre Directors’ Association.

Source: The Irish Times April 29, 2021 14:48 UTC