| Awards host a plethora of Irish writing talent By
Grainne McLoughlin
 High-profile Irish
authors including John Banville, John McGahern and Kate Thompson have
made the shortlist for the inaugural Irish Book Awards 2006.
Nominated in the categories of fiction, non-fiction and children’s
books, there are a total of 18 nominees and the winners will be announced
on March 1 at an awards ceremony in the Royal Yacht Club, Dun Laoghaire.
The Irish Book Awards 2006 were open to all Irish authors who had a book
published in 2005 and the total prize fund for the awards is E22,500.
The shortlists for the three categories are as follows:
The Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year:
The Sea by John Banville (Picador)
Utterly Monkey by Nick Laird (Fourth Estate)
Notes from a Coma by Mike McCormack (Cape)
This is the Country by William Wall (Sceptre)
The Winner of Sorrow by Brian Lynch (New Island)
Nothing Simple by Lia Mills (Penguin Ireland)
The Argosy Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year:
Memoir by John McGahern (Faber & Faber)
White Savage by Fintan O’Toole (Faber & Faber)
In the Dark Room by Brian Dillon (Penguin Ireland)
The Pope’s Children by David McWilliams (Gill & Macmillan)
James Connolly by Donal Nevin (Gill & Macmillan)
All of these People by Fergal Keane (Harper Collins)
The Dublin Airport Authority Irish Children’s Book of
the Year:
Second Fiddle by Siobhan Parkinson (Puffin)
The New Policeman by Kate Thompson (Random House)
Dancing Tiger by Malachy Doyle (Simon & Schuster)
Bill and Fred’ by John Quinn (O’Brien)
Snakes Elbows by Deirdre Madden (Orchard Books)
Up the Wooden Hill by Sam McBratney (Harper Collins)
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