Female authors dominate at An Post Irish Book Awards

Sally Rooney, Emilie Pine, Emer McLysaght, and Sarah Breen, Lynn Ruane, and Liz Nugent were among the winning authors at the An Post Irish Book Awards held in Dublin last night.

Nugent won in two categories for her crime thriller Skin Deep, while Rooney, as expected, won the Eason Book Club Novel Of The Year for her second book, Normal People.