Listowel Writers' Week reveals Irish novel of the year and other prize winners

Anakana Schofield's BINA takes home the Novel honours, while Professor Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin adds another poetry laurel to her collection

Writer Anakana Schofield: took home the Novel of the Year from this year's Listowel Writer's Week

This year's virtual version of Listowel Writers' Week has just kicked off, and the Co Kerry event revealed its award winners at an online awards ceremony on Wednesday night.

The winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year for 2021, worth €15,000, was Anakana Schofield, for her novel BINA, chosen from a shortlist of five novels by adjudicators Rachel Cusk and Richard Skinner.