Doireann Ní Ghríofa wins the UK's longest-running literary award

Cork-based author is one of two winners of the James Tait Black Prizes for debut novel A Ghost in the Throat

Doireann Ni Ghriofa. Pic Bríd O'Donovan

The debut writers of novel Lote, and the biographical work A Ghost in the Throat, have been announced as the winners of the 2021 James Tait Black Prizes.

Shola von Reinhold and Doireann Ni Ghriofa are the latest to win the UK’s longest-running literary awards, given annually by the University of Edinburgh.