Jon McGregor has made the Man Booker list twice and also won a €100k prize from the Impac, but he’s never been totally comfortable with such accolades, writes Sue Leonard.

After the stunning success of her first book, West Cork-based writer Sara Baume returns with a more personal, experimental novel. She talks to Sue Leonard

The Indian-American novelist Akhil Sharma has won the International Dublin Literary Award for his second novel, Family Life. He is the 21st winner of the €100,000 prize.

The English novelist Jim Crace has won the 20th Impac Dublin Literary Award, for his novel Harvest. The €100,000 prize is the largest for a novel published in English.

UCC lecturer Mary Morrissy says a proper writing course may have gotten her to that IMPAC nomination a bit sooner, writes Colette Sheridan

Impac winner Juan Gabriel Vasquez on how the slaying of soccer star Andres Escobar marked a tipping point, writes Alan O’Riordan

The discerning readers of Condé Nast Traveller magazine voted Kilkenny one of its top 10 of world’s friendliest cities recently, and if you visit during its festival period, you might even consider a mere top 10 is a bit unfair to the place.

'City of Bohane' by Kevin Barry is the winner of the 2013 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award.

DUBLIN’S €100,000 International IMPAC is the largest literary award for a single work of fiction in the English language.

Eight Irish authors are in with a chance of winning one of the world’s most valuable literary prizes after their books were nominated by libraries around the globe.

The shortlist for the €100,000 IMPAC award for literary fiction was revealed this morning, says Carl Dixon

FOUR Irish novels have been nominated for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Nominations have been announced for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

SIX Irish books have been nominated for the €100,000 International Impac Dublin Literary Award.

The work of an Irish author has been placed among eight of the world’s top novels in line for an international award.

TWO Irish authors have been longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2007.

TWO Irish authors are on the shortlist for the biggest books prize in the world, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, it was announced yesterday.

IT MAY seem that there are more literary prizes than great works of literature these days, but a new Irish award looks to have the potential to become a popular and permanent fixture.

A NOVEL about slavery was named in Dublin yesterday as the €100,000 winner of the world’s largest literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English.

SOME of the biggest names in literature are competing for the inaugural €50,000 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize, it emerged yesterday.

A TURKISH writer won the world’s richest literary prize yesterday for a Byzantine whodunnit set in 16th century Istanbul.