Irish writer, Kevin Barry, who was the only Irish author on the longlist for his novel Night Boat to Tangier, did not make the shortlist.

Anna Burns has become the first Northern Irish winner of the Man Booker Prize for her experimental tale of sexual coercion, Milkman.

This year’s shortlist for the revered Man Booker novel prize had good news and disappointment for Irish writers. Sally Rooney — considered a favourite — and Donal Ryan didn’t, for the judges, make the grade, while Belfast’s Anna Burns did.

David Grossman has scooped the Man Booker International Prize for his novel about a stand-up comedian who falls apart on stage.

An author whose first novel was rejected 70 times has said it was “kind of surreal” to be the first Jamaican to win the coveted Man Booker Prize for fiction.

Indian author Neel Mukherjee’s will be in Bantry on Thursday to read from his Booker-listed

Philip Roth has won the Man Booker International Prize recognising a novelist’s body of work.

He thought his chances were just a drop in the ocean, but yesterday Irishman John Banville won the Booker Prize for The Sea, and no-one was more surprised than the author himself.

Irish author John Banville has won this year's prestigious Booker Prize for his latest novel, The Sea.