Irish writers among 146 nominations for prestigious €100k literary award

TWO Irish writers are among the 146 nominated for the world’s richest annual literary prize.

Novelists Joseph O’Connor and Anne Enright, who won the 2008 Booker Prize, are in the running for the International Impac Dublin Literary Award, which is worth €100,000.

The nominations have come from 157 libraries in 41 countries worldwide.