This is the Way for Galway writer who takes home €15,000 prize from festival

A 37-year-old writer whose publishing deal saved him from unemployment last night scooped a €15,000 literary prize.

Author Gavin Corbett won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award for his book, This is the Way, at the opening of the 42nd annual Listowel Writers’ Week.

The coveted award, solely for Irish writers, is the largest cash prize for fiction available.