Sally Rooney, Keith Earls and David King among the winners at An Post Irish Book Awards

'A Hug For You' penned by Adam King’s father, David King, and illustrated by Rhiannon Archard, has won the Specsavers Children’s book of the Year Junior Category. Picture: Alison Miles / OSM PHOTO

Novelist Sebastian Barry received a Lifetime Achievement Award and, in the week of the Late Late Toy Show, a book about everyone's favourite hugger, Adam King, bagged another gong as part of the annual An Post Irish Book Awards.

The virtual ceremony awarded writers on the work of the past year and received a record number of votes from the Irish public, with Sally Rooney, Fintan O'Toole and Keith Earls among the winners.