Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards 2017: The winners

Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award: Eavan Boland

Bord Gais Energy International Recognition Award: David Walliams

TheJournal.ie Best Irish Published Book of the Year: Atlas of

the Revolution — John Crowley, Donal O Drisceoil, Mike Murphy and John Borgonovo (Cork University Press)

National Book Tokens Children’s Book of the

Year (Junior): A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea — Favourite Rhymes from an Irish Childhood — Sarah Webb, illustrated by Steve McCarthy (The O’Brien Press)

National Book Tokens Children’s Book of the Year (Senior): Stand by Me — Judi Curtin (The O’Brien Press)

Dept 51@Eason Teen/ Young Adult Book of the Year: Tangleweed and

Brine — Deirdre Sullivan, illustrated by Karen Vaughan (Little Island)

Eason Book Club Novel of the Year: Midwinter Break — Bernard MacLaverty (Jonathan Cape)

Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year: The Break — Marian Keyes (Michael Joseph)

Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year: The Therapy House — Julie Parsons (New Island Books)

Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year:

I Found my Tribe — Ruth Fitzmaurice (Chatto & Windus)

Onside Non-Fiction Book of the Year: Wounds: A Memoir of War & Love — Fergal Keane (William Collins)

Ireland AM Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year: Motherfocloir — Darach O Seaghdha (Head of Zeus)

Eurospar Cookbook of the Year: Cook Well, Eat Well — Rory O’Connell (Gill Books)

Bord Gais Energy Sports Book of the Year:

The Choice — Philly McMahon with Niall Kelly (Gill Books)

RTE Radio 1’s The Ryan Tubridy Show Listeners’ Choice Award: he: A Novel — John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton)

Listowel Writers’ Week Irish Poem of the Year: Seven Sugar Cubes — Clodagh Beresford Dunne (From the Irish Times)

Writing.ie Short Story of the Year: Back to Bones — Christine Dwyer Hickey (Longlisted for Sunday

Times EFG Short Story Award)