Louise O’Neill, winner of Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year for After the Silence. And though we may have been reading alone – with libraries shuttered and book clubs forced to retreat to Zoom – we continued to read together, with a record 143,000 votes cast for the An Post Irish Book Awards by the book-loving public to select the winners in each category. The awards are Ireland’s biggest literary celebration, championing everything from novels and non-fiction to poetry, short stories and the Irish language. For author Louise O’Neill, her win in the Irish Independent Crime Fiction of the Year category with her latest book, After the Silence, rendered her “speechless”. “The category is always incredibly strong because the standard of crime fiction is so high in Ireland.

Source: Irish Independent November 25, 2020 20:36 UTC