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Feb 8, 2018 · President Michael D Higgins today announced Sebastian Barry as the Laureate for Irish Fiction 2018-2021 at a ceremony in the Arts Council. He takes over the laureateship from Anne Enright for a...
Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The 2018-21 Laureate for Irish Fiction, his novels have twice won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Independent Booksellers Award and the Walter Scott Prize.
He was named Laureate for Irish Fiction, 2018–2021. Barry has been twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for his novels A Long Long Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008), the latter of which won the 2008 Costa Book of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize .
The 2018–21 Laureate for Irish Fiction, his novels have twice won the Costa Book of the Year Award, and he is a two-time winner of both the Independent Booksellers Award and the Walter Scott Prize.
At a reception on 8 February 2018, President Michael D Higgins, announced Sebastian Barry as the next Laureate for Irish Fiction 2018–2021. He was awarded the honour by the Arts Council and began his three-year term in February 2018.
The 2018-21 Laureate for Irish Fiction, Barry had two consecutive novels shortlisted for the Booker Prize, A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008), before Old God’s Time was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2023.
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Feb 10, 2018 · The new Laureate for Irish Fiction on his predecessor, Anne Enright; his neuroses as a young writer; and the book that drove him to drink
