- Music
- 22 Mar 17
He's up against Neil Hegarty, Kit DE Waal, Emma Donoghue & Conor O'Callaghan.
Having previously scooped the Goldsmiths Prize and Bord Gáis Energy Book of the Year with it, Mike McCormack is up for the €15,000 Kerry Group Novel of the Year with the wonderful Solar Bones. A mass market UK version of the book was published last month by Cannongate and has received almost universally rave reviews.
The competition is stiff with Neil Hegarty’s Inch Levels, Kit DE Waal’s My Name Is Leon, Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder and Conor O’Callaghan’s Nothing On Earth also on the highly impressive shortlist. The winner will be announced on May 31 as part of Listowel Writer’s Week, which is also bringing the likes of Colm Tóibin, Margaret Drabble, Graham Norton, Paul Howard, Lisa McInerney and Akhil Sharma to The Kingdom.
In other literary news, Dublin writer Helen Cullen is to have her The Lost Letters Of William Wolff novel published in 2018 by Penguin as part of a two-book deal. Currently based in London, Helen formerly worked for 2fm and also penned album reviews for Hot Press.