Author Sally Rooney’s best-selling book Beautiful World, Where Are You has been announced as Novel of the Year at the Dalkey Literary Awards.
Described by the judges as “the most ambitious” of her books so far, the Normal People author will receive €20,000 in prize money. It follows after her best-selling novel Conversations With Friends was also recently adapted for a tv show starring Joe Alwyn, Sasha Lane, Jemima Kirke, and Alison Oliver.
Kerry-based poet Victoria Kennefick won this year’s Emerging Writer Award for her stunning collection Eat Or We Both Starve, and she will be awarded €10,000.
