The Glen Dimplex New Writer Awards are for the best book published in the last year in Ireland and the United Kingdom by a first-time author. Each category winner receives €5,000.
Philip Ó Ceallaigh, a native of Co Waterford who lives in Bucharest, won the fiction award for his short story collection Notes From a Turkish Whorehouse, published by Penguin Ireland.
The poetry award was won by Iggy McGovern for his debut collection The King of Suburbia, published by The Dedalus Press. Néalta by Philip Cummings, published by Coiscéim, took the Irish language award.
The overall €20,000 Glen Dimplex New Writer of the Year Award went to Alice Hogge for God’s Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth’s Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot, published by HarperCollins.
The fifth category, the children’s book award, went to Stephen Davies for Sophie and the Albino Camel published by Andersen Press.
The awards are run in association with the Irish Writers Centre
