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Like most other industries, the publishing industry has faced unprecedented challenges this year, which makes it all the more critical for us to support Irish books, Irish authors, and our uniquely successful literary culture during awards season 2020. The range and quality on this year’s shortlists are as impressive as ever and we urge you to use these pages as a recommended reading guide and a prompt to inform your voting choices for the winners in each category and then the overall An Post Irish Book of the Year - you can vote for your favourites at: anpostirishbookawards.ie.

The Awards Ceremony on 25th November will migrate to an online format this year and you can watch it at anpostirishbookawards.ie. Please also tune in for the An Post Irish Book of the Year Awards TV show, which will air 10th December on RTÉ One. Join with us in celebrating another wonderful year for Irish writing.

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RTÉ RADIO 1 LISTENERS’ CHOICE AWARD Five of RTÉ Radio 1’s presenters have nominated their favourite book of 2020 for the RTÉ Radio 1 Listeners’ Choice Award shortlist. They are each championing a book which has struck a chord with them - these books are: Ryan Tubridy - OK, Let’s Do Your Stupid Idea by Patrick Freyne Joe Duffy - The Wild Laughter by Caoilinn Hughes Miriam O’Callaghan - A Light That Never Goes Out by Keelin Shanley Ray Darcy - Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty Sean Rocks - Love by Roddy Doyle

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In the Museum of Misremembered Things by Linda McKenna

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The Emperor of Russia

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by Kit de Waal

I Ate It All And I Really Thought I Wouldn’t by Caoilinn Hughes

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