The 2017 award was won by Irish playwright, novelist and poet Sebastian Barry. It honours Walter Scott, considered the founding father of the historical novel. With its prize money of £25,000, the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction is one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world. His debut novel, Red Sky in Morning, was published to critical acclaim in 2013, and was a finalist for France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize) and was an Book of the Month and was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered in the US. He previously served as the chief film critic of the now-shut Sunday Tribune. Awards are great because they help reveal to the public the full width and quality of what is out there in literary publishing.”īorn in Limerick in 1977, Lynch grew up in Co Donegal and now lives in Dublin. He said: “Literary fiction always has a hard time of it and we are living in an age of increased verticality - wherever you go, the public is met with the same handful of superstar authors the year round.
Lynch told TheJournal.ie today that the spotlight of an awards shortlist can be invaluable in surfacing literary fiction to a wider audience. It has also been shortlisted for the KerryGroup Irish Book of the Year.
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