Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award

The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award is an annual award for Irish authors of fiction, established in 1995. It was previously known as the Kerry Ingredients Book of the Year Award (1995–2000), the Kerry Ingredients Irish Fiction Award (2001–2002), and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award (2003-2011).

The winner of the prize is announced in May/June each year at the opening ceremony of the Listowel Writers' Week in County Kerry.

The prize is sponsored by the food group Kerry Group, and is the largest (currently €20,000) monetary prize for fiction available solely to Irish authors.

Winners and shortlists
Blue Ribbon = winner
 * 1995 Philip Casey – The Fabulists (The Lilliput Press)
 * 1996 Emer Martin – Breakfast in Babylon (Wolfhound Press)
 * 1997 Deirdre Madden – One by One in the Darkness (Faber and Faber)
 * 1998 John Banville – The Untouchable (Picador)
 * 1999 J. M. O'Neill – Bennett &amp; Company (Mount Eagle Publications)
 * 2000 Michael Collins – The Keepers of Truth (Orion Books)
 * 2001 Anne Barnett – The Largest Baby in Ireland After the Famine (Virago)
 * 2002 John McGahern – That They May Face the Rising Sun (Faber and Faber)
 * 2003 William Trevor – The Story of Lucy Gault (Viking)
 * 2004 Gerard Donovan – Schopenhauer's Telescope (Scribner)
 * 2005 Neil Jordan – Shade (John Murray)
 * 2006 Sebastian Barry – A Long Long Way (Viking)
 * 2007 Roddy Doyle – Paula Spencer (Jonathan Cape)
 * 2008 Anne Enright – The Gathering (Jonathan Cape)
 * 2009 Joseph O'Neill – Netherland (Harper Perennial)
 * 2010 John Banville – The Infinities (Picador)
 * 2011 Neil Jordan – Mistaken (John Murray)
 * 2012 Shortlist
 * Christine Dwyer Hickey – The Cold Eye of Heaven (Atlantic Books)
 * Kevin Barry - City Of Bohane
 * Anne Enright - The Forgotten Waltz
 * Carlo Gébler - The Dead Eight
 * Belinda McKeon - Solace
 * 2013 Shortlist
 * Gavin Corbett – This Is the Way (4th Estate)
 * Lucy Caldwell - All The Beggars Riding
 * Claire Kilroy - The Devil I Know
 * Kathleen MacMahon - This Is How It Ends
 * Thomas O'Malley - This Magnificent Desolation
 * 2014 Shortlist
 * Eimear McBride – A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (Galley Beggar Press)
 * Deirdre Madden - Time Present & Time Past
 * Colum McCann - Transatlantic
 * Frank McGuinness - Arimathea
 * Donal Ryan - The Thing About December
 * 2015 Shortlist
 * Eoin McNamee – Blue Is the Night (Faber and Faber)
 * David Butler - City Of Dis
 * Nuala Ní Chonchúir - The Closet Of Savage Mementos
 * Patrick O'Keeffe - The Visitors
 * Eibhear Walshe - The Diary Of Mary Travers


 * 2016 Shortlist
 * Anne Enright – The Green Road (Jonathan Cape)
 * John Banville - The Blue Guitar
 * Kevin Barry - Beatlebone
 * Austin Duffy - This Living And Immortal Thing
 * Edna O'Brien - The Little Red Chairs
 * 2017 Shortlist
 * Kit de Waal – My Name is Leon (Viking)
 * Emma Donahue - The Wonder
 * Neil Hegarty - Inch Levels
 * Mike McCormack - Solar Bones
 * Conor O'Callaghan - Nothing On Earth
 * 2018 Shortlist
 * Paul Lynch – Grace (Oneworld)
 * Lisa Harding - Harvesting
 * Frank McGuiness - The Woodcutter And His Family
 * Bernard McLaverty - Midwinter Break
 * Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends
 * 2019 Shortlist
 * David Park – Travelling in a Strange Land (Bloomsbury)
 * John Boyne - Ladder To The Sky
 * Jess Kidd - The Hoarder
 * Emer Martin - The Cruelty Men
 * Sally Rooney - Normal People
 * 2020 Shortlist
 * Edna O'Brien – Girl (Faber and Faber)
 * Kevin Barry - Nightboat To Tangier
 * Mary Costello - The River Capture
 * Ronan Hession - Leonard And Hungry Paul
 * Joseph O'Connor - Shadowplay
 * 2021 Shortlist
 * Anakana Schofield – Bina (Fleet)
 * Niamh Campbell - This Happy
 * Laura McKenna - Words To Shape My Name
 * Adrian Duncan - A Sabbatical In Leipzig
 * Rob Doyle - Threshold
 * 2022 Shortlist
 * Claire Keegan – Small Things Like These (Grove Press)
 * Jan Carson - The Raptures
 * Lisa Harding - Bright Burning Things
 * Nuala O'Connor - Nora
 * Kevin Power - White City