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Normal People will premiere on the BBC and Hulu next year

Filming begins on Sally Rooney's Normal People

Filming has begun on Normal People, the serial adaptation of Mayo author Sally Rooney's best-selling novel, with Oscar-nominated Room director Lenny Abrahamson and Howard's End director Hettie McDonald behind the lens.

Television • 14 Jun 19

What's on? TV highlights for Monday October 15

Brendan O'Carroll hosts a new panel show, there's a documentary about the Man Booker Prize, and Peter Kay's back with more Comedy Shuffle . . .

Television • 15 Oct 18

American author George Saunders wins Man Booker Prize

American author George Saunders has been awarded the renowned Man Booker Prize for his first full-length novel, Lincoln In The Bardo.

Man Booker Prize • 18 Oct 17

Sebastian Barry and Mike McCormack - All eyes now turn to Booker shortlist on September 13

Irish authors Barry and McCormack on Man Booker list

Irish authors Sebastian Barry and Mike McCormack are among the 13 writers on the longlist for the 2017 Man Booker Prize.

Man Booker Prize • 12 Oct 17

Anne Enright is nominated for her acclaimed novel The Green Road

Anne Enright on €100k Dublin Literary Award shortlist

Irish author Anne Enright has been shortlisted for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award, the world's most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction published in English.

anne enright • 11 Apr 17

The six short-listed novels for this year's Man Booker Prize

No third time lucky for Coetzee and Man Booker Prize

Nobel Prize-winning author JM Coetzee was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice but he failed to make this year's Man Booker Prize short-list for his novel The Schooldays of Jesus, a sequel to The Childhood of Jesus.

Entertainment • 14 Sep 16

Double Man Booker Award winner J.M. Coetzee on 2016 longlist

Coetzee rules as no Irish make Man Booker longlist

Despite some strong Irish contenders for this year's Man Booker Prize, no Irish authors have made it onto the awards longlist which was announced today.

Man Booker Prize • 28 Jul 16

Some Irish names hoping to make it onto the Man Booker longlist

Irish novelists in contention for Man Booker Longlist

The longlist for the Man Booker Prize will be announced on Wednesday and there is a number of strong Irish contenders hoping to make it onto the list of thirteen or so novels selected by the judges.

Man Booker Prize • 27 Jul 16

Author Lisa McInerney 'stunned' by Bailey's Prize win

The winner of the 2016 Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction, Lisa McInerney, has said she is "completely stunned" by her win and has praised the "great celebration of diverse voices" recognised by the awards.

Entertainment • 09 Jun 16

Ireland's Laureate for Fiction was one of 13 authors on the longlist for the £50,000 prize

Anne Enright misses out on Booker shortlist

The shortlist for the 2015 Man Booker Prize has been announced, but there is disappointment for Irish author Anne Enright and her new book, The Green Road.

Entertainment • 15 Sep 15

Anne Enright has been included on the longlist for this year's Man Booker Prize

Anne Enright makes Man Booker Longlist

Irish author and Laureate for Fiction Anne Enright has been included in the longlist for this year's Man Booker prize for her novel The Green Road.

Entertainment • 29 Jul 15

Man Booker Winner upset with Australian Government

The winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize, Richard Flanagan, says he is "ashamed to be an Australian" due to Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's environmental policies.

Entertainment • 17 Oct 14

Australian ‘stunned’ to be on Man Booker longlist

In the first year that the prize has been opened to authors of any nationality writing in English, the Australian author Richard Flanagan features among the 13 writers longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker prize for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep Nort

Entertainment • 24 Jul 14

Williams is nominated for The History of the Rain

Two Irish authors on Booker longlist

Two Irish writers, Niall Williams and Joseph O'Neill, have been longlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize.

Entertainment • 23 Jul 14

Catton - Book is also the longest to win the award

Booker Prize picks youngest winner

Twenty-eight-year-old New Zealander Eleanor Catton has become the youngest ever winner of the Man Booker Prize for her second novel, The Luminaries.

Entertainment • 16 Oct 13

Man Booker Prize - Change from 2014 onwards

Man Booker Prize going global next year

The trustees of the Booker Prize Foundation have announced that, from 2014 onwards, the Man Booker Prize will be open to all novels originally written in English and published in the UK, regardless of the nationality of the author.

Entertainment • 18 Sep 13

Tóibín - Shortlisted for his novel, The Testament of Mary

Tóibín makes Booker Prize shortlist

Irish author Colm Tóibín has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for his novel, The Testament of Mary, but there is disappointment for longlisted Irish writers Colum McCann (TransAtlantic) and Donal Ryan (The Spinning Heart).

Entertainment • 10 Sep 13

Man Booker Prize