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Debut young-adult novel takes top prize as five more winners selected from record 158 entries

Wexford authors Serena Molly and Eoin Colfer have been shortlisted for the 2024 KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Award

Wexford is well represented in this year’s An Post Book Awards with six authors and poets shortlisted across the 19 categories. Claire Keegan has been nominated for Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year alongside Sebastian Barry, Liz Nugent, Joseph O’Connor, Lucinda Riley, and Catherine Ryan Howard, while her latest book So Late in the Day is shortlisted for Eason Novel of the Year.

When the resistance war against the French had lasted about 1,000 days, on June 11, 1948, President Ho Chi Minh issued an appeal for patriotic emulation. Seventy years have passed, but the appeal remains valuable even in peacetime.

Hollywoods Blockbuster konnten zuletzt nicht wirklich überzeugen. In den Kinos stagnierten am letzten Wochenende die Besucherzahlen in den Kinos und an der Spitze thront weiterhin die bayrische Krimikomödie „Kaiserschmarrndrama“ mit knapp 500.000 Zuschauern. Diese Woche geht es gleich in mehreren Thrillern um Rache.