Fri Sep 20 11:45:26 UTC 2024: ## Irish Times Books News: New Releases, Events & Awards

**Dublin, Ireland** – The literary world is abuzz in Ireland with a host of new releases, exciting events and prestigious awards announced this week.

**New Releases:**

* Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel, *Tell Me Everything*, is featured in this week’s Irish Times, along with Martina Devlin’s new novel, *Charlotte*.
* Wendy Erskine’s debut novel, *The Benefactors*, a “brutal, tender, and rigorously intelligent” story set in contemporary Northern Ireland, will be published by Sceptre next June.
* Faber will publish Fíona Scarlett’s second novel, *May All Your Skies Be Blue*, a story of love, loss, and the lasting impact of one person’s life, in February 2024.
* New Island has signed Seán Farrell for his first two novels, *Frogs for Watchdogs* and *The Best Boy in the World*.
* Sarah Corbett Lynch’s memoir, *A Time for Truth: A Daughter’s Search for Justice and Healing*, will be published by Hachette Books Ireland next February.

**Events:**

* Culture Night will feature the launch of Children’s Books Ireland’s *Recommended Irish Reads 2024*, with readings and book signings by authors like Sadhbh Rosenstock, Chris Haughton, Sinéad Moriarty, and Alan Nolan.
* Trinity Arts and Humanities Research Festival will host a public discussion with author Paul Murray on what it means to be a 21st-century person.
* Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation will host an interview with bestselling author Anne Enright and two of her translators.
* The Festival of Italian and Irish Literature in Ireland, with the theme “Wor[l]ds of Change,” will open on September 27th.

**Awards:**

* President Jimmy Carter has been named the 2024 recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation’s Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award.
* Paul Lynch’s *Prophet Song* has won the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction, and Victor Luckerson’s *Built from the Fire* won the Nonfiction prize.

**Other News:**

* Simon O’Connor is stepping down as Director/CEO of the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI). UCD and the National Library of Ireland are recruiting a successor.

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