Tipperary writer says win ‘very unexpected’ for novel that explores the 21st century problems of a small, tight-knit ...

Donal Ryan has said he is “overjoyed” to have won the prestigious Orwell Prize for political fiction.The Tipperary native was ...

Donal Ryan took home the Orwell Prize for Fiction for Heart, Be at Peace, his depiction of an Irish community in twenty-one ...

Ukrainian novelist and war crimes investigator Victoria Amelina has posthumously won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing ...

In 2014 Donal Ryan published a novel in the U.S. called “The Spinning Heart” about a rural Irish town after the 2008 financial collapse. It was narrated by a chorus of voices, one per chapter ...

Donal Ryan has set his novels chiefly in and around his native Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland, filling them with characters whose stories become the background of subsequent books. “Heart, Be ...

IRISH AUTHOR DONAL Ryan has been awarded the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction for his novel Heart, Be at Peace. Ryan’s ...

Irish writer Donal Ryan has been announced in London as the winner of the prestigious Orwell Prize for Political Fiction for ...

In 2014 Donal Ryan published a novel in the U.S. called “The Spinning Heart” about a rural Irish town after the 2008 financial collapse. It was narrated by a chorus of voices, one per chapter ...

Donal Ryan’s “Heart, Be at Peace” revisits a small Irish town a decade after the recession, weaving 21 distinct voices into a moving portrait of change, resilience, and the complexities of ...

In 2014 Donal Ryan published a novel in the U.S. called “The Spinning Heart” about a rural Irish town after the 2008 financial collapse. It was narrated by a chorus of voices, one per chapter ...