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.
Growing up in Galway city, the author would look out of her bedroom window and imagine events that took place there in the past. ‘It was like a kind of time travel’ that shaped her imagination, she says