Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award

The Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award is an award since 1995 Literature Prize for fiction composing Irish writer.

From 1995 to 2000 the price was under the name Kerry Ingredients Book of the Year Award, known in the years 2001, 2002 Kerry Ingredients Irish Fiction Award.

The prize is awarded annually and is endowed with 15,000 €. Sponsor of the prize is the food producer Kerry Group. The winner is in each case in early summer on the Listowel Writers' Week, Ireland's largest literary festival, known in Listowel, County Kerry.

John Banville and Neil Jordan could each win twice the price.

Award winners

• 2013 Gavin Corbett - This Is the Way
• Christine Dwyer Hickey 2012 - The Cold Eye of Heaven
• 2011 Neil Jordan - Mistaken
• 2010 John Banville - The Infinities
• 2009 Joseph O'Neill - Netherland
• 2008 Anne Enright - The Gathering
• 2007 Roddy Doyle - Paula Spencer
• 2006 Sebastian Barry - A Long Long Way
• 2005 Neil Jordan - Shade
• 2004 Gerard Donovan - Schopenhauer 's Telescope
• 2003 William Trevor - The Story of Lucy Gault
• 2002 John McGahern - That They May Face the Rising Sun
• 2001 Anne Barnett - The Largest Baby in Ireland After the Famine
• 2000 Michael Collins - The Keepers of Truth
• 1999 J. M. O'Neill - Bennett & Company
• 1998 John Banville - The Untouchable
• 1997 Deirdre Madden - One by One in the Darkness
• 1996 Emer Martin - Breakfast in Babylon
• 1995 Philip Casey - The Fabulists