An Post Irish Book Awards 2021 Winners Eason Novel of the Year Beautiful World, Where Are You – Sally Rooney Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year 56 Days – Catherine Ryan Howard Eason Sport book of the Year in Association with Ireland AM Fight Or Flight: My Life, My Choices – Keith Earls, with Tommy Conlon Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year Snowflake – Louise Nealon Odgers Berndtson Non-Fiction Book of the Year We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958 – Fintan O’Toole Dubray Biography of the Year Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? – Séamas O’Reilly Bookselling Ireland Cookbook of the Year Everyday Cook – Donal Skehan National Book Tokens Popular Fiction Book of the Year Aisling and the City – Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen Bookstation Lifestyle Book of the Year Décor Galore – Laura De Barra TheJournal.ie Best Irish Published Book of the Year The Coastal Atlas of Ireland – Val Cummins, Robert Devoy Barry Brunt, Darius Bartlett, Sarah Kandrot Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year (Junior) A Hug for You – David King, illustrated by Rhiannon Archard Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year (Senior) The Summer I Robbed a Bank – David O’Doherty, illustrated by Chris Judge Teen and Young Adult Book of the Year The New Girl – Sinead Moriarty RTÉ Audience Choice Award Your One Wild And Precious Life - Maureen Gaffney Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year Marian Keyes Writing.ie Short Story of the Year Little Lives – Deirdre Sullivan Listowel Writers’ Week Irish Poem of the Year Longboat at Portaferry – Siobhan Campbell The Love Leabhar Gaeilge Irish Language Book of the Year Madame Lazare – Tadgh Mac Dhonnagain The An Post Bookshop of the Year Kennys Bookshop and Art Gallery, Galway