Michel Déon Prize 2024 shortlist

The Michel Déon Prize was founded in 2018 in memory of the French writer Michel Déon (1919-2016) who made the West of Ireland his home. It is a joint prize awarded in alternate years by the Royal Irish Academy in Ireland (funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs) and the Académie française in France. The winning author receives a prize of €10,000 and the honour of visiting France or Ireland respectively to deliver the Michel Déon Lecture the following year.

The shortlist for the 2024 prize has just been announced, with the winner announced in October. The six titles on the Michel Déon Prize 2024 shortlist are:

• All Down Darkness Wide by Seán Hewitt (Penguin Random House)
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• An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey into the Magic of Rewilding by Eoghan Daltun (Hachette Books Ireland)
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• Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara by Vona Groarke (New York University Press)
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• Landscape Design and Revolution in Ireland and the United States, 1688–1815 by Finola O’Kane (Yale University Press)
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• Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World by Jane Ohlmeyer (Oxford University Press)
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• The Celestial Realm by Molly Hennigan (Eriu)
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Have you read any?