Gavin Corbett is one of 5 short-listed authors for the 2013 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award announced last night at Dublin’s Mansion House. The award was adjudicated this year by Robert McCrum, Observer Associate Editor and former editor-in-chief of Faber & Faber, together with poet and playwright, Rita Ann Higgins.

Gavin Corbett was born in the west of Ireland and grew up in Dublin, where he studied History at Trinity College. This is the Way, his second novel, was published earlier this year by Fourth Estate in the UK and Faber in the US.