![]() ![]() ![]() His books were checked out almost 71,000 times. Meanwhile, the agency said the success of the Dublin: One City, One Book initiative was reflected in James Joyce’s Dubliners becoming the seventh most borrowed adult fiction title last year.įor the third successive year, US crime writer James Patterson was the most popular adult fiction author overall with borrowers. Nineteen writers received the maximum €1,000 payment, the agency said. The most popular non-fiction books last year were the Guinness Book of World Records 2011 and the Official Driver Theory Test.Īlmost €222,000 was paid out to 4,685 home-grown and international authors in respect of library loans. Popular classics "Classic stories continue to delight today's children with stars such as Enid Blyton, Roger Hargreaves and Roald Dahl in the top 10 alongside Daisy Meadows, Francesca Simon, and Jacqueline Wilson," the agency said. Roderick Hunt, the author of more than 300 titles in the Oxford Reading Tree series, was the most popular children's author overall with his books loaned out 155,000 times last year. The agency said that children’s books now account for 46 per cent of all books borrowed from Irish libraries. ![]()
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