Paul Murray et Michael Magee ont remporté respectivement les premiers prix Nero de fiction pour The Bee Sting et Close to Home, remplaçant ainsi les prix Costa du livre. Paul Murray and Michael Magee won the inaugural Nero fiction awards for The Bee Sting and Close to Home, respectively, replacing the Costa book awards.

Paul Murray et Michael Magee ont remporté les premiers Nero Fiction Awards, qui ont effectivement remplacé les Costa Book Awards de longue date. Paul Murray and Michael Magee have won the inaugural Nero fiction awards, which have effectively replaced the long-running Costa book awards. The Bee Sting, la saga familiale tragi-comique de Murray se déroulant dans l'Irlande rurale après le crash, a remporté le prix Nero fiction. The Bee Sting, Murray's tragicomic family saga set in post-crash rural Ireland, won the Nero fiction award. Close to Home, le roman fortement autobiographique de Magee sur un jeune catholique de l'ouest de Belfast qui lutte pour s'orienter dans le paysage post-conflit, a remporté le prix Nero pour la première fiction. Close to Home, Magee's strongly autobiographical novel about a young west Belfast Catholic struggling to navigate the post-conflict landscape, won the Nero debut fiction award.