Co Down Sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, winner of the Wainwright prize for nature writing for his first book Diary Of A Young Naturalist. Dara began writing the book as a blog and then a diary at the age of 14, before being encouraged to turn it into a book. Written in poetic prose as diary entries about the natural world around us, and peppered with numerous references to Irish literature and mythology, it has led to significant interest from the literary world in the young Irish author.