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16/06/2011
Colum Mc Cann Scoops Impac Award
Colum Mc Cann, winner of the 2009 National Book Award in the US and 2010 Best Foreign Novel Award in China, has won the largest fiction prize in the World at the Impac Awards.
At the award ceremony held in Dublin, Mr Mc Cann completed the hat trick for his now world famous book ‘Let the Great World Spin’ and picked up the €100,000 prize money at the Impac awards.
Minister for Arts, Jimmy Deenihan, described the book as a breathtaking and a brave novel: “I am delighted that an Irish writer has once again won this prestigious international award. This underscores the enormous esteem in which Irish writers and literature is held.”
The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the largest and most international prize of its kind It involves libraries from all corners of the globe. It is open to books written in any language.
(BMcN)
At the award ceremony held in Dublin, Mr Mc Cann completed the hat trick for his now world famous book ‘Let the Great World Spin’ and picked up the €100,000 prize money at the Impac awards.
Minister for Arts, Jimmy Deenihan, described the book as a breathtaking and a brave novel: “I am delighted that an Irish writer has once again won this prestigious international award. This underscores the enormous esteem in which Irish writers and literature is held.”
The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the largest and most international prize of its kind It involves libraries from all corners of the globe. It is open to books written in any language.
(BMcN)
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