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IMPAC Shortlist Revealed

April 12, 2010 – 3:56 pm

The shortlist for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award has been announced.

Irish Author Joseph O’Neill has been nominated for his novel, Netherland. The Awards are one of the richest in the world with a prize of €100,000. They are voted for by libraries across the world.

The award is judged this year by Anne Fine, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Eve Patten, Abdourahman Waberi, Zoë Wicomb and the judging panel is chaired by Hon. Eugene R. Sullivan. The final winner will be announced on 17 June 2010.

The full list of shortlisted titles are below:

The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
The Elegance Of The Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
In Zodiac Light by Robert Edric
Settlement by Christoph Hein
The Believers by Zoe Heller
Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
God’s Own Country by Ross Raisin
Home by Marilynne Robinson

More Coverage …

Irish Examiner
Irish Independent
Irish Times

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Blackstaff Author, Michael Faulkner, Nominated For Author Blog Awards

April 12, 2010 – 9:20 am

Michael FaulknerMichael Faulkner, whose books books The Blue Cabin and Still on the Sound are published by Blackstaff Press in Belfast, has been nominated for an Author’s Blog Award.

Faulkner’s blog, The Blue Cabin, covers his life on the otherwise uninhabited island of Islandmore in Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland.

The Author Blog Awards are run by Completely Novel and backed by publishers the Random House Group, Simon & Schuster and Penguin and many others.

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Author/Illustrator Oisín McGann Offers Free Ebook Download

April 12, 2010 – 7:55 am

One of Ireland’s best know children’s and young adult’s authors, Oisín McGann has launched a free ebook. The Vile Desire To Scream is set in his Wildenstern Family world.

McGann is keen for people to download and share the ebook which he is releasing it ‘as part of the promotion for The Wisdom of Dead Men’ his most recent novel.

Writing on his blog McGann said:

It’s been an interesting experience, particularly creating epub files for the first time, and I intend to do more of this in the future. I hope you choose to read this story, and if you do, I hope you enjoy it. If you do, tell your friends, tell people who aren’t your friends, tell strangers you meet on the street – tell the whole world and see if I care . . . ‘cos, well . . . I do.

The ebook is available in epub, PDF and .mobi formats and can be downloaded here.

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