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Jim Crace wins IMPAC award for outstanding Harvest
Novel is terrific and tells story of rural community faced with the coming of enclosure
Jim Crace interview: ‘I never think of the reader. I am curious about things, I need to find out, so off I go’
‘Harvest is my lucky book,' says the 2015 Impac winner. 'It is also my most English book, but it’s funny, it’s also been my most universal. People see their own country’s situation reflected. It’s always the case, the rich man comes in and pushes the ordinary people out’
Jim Crace wins €100,000 International Impac Dublin Literary Award for Harvest
English-language fiction, currently overshadowed by the quality of translated writing, needed an outstanding work and Crace has written one, argues Eileen Battersby
Colum McCann is only Irish writer on Impac shortlist
Themes of war and real life dominate Dublin Literary Award shortlist
Eimear McBride wins €15,000 Kerry Group Irish novel of the year award
‘A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing’ author has already won Goldsmiths Prize and been shortlisted for Baileys, Folio and Desmond Elliott prizes
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New Zealand author Eleanor Catton wins Booker prize
‘The Luminaries’ trumps Irish writer Colm Tóibín’s ‘The Testament of Mary’, his third nomination
Video: Eleanor Catton wins the Booker with The Luminaries
A sprawling narrative from the 19th-century has taken the last Booker prize of its kind
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Colm Tóibín sole Irish contender on exciting Booker shortlist
Although The Voyage, by Murray Bail, failed to make even the longlist, this is an exciting selection
Eleanor Catton: a luminous new star in the literary constellation
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton is not yet 28, but her second novel is one of the favourites for this year’s Man Booker Prize
Will it be third-time lucky for Tóibín?
Irish writer makes Man Booker shortlist again as McCann and Ryan lose out
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