Novelist Colm Tóibín has become the first Irish author to win the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, for The Master, an absorbing portrayal of Henry James. The award, which is worth €100,000, is the world’s richest literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English. Shortlisted for the 2004 Booker prize, Colm’s book [...]
That you might live in interesting times is an old Chinese curse. These, however, are extraordinary times, and if you want confirmation of it just read the following articles. First Officer Publicly Resists War Was the 2004 Election Stolen? My Blood on the Daisies
Like all great essayists, Thomas Lynch can take an incident and make it manifold, like the world seen in a drop of water. Here he speaks about what it means to hide the bodies of mobsters, regular folks and soldiers. Lynch lives in Milford, Michigan, near the site where the FBI are looking for the [...]
Many congratulations to Sebastian Barry, whose novel A Long Long Way has won Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award at the opening of Listowel Writers’ Week. The novel is about a soldier in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers during the first World War. The same soldier is a ghostly presence in Barry’s drama masterpiece, The Steward of [...]