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8th September 2008

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Enright takes another top prize

25.04.08 Anna Richardson

Anne Enright has followed last year's Man Booker win by securing the Irish Novel of the Year award for The Gathering (Cape) at this year's Irish Book Awards.

The awards also honoured Judging Dev by Diarmaid Ferriter (Royal Irish Academy) as non-fiction book of the year; Take a Look at Me Now by Anita Notaro (Bantam Press) in the popular fiction category; Trevor Brennan's memoir Heart and Soul (Red Rock) in the sports book category; and With My Lazy Eye by Julia Kelly (Lilliput) as newcomer of the year.

Judging Dev also won the Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice award and the Irish Published Book of the Year, while The Story of Ireland by Brendan O'Brien (O'Brien Press) and Wilderness by Roddy Doyle (Scholastic) won in the children's categories.

The lifetime achievement award went to William Trevor.

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