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Thirty make it on Glen Dimplex shortlists

08.10.08

Thirty emerging writers have been shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards 2008. The awards are open to books form both Ireland and the UK, published in the past year, and have a total prize fund of €45,000.

Nominated in the fiction category are Allan Bush's Last Bird Singing (Seren); Aifric Campbell's The Semantics of Murder (Profile); Daniel Davies's The Isle of Dogs (Serpent’s Tail); Rowan Somerville's The End of Sleep (Orion); David Szalay's London and The South-East (Random House); and Robin Yassin-Kassab's The Road from Damascus (Hamish Hamilton)

Shortlisted books from Irish publishers include broadcaster Richard Crowley's No Man's Land: Dispatches from the Middle East (Liberties Press); Ronan Kelly's Bard of Erin: The Life of Thomas Moore (Penguin Ireland); and a collection of poems by poet Ciaran Berry, The Sphere of Birds (Gallery Press)

The awards, now in their third year and organised in association with the Irish Writers' Centre, have five different categories: fiction, poetry, children's book, biography/non-fiction and books from any genre written in Irish.

Each category winner will receive €5,000, while the overall winner will be awarded a further €20,000 at a gala ceremony next month in the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, on November 10th.

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