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Colum McCann wins IMPAC Prize

16.06.11 | Katie Allen

Colum McCann has won the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel Let the Great World Spin (Bloomsbury), beating 161 other entries.
 
The €100,000 prize is the largest awarded to a single novel published in English.
 
"Colum McCann joins a long list of eminent novelists to win this award," said the Lord Mayor and patron of the award, Gerry Breen. “It is wonderful and fitting to have a Dublin winner in the year that Dublin was awarded UNESCO City of Literature designation, a designation in perpetuity.”

McCann is the second Irish author to win the prize. Colm Toibín won in 2006 for The Master (Picador).

The 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is organised by Dublin City Libraries, on behalf of Dublin City Council and sponsored by IMPAC. Nominations are received from public libraries around the globe.

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