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Hachette Ireland was one of 12 publishers honoured last week at the first awards of the new European Union Prize for Literature.
The Dublin-based branch of the Hachette publishing empire was praised for producing one of 12 award winning books: Longshore Drift (2006), by Karen Gillece.
Other acclaimed publishers at the Brussels awards ceremony were Austria’s Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Croatia’s Naklada Bošković, France’s Editions P.O.L, Hungary’s Tericum, Italy’s Giulio Einaudi editore, Lithuania’s Alma Littera, Norway’s Aschehoug, Poland’s Wydawnictwo Literackie, Portugal’s Asa Editores, Slovakia’s Kalligram, and Sweden’s Brombergs.
The prize is co-funded by the European Commission, the European Booksellers Federation (EBF), the European Writers Congress (EWC) and the Federation of European Book Publishers.