Catherine O'Flynn's What Was Lost has been awarded the Galaxy British Book Award for Waterstone's Newcomer of the Year at a ceremony hosted by Richard & Judy on April 9th.  She beat off competition from Stef Penney, Paul Torday, Markus ...
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Ewan Morrison's debut novel Swung is shortlisted for the Le Prince Maurice Prize for literary love stories 2008, alongside James Meek and Sally Vickers.  Now in its sixth year, this prize is awarded to an English-speaking writer ...
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Catherine O'Flynn's novel What Was Lost has been awarded the 2007 Costa First Novel Award, and will now compete for the Costa Book of the Year, decided on 22nd January 2008.  Her fellow category winners are:

A.L. Kennedy ...
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Adam Thorpe's Between Each Breath and Catherine O'Flynn's What Was Lost are nominated alongside Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist for the Literature Award at the 12th annual South Bank ...
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Kevin Barry's There Are Little Kingdoms has been shortlisted for another prize - this time the Irish Newcomer of the Year.  The winner will be announced at Mansion House, Dublin, on April 24th.
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Catherine O'Flynn's brilliant debut novel What Was Lost joins four other titles on the shortlist for the Guardian First Book Award.  The award recognises new writing from all disciplines.  She joins Dinaw ...
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Catherine O'Flynn's What Was Lost has been included on the list of four titles competing for the Costa First Book Award.  The winner of each category will be announced on 3rd January, and the overall winner of the Costa Book of the Year ...
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Catherine O'Flynn's triple-longlisted novel has been awarded the Jelf Group First Novel Award at a dinner hosted by the Guildford Book Festival.  Kate Mosse, author of Labyrinth, chaired the judges and the award was presented to ...
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There Are Little Kingdoms, Kevin Barry's first collection of stories, has been shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award.  He joins Jane Feaver, Nikita Lalwani, Hisham Matar, Mark McNay and Vijay Medtia on the Fiction ...
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Kevin Barry has been named as the recipient of the 2007 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature at a special reception in the Provost's house at Trinity College, Dublin where he was given his 10,000 euro cheque on 10th October.  ...
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