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Fri 06 Jun 2009Where despair meets hope
Michael Thomas, surprise winner of the International Impac Dublin Literary Award, tells EILEEN BATTERSBYabout the mess of influences that inspired his debut novel dealing with an isolated individual in freefall
MICHAEL THOMAS has a smile that lights up a room; no, make that a city. He has had a couple of weeks to get used to having won this year’s International Impac Dublin Literary Award; the rest of us have had only a few hours. For him, the victory is a pure triumph, and there is no defiance.
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