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Tue 06 Jun 2009Writer Claire Keegan wins €25,000 Davy Byrnes award
CLAIRE KEEGAN was last night announced the winner of the €25,000 Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award 2009, at a presentation in the Dublin pub made famous by Joyce.
Keegan’s winning short story, Foster, was chosen from a shortlist of six writers by American fiction writer Richard Ford. Ford was not present, but Caroline Walsh, Literary Editor of The Irish Times, read from his winning citation, in which he praised the writer’s “sparkling talent”.
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