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Tue 01 Jan 2010Tóibín's 'Brooklyn' wins major fiction award
COLM TÓIBÍN’S sixth novel, Brooklyn, has been announced as the winner of the Costa Fiction Award.
Tóibín, who receives £30,000 (€33,491), defeated the 2009 Man Booker winner Hilary Mantel and her popular and populist novel Wolf Hall. He has also emulated his countryman Sebastian Barry, who won last year en route to winning the overall Costa Book of the Year. The result confirms a pattern by which Costa, formerly the Whitbread, revises the Booker.
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