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Posthumous honour:The late Siobhan Dowd (below), born in London to Irish parents – and much of whose work is set in Ireland – this week won the prestigious Cilip (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) Carnegie Medal in children’s literature for her fourth and final novel, Bog Child.
Dowd died from breast cancer in August 2007. In an emotional ceremony in London on Thursday, her sister, Denise, accepted the medal on her behalf.
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