Hannah Kent
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From the Caribbean to the courthouse
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- March 30, 2019, 06:00
“I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.” The French mathematician Blaise Pascal knew that writing succinc(...)

Jim Crace wins IMPAC award for outstanding Harvest
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- June 17, 2015, 11:41
This year’s International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award has been won by the revered British writer Jim Crace with his dramatic pastoral Harvest. He is (...)

Colum McCann is only Irish writer on Impac shortlist
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- April 15, 2015, 01:00
A wide-ranging selection of novels including last year’s Man Booker winner are among the 10 contenders for the 2015 International Impac Dublin Literar(...)

First-time Irish authors rise to top of Baileys shortlist
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- April 7, 2014, 19:15
First-time Irish authors Audrey Magee (The Undertaking) and Eimear McBride (A Girl is a Half-formed Thing) have been shortlisted for this year’s Ba(...)

Burial Rites, by Hannah Kent
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- March 22, 2014, 01:00
The quality and variety of fiction streaming out of Australia are astonishing. Over the past month I’ve been captivated by three very different(...)