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- 23 Jul 15
Colm Toibin wins Hawthornden Literature Prize
For the 13-years-in-the-making Nora Webster.
He may have spent well over a decade working on it but all that hard work has paid off, as Colm Tóibín is named winner of the Hawthornden Prize for Nora Webster.
The novel was previously nominated for the Costa Award and Folio Prize. The Hawthornden is unique in that no shortlist is ever announced and authors are not aware they are in the running.
The Wexford writer picked up the prize at a ceremony in London yesterday.
In other Tóibín news, his 2009, Costa-winning novel Brooklyn has received the big screen treatment. Directed by John Crowley and starring Saoirse Ronan and Domhnall Gleeson, it hits cinemas in November.