The Gathering wins Irish Novel of the Year

Anne Enright enjoys success at Irish Book Awards

25 April 2008

Anne Enright, who won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2007 with her novel The Gathering, has won the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year award for The Gathering (Cape) at this year's Irish Book Awards.

The Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year award is both the senior award and the foundation stone of the new Irish Book Awards. The Irish Book Awards were launched in 2006 when Hughes & Hughes booksellers decided to expand the reach and influence of the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Prize.

Previous winners include Irish writers such as the late John McGaherm, Colum McCann, Ronan Bennett, and John Banville who also won the Man Booker Prize in 2005 with his novel The Sea.

The winners of the 2008 Irish Book Awards were announced at The Gala Awards Dinner in Dublin's Mansion House on 24 April 2008.

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