Who got the literature ones this time around?
Dated 19th October
Applicant Amount awarded 2007 € Amount awarded 2008 € Amount awarded 2009 €
Kevin Barry €12,500. THis short story writer was also awarded the 2007 Rooney Prize
for Irish Literature on Oct 10th so he's having a good fortnight. See stinging Fly for details on his collection There Are Little Kingdoms which has been recommended to me but I have yet to read.
Rose Doyle €10,000 Novelist, mostly fairly light. See this link. I didn't rate the one book I read by her but I'd give her another chance.
Ann-Marie Hourihane € 9,000 The insightful journalist. I wonder what project she's using this for.
Catherine Mac Carthy € 7,500 € 7,500 The poet gets cash for two years. She also has a novel from 2003. Wonder if it made more money than her poetry?
Martin Malone € 7,500 Kildare based writer. Try his novel called US (as in we, not United States) He was longlisted for the IMPAC for his novel The Broken Cedar.
Alan McMonagle € 3,500 An emerging Galwegian writer.
Judith Mok € 9,000 The writing opera singer. Don't rate her stuff myself.
Paul Perry € 7,500 € 7,500 €10,000 won the Hennessey in 1998 when he was about 7 (young anyway) He has a great biog here but I'd never heard of him before.
John Staples € 3,500 Who?
Dolores Stewart €10,000 €10,000 €15,000 a bilingual poet.
Total €80,000
I'm going to apply for this next time around.
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