Archer honoured by ‘most literate race’
If anyone should know it’s Jeffrey Archer who last night won the inaugural International Recognition Award at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2014. “If God has given you the gift to tell a story you’re lucky, but you’ve still got to work very hard,” he told the Irish Examiner.
His latest work Be Careful What You Wish For took 1,000 hours and 14 entirely handwritten drafts, he said, adding it was a great honour for him as an Englishman to receive a storytelling award from the Irish, who are “probably the most literate race on earth.”
