TWO Irish authors are on the shortlist for the biggest books prize in the world, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, it was announced yesterday.

A NOVEL about slavery was named in Dublin yesterday as the €100,000 winner of the world’s largest literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English.

American writer Edward P Jones has won this year's International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his first novel, The Known World.

IRISH authors have failed to make the shortlist for the world’s richest literary prize, which was announced in Dublin yesterday.

STORIES of oppression both in the United States and abroad have been rewarded with Pulitzer Prizes in New York.