Banville wins Irish Novel of the Year

NOVELIST John Banville has scooped another literary award winning the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year award for his Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea at the inaugural Irish Book Awards last night.

Banville accepted the €10,000 prize at a special ceremony held in Dublin last night.

Also present were writers Brian Dillon, who won the Argosy Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year prize for his autobiographical In The Dark Room, and Kate Thompson, who won the Dublin Airport Authority Children’s Book of the Year award, for The New Policeman.