€100,000 prize for slavery novel

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 author Edward P Jones scooped the 10th International Impac Dublin Literary Award for his first novel, The Known World.

The historical work, which explores the life of Henry Townsend, a former black slave who becomes a slave owner himself, won the Pulitzer Prize last year.