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03/06/2005
Thompson wins Bisto Book of Year Award
Kate Thompson has won the Bisto Book of the Year Award for the third time.
Thompson's book Annan Water won the award this year, while her book The Beguiliers won in 2002 and The Alcehmist's Apprentice was a joint winner in 2003. Thompson will receive a €3,000 prize and a perpetual trophy.
The Bisto Book of the Year Awards recognise excellence in the field of literature by Irish authors, illustrators and publishers.
The Eilís Dillon Award was won by Siobhán Ní Shíthigh and Seán Seosamh Mac an tSíthigh, the author and illustrator of 'An Bhó Riabhach'.
The three winners of the Bisto Merit Awards who will share a prize fund of €3,000 were Oisín McGann for The Gods and their Machines, Oliver Jeffers for How to Catch a Star and Alan Clarke, Corinna Askin and Emma Byrne, the illustrators of 'Something Beginning with P.
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