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10/03/2005
Irish writer shortlisted for British Book Awards
Colm Tóibín's latest book, The Master, has been shortlisted for a British Book Award.
Tóibín, who was also shortlisted for a 2004 Booker Prize, is in the Waterstones Literary Fiction category and will compete with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke, Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell and Andrea Levy's Small Island, winner of the Whitbread and Orange Prizes.
While not a biography, The Master is about nineteenth century American-born novelist Henry James. It is both a portrait of and tribute to the man who was acutely aware of the subtleties of human interaction but who always put the mind before the heart, leaving himself unable to develop intimate relationships.
The 16th Annual British Book Awards, which are sponsored by Arts Council England, will be held on April 20 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
Bibliofemme Reviews: The Master by Colm Tóibín
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