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02/03/2006
Irish Novel of the Year for Banville
Irish novelist John Banville won another literary prize last night, taking the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year award for his Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea at the inaugural Irish Book Awards.
Brian Dillon who won the Argosy Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year prize for his autobiographical In the Dark Room and Kate Thompson was awarded the Dublin Airport Authority Children's Book of the Year award for The New Policeman.
The were winners were announced at a gala dinner in the Royal Irish Yacht Club, Dun Laoghaire.
The Sea is the story of Max Morden, a middle-aged art historian who retreats to the Irish seaside village of his childhood after his wife dies of cancer.
In The Dark Room sees Dillon write about the real-life tragic deaths of his parents.
Thompson's The New Policeman is a magical children's novel that takes young readers on an extraordinary journey through time.
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