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15/03/2006
Award for new writers in Ireland and UK
Booker Prize-nominated author Colm Tóibín launched the Glen Dimplex New Writers' Awards at the Irish Writers' Centre in Dublin on Monday.
The annual awards, which will have a total prize fund of €45,000, aim to offer support and exposure for emerging writers.
Awards will be made to the best first book published in the last year in Ireland and the UK by an author in each of five categories: Fiction, Poetry, Children's Book, Biography/Non-fiction and for the best first book published in any genre in the Irish language.
The Glen Dimplex New Writer of the Year 2006 will be chosen from the five category winners.
A prize of €5,000 will go to each category winner. There will also be an overall award of €20,000 for the Glen Dimplex New Writer of the Year.
The awards will be judged by a fifteen-strong judging panel which will include Colm Tóibín.
Shortlists in each category will be announced in September. The category winners and the overall winner will be announced at a ceremony in the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Thursday 2 November.
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