African-American novel wins Irish literature prize
Michael Thomas won one of English language fiction’s richest prizes on Thursday for a novel depicting the difficulty of attaining the American Dream for an African American.
“Man Gone Down” scooped the 100,000-euro ($140,000) International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, beating off competition from 145 titles nominated by public libraries from 41 countries.
The unnamed first person narrator, [...]
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