A debut novel about a financially-strapped, African-American Harvard graduate has won its author the most lucrative literary prize, the 100,000 euro Dublin Literary Award sponsored by IMPAC. Michael Thomas, competing against Pulitzer Prize-winning Junot Diaz, three other Americans, and writers from France, India, Norway, and Pakistan, is only the second American to ever win the wealthy prize, which is managed by the Dublin City Libarary association and nominated by public library systems throughout the world.
The first American to win was Washington, DC native Edward P. Jones for The Known World.
The prize has been awarded yearly since 1996 and supports the enjoyment of reading.
Thomas's book, Man Gone Down, was published by Grove Press in December of 2006 and is set in his native city Boston, though he currently lives in New York. The book previously received top ten status from The New York Times in 2007.
16 June 2009
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