Colum McCann has won the €100,000 (US$142,146) International Impac Dublin Literary Award for his novel Let the Great World Spin. The Irish Times reported that McCann topped nine other finalists to become the second Irish author to win the prize.
The Impac judging panel praised McCann's work as "a genuinely 21st century novel that speaks to its time but is not enslaved by it. In the opening pages of Let The Great World Spin, the people of New York city stand breathless and overwhelmed as a great artist dazzles them in a realm that seemed impossible until that moment; Colum McCann does the same thing in this novel, leaving the reader just as stunned as the New Yorkers, just as moved and just as grateful."
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The Impac judging panel praised McCann's work as "a genuinely 21st century novel that speaks to its time but is not enslaved by it. In the opening pages of Let The Great World Spin, the people of New York city stand breathless and overwhelmed as a great artist dazzles them in a realm that seemed impossible until that moment; Colum McCann does the same thing in this novel, leaving the reader just as stunned as the New Yorkers, just as moved and just as grateful."
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