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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/john-mcgahern-annual-book-prize/
SUMMARY:Victoria Gallery & Museum: Liverpool Irish Festival: John McGahern 
 Annual Book Prize
DESCRIPTION:Now in its seventh year\, the John McGahern Annual Book Prize
  is a £5\,000 award for the best debut work of fiction — novel or shor
 t story collection — by an Irish writer\, established by the University
  of Liverpool‘s Institute of Irish Studies to celebrate the memory of 
 one of Ireland’s greatest prose writers.\n\nBorn in 1934 and raised in t
 he west of Ireland\, McGahern wrote six novels and four short story collec
 tions\, being shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Amongst Women. He wa
 s dismissed from his teaching post when his second novel The Dark was ba
 nned by the Irish Censorship Board in 1965\, one of the last great cause
 s célèbres of Irish literary censorship. He died in 2006.
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CATEGORIES:Literature & Poetry
LOCATION:Victoria Gallery & Museum\, Ashton Street\, University of Liverpoo
 l\, Liverpool\, L69 3DR\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom
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