Irish writer becomes first novelist to win award twice, with story of a gay relationship set during founding of the US
A “searing, magnificent” depiction of a gay relationship during the bloody founding of modern America, described by judges as “one of the most wonderful depictions of love in the whole of fiction”, has won the Costa book of the year award.
Sebastian Barry won the £30,000 prize for his novel Days Without End, making him the only novelist ever to win the overall prize a second time. He previously won the Costa book of the year, regarded as one of the UK’s most prestigious literary awards, for his novel The Secret Scripture in 2008.
Related: Days Without End by Sebastian Barry review – a bravura journey into America’s past
Related: Sebastian Barry: ‘You get imprisoned in a kind of style, I could feel it leaning on me’
Continue reading...
0 comments:
Post a Comment