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Noel O’Regan
A TRALEE man’s debut novel has been shortlisted for a prestigious literary prize.
Noel O’Regan’s ‘Though The Bodies Fall’ is one of four novels shortlisted for the £10,000 James Tait Black fiction prize.
The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are literary prizes awarded for literature written in the English language. Based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, the prizes were founded in 1919 and are awarded in three categories: Fiction, Biography and Drama.
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‘Though the Bodies Fall’ has received widespread critical acclaim since it was published last year.
Noel O’Regan the recipient of a number of awards, including a Seán Dunne Young Writer Award and an Arts Council Next Generation Artist Award and was shortlisted for Newcomer of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2023.
The James Tait Black awards are the only major British book prizes judged by literature scholars and students.
The shortlists will be reread, annotated, and discussed to decide the winners of the prizes, which will be announced by the University of Edinburgh in May.
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