pounds 10,000 from `British Nobel' goes to Omagh
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Your support makes all the difference.THE IRISH novelist William Trevor is to hand over pounds 10,000, awarded to him as part of a prize for a lifetime's literary achievement, to a young person from Omagh to help them build their own writing career.
Mr Trevor yesterday became the fourth winner of the David Cohen British Literature Prize, dubbed the "British Nobel" because it is awarded for a body of, rather than a single, work.
The prize consists of pounds 30,000 for the author, plus pounds 10,000 to commission work which will encourage young writers and readers. Announcing that he would be giving the bursary to someone from his native Ireland, Mr Trevor, 70, said at a ceremony in London last night: "I have based this idea on my own indigence at a similar time of my life. It is, I believe a time when creative people need most financial support."
Dr Tess Hurson accepted the pounds 10,000 bursary on behalf of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, saying: "This is a very generous gesture to a town which attracted worldwide attention last year for the most awful reasons. William Trevor's award looks to the future; it encourages creativity and will provide a wonderful opportunity for a young person to pursue a literary career."
Mr Trevor has twice won the Whitbread Award: for The Children of Dynmouth (1976) and Fools of Fortune (1983), and in 1984 Felicia's Journey was the Whitbread Book of the Year.
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