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Article: Declan Kiberd's 'Irish Classics' wins 2002 Capote Award for Literary Criticism.
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- May 15, 2002
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Byline: University of Iowa
IOWA CITY, Iowa, May 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- "Irish Classics" by Declan Kiberd, head of the English department at University College Dublin, is the winner of the 2002 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin. The $50,000 Capote Award, the largest annual cash prize for literary criticism in the English language, is administered for the Truman Capote Estate by the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
The book, published in the United States by Harvard University Press and by Granta in Ireland and the UK, was selected for the Capote Award by an international panel of prominent critics and writers -- ...