Colm Toibin wins Impac Award

I was thrilled to see Toibin has won the Impac for his fabulous novel The Master. His previous book The Blackwater Lightship is also amazing and worth checking out. I was pleased to see Toibin's nod to Alistair MacLeod's near-perfect novel No Great Mischief, which won the prize in 2001. I didn't know until just now that Thomas Wharton, a fellow UofA English grad, was shortlisted for the prize for his novel The Logogryph; excellent news!