Dutch gardener reaps Impac prize | Alison Flood
Gerbrand Bakker's 'wonderful' debut novel, set on a bleak farm, has beaten established authors to clinch the world's biggest literary prize, of €100,000
A "restrained, sparely written" debut novel by a Dutch author and part-time gardener has beaten Marilynne Robinson's Orange prize-winning Home and Joseph O'Neill's Booker-longlisted Netherland to win the world's richest book prize, the International Impac Dublin literary award.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 17 June, 2010
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