***So Many Rooms (Carcanet, 2019) by Laura Scott has won the 2020 Poetry Prize for a First Collection, supported by the Atlantic Philanthropies, the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast has announced. “We wanted to be able to provide certainty for publishers, authors and audiences that Dublin Book Festival would be going ahead in autumn 2020,” programme director Julianne Siron said. .Photograph: Josima SeniorDerek Owusu’s That Reminds Me has won the Desmond Elliott Prize 2020. ***Candice Carty-Williams became the first black writer to win Book of the Year at the British Book Awards with Queenie, which also won Debut Book of the Year at the virtual ceremony. Finn, whose work has been featured in The Irish Times, RTÉ Radio and Poetry Ireland Review, lives in Dublin.

Source: The Irish Times July 02, 2020 18:56 UTC