DEBUT AUTHOR WINS BEST NEW IRISH WRITER AT LIMERICK LITERARY FESTIVAL
Booktrade.info
March 4 2015
Posted at 7:25AM Wednesday 04 Mar 2015
The O’Brien Press is pleased to announce that Martine Madden was
announced as the Limerick Literary Festival’s Best New Irish Writer
for her debut novel, Anyush.
The award, which was open to the public vote, was presented to
Martine Madden by RTE’s Sean Rocks at the closing ceremony of the
literary festival on February 22nd. Anyush, a love story set against
the backdrop of the Armenian Turkish conflict of 1915, received 86%
of the online vote.
Responding to the news of her win, Martine said, “I’m delighted to
have won this award. There has been an extremely positive response
to Anyush, in Ireland and abroad, so it means a lot to me that this
was as a result of a public vote.”
Ivan O’Brien, MD of The O’Brien Press said, “It’s great to see a book
that tackles a serious subject winning the popular vote. Martine’s
passion for the people of Armenia and their great losses in the
genocide of 1915 shines through this gripping novel. The people of
Limerick are clearly very discerning readers.”