Colm Toibin's book The Master wins more than one prize

Colm Toibin's The Master has won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger for the best foreign novel published in 2005 in France.

Irish author Colm Toibin won the world's richest literary prize for a single work of fiction in English on Tuesday for "The Master," his portrayal of 19th century novelist and critic Henry James.

Toibin, whose previous novels include "The South" and "The Blackwater Lightship," collected 100,000 euros ($125,800) as part of the annual International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, fending off competition from nine other shortlisted writers.

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