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Bisto Book of the Year Award Winner 2010 |
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2010 Bisto Award Winners
MARIE-LOUISE FITZPATRICK WINS 20TH BISTO CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE
YEAR ‘09/'10 FOR "THERE"
Author and illustrator Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick has won the 20th
Bisto Children's Book of the Year for her picturebook There.
The results of the twentieth Bisto Children's Book of the Year
Awards were announced today, Monday 24 May 2010 at a ceremony in The
Hugh Lane Gallery.
Marie-Louise was present to accept the award and was presented
with a cheque for €10,000 by Senator David Norris, Sean Brett, Marketing
Controller Premier Foods and Chairperson of the Judging Panel, Maire Uí
Mhaicín.
This is the third time that Marie-Louise has picked up this
prestigious award, winning in 2001 and 2003 for her two other nominated
picture books You, Me and the Big Blue Sea and Izzy and Skunk
Four other awards were made
• Bisto Honour Award - Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd
• Bisto Honour Award for Illustration - There by Marie Louise Fitzpatrick
• Eilís Dillon Award - Third Pig Detective Agency by Bob Burke
• Children's Choice Award - Chalkline by Jane Mitchell
Also Shortlisted
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An Greasaí Bróg agus na Síoga- Caitríona Hastings and Andrew
Whitson
Colm and The Lazarus Key - Kieran Mark Crowley
Gluaiseacht - Alan Titley
Lincoln and His Boys - Pj Lynch
The Eyeball Collector- FE Higgins
The Gates- John Connolly
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Full details of all the Shortlisted Titles can be found here
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