Literature
- Colm Tóibín is awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Award for his novel The Master.
- John Banville wins the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sea.
- Academy for Entrepreneurship on Citiwest Business Campus, Dublin, designed by De Blacam & Meagher.
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“Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life’s true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“[The] attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.”
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“Life’s so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Drama begins where there’s freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That’s why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who’s Who.”
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