Edward P. Jones wins IMPAC award

From ASSOCIATED PRESS:
DUBLIN, Ireland - American writer Edward P. Jones, who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his first novel, The Known World, received one of Europe's richest literary prizes Wednesday in recognition of the same work.

In a ceremony at Dublin City Hall, Jones collected the annual IMPAC Dublin Literary Award along with a check for $120,000 for his novel, which took him a decade to write.