The winner of this year's international IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is Canadian writer, Alistair MacLeod, for his novel 'No Great Mischief'.
The winner was announced in Dublin Castle this afternoon.
The award, with a prize of £100,000, is the world's most valuable prize for a single work of fiction.
The shortlist included two women and four men in an international selection nominated by libraries from around the world.
Colm Toibin was Ireland's only nominee for his fourth novel, 'The Blackwater Lightship', which was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Andrew O'Hagan from Scotland was included for his first novel, 'Our Fathers', while Silvia Molina, one of Mexico's most popular writers made the shortlist for the translation of her novel, 'The Love You Promised Me'.
West Indian writers have featured on previous IMPAC shortlists and this year Jamaican academic Margaret Cezair-Thompson, made a claim with her first novel, 'The True History of Paradise'.
The final nominee was Russian author Viktor Pelevin with 'The Clay Machine Gun', translated by Andrew Bromfield.
