Andy Stanton‘s You’re a Bad Man, Mr Gum! has been shortlisted for the children’s literature prize in the Glen Dimplex Awards.The award will be announced in Dublin on November 26th 2007.

The Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards 2007 – Shortlists Announced

Glen Dimplex in association with the Irish Writers’ Centre announces today the shortlists for the Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards.

With a total prize fund of €45,000, the annual Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards offer unprecedented support and exposure for emerging writers in a range of genres. Awards will be made to the best first book published by an author within each of the following five categories: Fiction, Biography/Non-fiction, Children’s literature, Poetry and Irish-language (all genres).

Children’s literature

• Sharon Dogar, Waves  (Chicken House)
• Lyn Gardner, Into the Woods  (Random House)
• Rowland Molony, After the Death of Alice Bennett (Oxford University Press)
• Sarah Mussi, The Door of No Return  (Hodder Children’s Books)
• Andy Stanton, You’re a Bad Man, Mr Gum!  (Egmont Press)
• Jenny Valentine, Finding Violet Park  (Harper Collins Children’s Books)

Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin on 26 November. Each category winner will receive a prize of €5,000. The Glen Dimplex New Writer of the Year 2007 will be chosen from the five category winners and receive a further €20,000.

The judges for this year’s awards are: Kevin Crossley-Holland, Maire Cruise O’Brien, Philip Cummings, David Goodhart, Kerry Hardie, Dermot Healy, Michael Longley, Christina McKenna, James Ryan and last year’s Glen Dimplex New Writer of the Year, Alice Hogge.