Alistair MacLeod wins richest award

Subject: Alistair MacLeod wins richest award
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 20 May 01 - 04:35 AM

Alistair MacLeod, the Cape Breton writer who writes about the Gaelic tradition, especially of music, has won the world's richest literary award, the Irish Times IMPAC prize, for his novel No Great Mischief.