Single sentence novel wins £10,000 UK literary award 
The novel 'Solar Bones' by Ireland's Mike McCormack was awarded the £10,000 (approximately ₹8.2 lakhs) 2016 Goldsmiths Prize, which recognises fiction that "breaks the mould". The novel, written in a single sentence over 224 pages, is about the recollections of an Irish engineer brought back from the dead. Notably, McCormack is the third Irish writer to win the award. 