caption: <PERSON>, who has been announced as the winner of the 2011 Dundee International Book Prize. <PERSON> (26) won the prize for his novel `Nothing Human Left' a psychological thriller set in a Dublin public school as a schoolboy's criminal desires reach a frightening conclusion. As winner he receives a £10,000 prize and his novel will be published by Glasgow-based publishing house Cargo. ``Winning the Dundee International Book Prize and having my novel published by Cargo is a major game changer for me'' said <PERSON>. ``It is the realisation of a dream I've had since I was eight years old and a validation of all those house spent scratching away at the page.'' He will be handed the prize at a gala dinner staged as part of the Dundee Literary Festival, featuring leading authors and the actor <PERSON>. The £10,000 prize is the largest offered in the UK to unpublished authors. <PERSON> will also now speak at this week's Dundee Literary Festival at the University of Dundee. His winning book is now on sale. <PERSON>/Writer Pictures
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