 Consequently, when the jury chose "The Book of Evidence" as the winner, Greene chose to ignore this and picked "The Broken Commandment" by Vincent McDonnell as the winner.Eventually through the intervention of Tony Ryan a compromise was reached whereby Banville was awarded the £50,000 main prize while Guinness Peat Aviation provided an additional sum of £25,000 to be awarded to Vincent McDonnell, as a specially created "GPA First Fiction Award".Banville later described the incident as "grubby" and said that Greene had behaved quite badly in the awarding of the prize.