International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the largest prize worldwide for a single work of fiction published in English. Nominations are submitted by public libraries worldwide. The annual award is €100,000.

Operators

The Award is a joint initiative of Dublin City Council (the municipal government of Dublin, Ireland) and the productivity improvement company IMPAC, and is administered by Dublin City Public Libraries.

Qualification

The prize is open to novels written in any language and by authors of any nationality, provided the work has been published in English or English translation.

The year an award is given is post-dated by two years from the date of publication. Thus, to win an award in 2007, the work must have been published between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2005. Or if it is an English translation, first published in its original language between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2005, and first published in English translation between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2005.^[1]

Process

Dublin Cty Public Libraries seek nominations from public libraries from major cities across the world.

The longlist is announced in October or November of each year, and the shortlist (up to 10 titles) is announced in March or April of the year folllowing.

The longlist and shortlist are chosen by an international panel of judges which rotates each year. Allen Weinstein was the non-voting chair of the panel from 1996 to 2003. Eugene R. Sullivan is the non-voting chair from 2004 to the current date.^[1]

The winner of the award is announced each June.

Winners and nominees

Year index: 2009 – 2008 – 2007 – 2006 – 2005 – 2004 – 2003 – 2002 – 2001 – 2000 – 1999 – 1998 – 1997 – 1996

2009

• Winner: Michael Thomas, Man Gone Down^[2]

Others Shortlisted

• Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
• Jean Echenoz, Ravel, translated from the original French by Linda Coverdale
• Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
• Travis Holland, The Archivist's Story
• Roy Jacobsen, The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles, translated from the original Norwegian by Don Shaw and Don Bartlett
• David Leavitt, The Indian Clerk
• Indra Sinha, Animal's People

2008

• Winner: Rawi Hage, De Niro's Game^[3]

Others shortlisted:^[4]

• Javier Cercas, The Speed of Light (translated from Spanish by Anne McLean)
• Yasmine Gooneratne, The Sweet & Simple Kind
• Gail Jones, Dreams of Speaking
• Sayed Kashua, Let It Be Morning (translated from Hebrew by Miriam Shlesinger)
• Yasmina Khadra, The Attack (translated from French by John Cullen)
• Patrick McCabe, Winterwood
• Andrei Makine, The Woman Who Waited (translated from French by Geoffrey Strachan)

2007

• Winner: Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses (translated from Norwegian by Anne Born)^[2]

Others shortlisted:

• Julian Barnes, Arthur & George
• Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way
• J.M. Coetzee, Slow Man
• Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
• Peter Hobbs, The Short Day Dying
• Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
• Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown

2006

• Winner: Colm Tóibín, The Master

Others shortlisted:

• Chris Abani, GraceLand
• Nadeem Aslam, Maps for Lost Lovers
• Ronan Bennett, Havoc in Its Third Year
• Jonathan Coe, The Closed Circle
• Jens Christian Grøndahl, An Altered Light (translated from Danish by Anne Born)
• Vyvyane Loh, Breaking the Tongue
• Margaret Mazzantini, Don't Move (translated from Italian by John Cullen)
• Yasmina Khadra, The Swallows of Kabul (translated from French by John Cullen)
• Thomas Wharton, The Logogryph

2005

• Winner: Edward P. Jones, The Known World

Others shortlisted:

• Diane Awerbuck, Gardening at Night
• Lars Saabye Christensen, The Half Brother (translated from Norwegian by Kenneth Steven)
• Damon Galgut, The Good Doctor
• Douglas Glover, Elle
• Arnon Grunberg, Phantom Pain (translated from Dutch by Sam Garrett)
• Shirley Hazzard, The Great Fire
• Christoph Hein, Willenbrock (translated from German by Philip Boehm)
• Frances Itani, Deafening
• Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude

2004

• Winner: Tahar Ben Jelloun, This Blinding Absence of Light (translated from French by Linda Coverdale)

Others shortlisted:

• Paul Auster, The Book of Illusions
• William Boyd, Any Human Heart
• Sandra Cisneros, Caramelo
• Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
• Maggie Gee, The White Family
• Amin Maalouf, Balthasar's Odyssey (translated from French by Barbara Bray)
• Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters
• Atiq Rahimi, Earth and Ashes (translated from the Dari by Erdağ M. Göknar)
• Olga Tokarczuk, House of Day, House of Night (translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)

2003

• Winner: Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red (translated from Turkish by Erdağ M. Göknar)

Others shortlisted:

• Dennis Bock, The Ash Garden
• Achmat Dangor, Bitter Fruit
• Per Olov Enquist, The Royal Physician's Visit
• Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
• Lidia Jorge, The Migrant Painter of Birds
• John McGahern, That They May Face the Rising Sun
• Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

2002

• Winner: Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles (aka Atomised) (translated from French by Frank Wynne)

Others shortlisted:

• Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang
• Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
• Michael Collins, The Keepers of Truth
• Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai
• Carlos Fuentes, The Years with Laura Diaz
• Antoni Libera, Madame

2001

• Winner: Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief

Others shortlisted:

• Margaret Cezair-Thompson, The True History of Paradise
• Silvia Molina, The Love You Promised Me
• Andrew O'Hagan, Our Fathers
• Victor Pelevin, Buddha's Little Finger
• Colm Tóibín, The Blackwater Lightship

2000

• Winner: Nicola Barker, Wide Open

Others shortlisted:

• Michael Cunningham, The Hours
• Jackie Kay, Trumpet
• Colum McCann, This Side of Brightness
• Alice McDermott, Charming Billy
• Toni Morrison, Paradise
• Philip Roth, I Married a Communist

1999

• Winner: Andrew Miller, Ingenious Pain

Others shortlisted:

• Jim Crace, Quarantine
• Don DeLillo, Underworld
• Francisco Goldman, The Ordinary Seaman
• Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
• Haruki Murakami, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
• Cynthia Ozick, The Puttermesser Papers
• Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

1998

• Winner: Herta Müller, The Land of Green Plums (translated from German by Michael Hofmann)

Others shortlisted:

• Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
• Andre Brink, Imaginings of Sand
• David Dabydeen, The Counting House
• David Foster, The Glade within the Grove
• Jamaica Kincaid, Autobiography of my Mother
• Earl Lovelace, Salt
• Lawrence Norfolk, The Pope's Rhinoceros
• Graham Swift, Last Orders
• Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy

1997

• Winner: Javier Marías, A Heart So White (translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa)

Others shortlisted:

• Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues
• Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
• Duong Thu, Novel Without A Name
• Antonio Tabucchi, Pereira Declares
• Lars Gustafsson, A Tiler's Afternoon
• A. J. Verdelle, The Good Negress
• Alan Warner, Morvern Callar

1996

• Winner: David Malouf, Remembering Babylon

Others shortlisted:

• John Banville, Ghosts
• V. S. Naipaul, A Way In The World
• Cees Nooteboom, The Following Story
• Connie Palmen, The Laws
• José Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
• Jane Urquhart, Away

Notes and references

External links

• The official website.
• Most honored books of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award shortlists

v • d • e The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Remembering Babylon (1996) · A Heart So White (1997) · The Land of Green Plums (1998) · Ingenious Pain (1999) · Wide Open (2000) · No Great Mischief (2001) · The Elementary Particles (2002) · My Name Is Red (2003) · This Blinding Absence of Light (2004) · The Known World (2005) · The Master (2006) · Out Stealing Horses (2007) · De Niro's Game (2008) · Man Gone Down (2009)