International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award logo
Presented by	Dublin City Public Libraries and Archive
Location	Dublin, Ireland
First awarded	1996
Official website	http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/

The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is an international literary award for a work of fiction, jointly sponsored by the city of Dublin, Ireland and the company IMPAC. At €100,000 it is one of the richest literary prizes in the world.^[1] Nominations are submitted by public libraries worldwide.

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 in 2005. If it is an English translation, the work must have been published in its original language in the same calendar year.^[2]

Process

Dublin City 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 following.

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.^[2]

The winner of the award is announced each June.

If the winning book is a translation, the prize is divided between the author and the translator, with the author receiving €75,000 and the translator €25,000.

Winners and nominees

Australian David Malouf won the first edition of the award in 1996.

Romanian-born German Nobel Laureate Herta Müller won for The Land of Green Plums in 1998.

French Michel Houellebecq won for Atomised/The Elementary Particles in 2002.

Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Parmuk won for My Name Is Red in 2003.

Colm Tóibín won for The Master in 2006 after being shortlisted for The Blackwater Lightship in 2001.

Norwegian Per Petterson won for Out Stealing Horses in 2007.

Canadian Rawi Hage won for De Niro's Game in 2008.

Colum McCann won for Let the Great World Spin in 2011.

Year	Winner	Novel	Shortlisted nominees & novels	Ref(s)
1996	David Malouf	Remembering Babylon	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
1997	Javier Marías	A Heart So White (translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa)	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
1998	Herta Müller	The Land of Green Plums (translated from German by Michael Hofmann)	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
1999	Andrew Miller	Ingenious Pain	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
2000	Nicola Barker	Wide Open	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
2001	Alistair MacLeod	No Great Mischief	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
2002	Michel Houellebecq	Atomised/The Elementary Particles (aka Atomised) (translated from French by Frank Wynne)	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
2003	Orhan Pamuk	My Name Is Red (translated from Turkish by Erdağ M. Göknar)	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
2004	Tahar Ben Jelloun	This Blinding Absence of Light (translated from French by Linda Coverdale)	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)
2005	Edward P. Jones	The Known World	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
2006	Colm Tóibín	The Master	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
2007	Per Petterson	Out Stealing Horses (translated from Norwegian by Anne Born)[3]	Julian Barnes – Arthur & George Sebastian Barry – A Long Long Way J.M. Coetzee – Slow Man Jonathan Safran Foer – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Peter Hobbs – The Short Day Dying Cormac McCarthy – No Country for Old Men Salman Rushdie – Shalimar the Clown
2008	Rawi Hage	De Niro's Game[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)	[5]
2009	Michael Thomas	Man Gone Down[3]	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
2010	Gerbrand Bakker	The Twin (translated from the Dutch by David Colmer)	Muriel Barbery – The Elegance of the Hedgehog (translated from the original French by Alison Anderson) Robert Edric – In Zodiac Light Christoph Hein – Settlement (translated from the original German by Philip Boehm) Zoë Heller – The Believers Joseph O'Neill – Netherland Ross Raisin – God's Own Country Marilynne Robinson – Home
2011	Colum McCann	Let the Great World Spin[6]	Michael Crummey – Galore Barbara Kingsolver – The Lacuna Yiyun Li – The Vagrants David Malouf – Ransom Joyce Carol Oates – Little Bird of Heaven Craig Silvey – Jasper Jones Colm Tóibín – Brooklyn William Trevor – Love and Summer Evie Wyld – After the Fire, A Still Small Voice	[7]

References

1. ^ "Dutch writer wins world's biggest literature prize". DutchNews.nl. 18 June 2010. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/06/dutch_writer_wins_worlds_bigge.php. Retrieved 18 June 2010. 
2. ^ ^{a b} FAQ
3. ^ ^{a b} "Debut novel by US writer wins Impac". The Irish Times. 11 June 2009. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0611/breaking49.htm. Retrieved 11 June 2009. 
4. ^ 2008 Winner
5. ^ 2008 Shortlist
6. ^ Taylor, Charlie (15 June 2011). "Colum McCann wins Impac award". The Irish Times. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0615/breaking34.html. Retrieved 15 June 2011. 
7. ^ "William Trevor makes an Impac", Irish Times, 12 April 2011

External links

• The official website