The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Every year we nominate three books for the IMPAC award.

The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the largest and most international prize of its kind. The Award is a joint initiative of Dublin Corporation, the Municipal Government of Dublin City, and the productivity improvement company IMPAC. It involves libraries from all corners of the globe, and is open to books written in any language.

See the website at http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/

2009 longlist

2008

De Niro's Game winner

Rawi Hage

The Speed of Light

Javier Cercas, Translated from the original Spanish by Anne McLean

The Sweet & Simple Kind

Yasmine Gooneratne

Dreams of Speaking

Gail Jones

Let it be Morning

Sayed Kashua, Translated from the original Hebrew by Miriam Shlesinger

The Attack

Yasmina Khadra, Translated from the original French by John Cullen

Winterwood

Patrick McCabe

The Woman who Waited

Andrei Makine, Translated from the original French by Geoffrey Strachan

2007

Out Stealing Horses Winner

Per Petterson, translated from Norwegian by Anne Born

Arthur and George

Julian Barnes

A Long Long Way

Sebastian Barry

Slow Man

J.M. Coetzee

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Jonathan Safran Foer

The Short Day Dying

Peter Hobbs

No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy

Shalimar the Clown

Salman Rushdie

2006

The Master Winner

Colm Tóibín

GraceLand

Chris Abani

Maps For Lost Lovers

Nadeem Aslam

Havoc in Its Third Year

Ronan Bennett

The Closed Circle

Jonathan Coe

An Altered Light

Jens Christian Grøndahl (translated from the Danish by Anne Born)

The Swallows of Kabul

Yasmina Khadra (translated from the French by John Cullen)

Don't Move

Margaret Mazzantini (translated from the Italian by John Cullen)

The Logogryph

Thomas Wharton

2005

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

2004

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

2003

• My Name is Red Orhan Pamuk (translated from the Turkish by Erdag Goknar) Winner
• The Ash garden Dennis Bock
• Bitter fruit Achmat Dangor
• The Visit of the Royal Physician Per Olov Enquist - also published as The Royal Physician's Visit (translated from the Swedish by Tiina Nunnelly)
• The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
• The Migrant painter of birds Lidia Jorge - also published as The Painter of Birds (translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa)
• That they may face the rising sun John McGahern - also published as By the Lake
• Bel Canto Ann Patchett

2002

• Atomised (also published as The Elementary particles ) Michel Houellebecq Winner
• The Blind assassin Margaret Atwood
• True history of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey
• The Keepers of truth Michael Collins
• The Last samurai Helen DeWitt
• The Years with Laura Diaz Carlos Fuentes
• Madame Antoni Libera

2001

• No great mischief Alastair McLeod Winner
• The Love you promised me Silvia Molina
• The True history of Paradise Margaret Cezair-Thompson
• The Blackwater lightship Colm Toibin
• Our fathers Andrew O'Hagan
• The Clay machine-gun Victor Pelevin

2000

• Wide open Nicola Barker Winner
• The Hours Michael Cunningham
• Trumpet Jackie Kay
• This side of brightness Colum McCann
• Charming Billy Alice McDermott
• Paradise Toni Morrison
• I married a communist Philip Roth

1999

• Ingenious pain Andrew Miller Winner
• Quarantine Jim Crace
• Underworld Don DeLillo
• The Ordinary seaman Francisco Goldman
• Enduring Love Ian McEwan
• The Wind-up bird chronicle Haruki Murakami (translated by Jay Rubin)
• The Reader Bernard Schlink (translated by Carol Brown Janeway)
• The Puttermesser papers Cynthia Ozick

1998

• The Land of green plums Herta Muller (translated by Michael Hofmann) Winner
• Alias Grace Margaret Atwood
• Imaginings of sand Andre Brink
• The Counting House David Dabydeen
• The Glade within the grove David Foster
• Autobiography of my mother Jamaica Kincaid
• The Pope's Rhinoceros Lawrence Norfolk
• Last Orders Graham Swift
• The Englishman's boy Guy Vanderhaeghe

1997

• A Heart so white Javier Marias (translated by Margaret Jull Costa) Winner
• Reservation blues Sherman Alexie
• A fine balance Rohinton Mistry
• Novel without a name Duong Thu Huong
• Declares Pereira Antonio Tabucchi
• A Tiler's afternoon Lars Gustaffson
• The Good Negress A J Verdelle- also published as The Rain coming
• Morvern Callar Alan Warner

1996

• Remembering Babylon David Malouf Winner
• Ghosts John Banville
• A Way in the world V S Naipaul
• The Following story Cees Noteboom (translated by Ina Rilke)
• The Laws Connie Palmen (translated by Richard Huijing)
• The Gospel according to Jesus Christ Jose Saramago (translated by Giovanni Pontiero)
• Away Jane Urquhart