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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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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]

[edit] 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 folllowing year.

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.

[edit] Winners and nominees

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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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

[edit] 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