International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award Shortlist

Ten novels have been shortlisted for the International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award. The winner will take home €100,000 for what is the world’s most valuable annual literary award for a single work of fiction published in English. 

The shortlisted titles are:

1. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigerian) Published by Fourth Estate and by Alfred
A. Knopf.
2. Horses of God by Mahi Binebine (Moroccan) Translated from French by Lulu Norman. Published
by Tin House Books.
3. Harvest by Jim Crace (British) Published by Picador and by Alfred A. Knopf.
4. The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (Australian) Published by Vintage
Australia.
5. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (Australian) First Novel. Published by Little, Brown & Company and
by Picador Australia.
6. K by Bernardo Kucinski (Brazilian) Translated from Portuguese by Sue Branford. Published by
Latin American Bureau.
7. Brief Loves That Live Forever by Andreï Makine (French, Russian-born) Translated from French
by Geoffrey Strachan. Published by MacLehose Press.
8. TransAtlantic by Colum McCann (Irish) Published by Bloomsbury Publishing, Random House Inc.
and HarperCollins Canada.
9. Someone by Alice McDermott (American) Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
10. Sparta by Roxana Robinson (American) Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

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Impac Dublin prize shortlist spans continents

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