Eight novels by Irish authors are among the 154 books that
have been nominated by 120 libraries worldwide for the €100,000 International
IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual literary prize
for a single work of fiction published in English. ‘This is the highest number of Irish authors
ever to be nominated in any one year by libraries around the world for the
IMPAC DUBLIN Award’ said Margaret Hayes, Dublin City Librarian. ‘It says a lot
for the high quality of writing coming from Irish writers currently and it
reinforces Dublin’s status as
UNESCO City of Literature’. The 154 nominations for the award come from 120 cities and
44 countries worldwide. 42 are titles in translation, spanning 19 languages and
47 are first novels’
The Irish titles are:
On Canaan’s Side by Sebastian Barry,
nominated by San Diego Public
Library, USA
and by Dublin City Libraries.
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry,
nominated by Cork City Libraries, Limerick City Library and Dublin
City Public Libraries.
The Absolutist by John Boyne, nominated
by Liverpool City Library and Tampere City Library, Finland.
The Dulang Washer by Paul Callan,
nominated by The National Library of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpar.
Long Time, No See by Dermot Healy
nominated by Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek, Norway
and The Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow,
Russia
The Cold Eye of Heaven by Christine
Dwyer Hickey, nominated by Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek, Norway
Twice Born by author Margaret
Mazzantini, nominated by Waterford County Library, Ireland and by Biblioteca
Nazionale Centrale di Roma, Italy
Double Talk by Patrick Warner,
nominated by The Provincial Resource Library, St. John’s,
Newfoundland, Canada
The most nominated book is The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, which received fifteen
nominations from libraries in Australia,
Belgium, Canada,
Croatia, Czech
Republic, Germany,
Greece, Ireland,
The Netherlands, The UK and the USA.
Other books nominated by multiple libraries are The Sisters Brothers by Canadian writer, Patrick de Witt, and two
debut American novels, The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach, and TheTiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht.
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