International Dublin Literary Award

The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the largest and most international prize of its kind for a single work of fiction published in English. It 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 Award is a joint initiative of the Dublin City Council, the Municipal Government of Dublin, Ireland, and the productivity improvement company IMPAC. The prize is €100,000.

The award is administered by Dublin City Libraries who seek nominations from public libraries from major cities across the world.

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

2006

• Winner: Colm Tóibín, The Master

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 the Danish by Anne Born)
• Vyvyane Loh, Breaking the Tongue
• Margaret Mazzantini, Don't Move (translated from the Italian by John Cullen)
• Yasmina Khadra, The Swallows of Kabul (translated from the French by John Cullen)
• Thomas Wharton, The Logogryph

2005

• Winner: Edward P. Jones, The Known World

Others shortlisted:

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

2004

• Winner: Tahar Ben Jelloun, This Blinding Absence of Light (translated from the French by Linda Coverdale)

Others shortlisted:

• 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 the French by Barbara Bray)
• Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters
• Atiq Rahimi, Earth and Ashes (translated from the Dari by Erdag M. Göknar)
• Olga Tokarczuk, House of Day, House of Night (translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)

2003

• Winner: Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red

Others shortlisted:

• 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

2002

• Winner: Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles (Atomised) (translated from the French by Frank Wynne)

Others shortlisted:

• 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

2001

• Winner: Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief

Others shortlisted:

• 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

2000

• Winner: Nicola Barker, Wide Open

Others shortlisted:

• 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

1999

• Winner: Andrew Miller, Ingenious Pain

Others shortlisted:

• 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

1998

• Winner: Herta Müller, The Land of Green Plums (translated from the German by Michael Hofmann)

Others shortlisted:

• 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

1997

• Winner: Javier Marias, A Heart So White

Others shortlisted:

• Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues
• Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
• Duong Thu, Novel Without A Name
• Antonio Tabucchi, Declares Pereira
• Lars Gustafsson, A Tiler's Afternoon
• A. J. Verdelle, The Good Negress
• Alan Warner, Morvern Callar

1996

• Winner: David Malouf, Remembering Babylon

Others shortlisted:

• John Banville, Ghosts
• V. S. Naipaul, A Way In The World
• Cees Nooteboom, The Following Story
• Connie Palmen, The Laws
• Jose Saramago, The Gospel According To Jesus Christ
• Jane Urquhart, Away

External links

• The official website.
• Most honored books of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award shortlists