Shortlist for the 2014 IMPAC Dublin Award Announced

Posted on April 24, 2014

The shortlist for the IMPAC Dublin Award has been announced. The literary award is based in Dublin, Ireland, and is focused on finding the best new works of fiction from all over the world. Librarians from 39 countries submit entries for the award. The winner will be announced in Dublin on June 12th.

The award was created by the Dublin City Council. The award carries a prize of 100,000 Euros, which around $138,000. "This is a list of high quality literature that includes five novels in translation," said Deputy Lord Mayor Cllr. Henry Upton: "that is the beauty of this award -- readers around the world will find authors both familiar and new on what is a truly international shortlist."

The books that made this year's list were nominated by librarians from public libraries in Australia, Croatia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Norway, South Africa and The Netherlands. Here are the books that made the shortlist:

• The Detour by Gerbrand Bakker (Dutch), translated by David Colmer
• Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser (Sri Lankan / Australian)
• Absolution by Patrick Flanery (American)
• A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard (Norwegian), translated by Don Bartlett
• Three Strong Woman by Marie NDiaye (French), translated by John Fletcher
• Traveller of the Century by Andres Neuman (Argentinian), translated from the original Spanish by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia
• The Light of Amsterdam by David Park (Northern Irish)
• The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan (Irish)
• The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng (Malaysian)
• The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez (Colombian), translated from the original Spanish by Anne McLean