International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
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The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is an international literary award
for a work of fiction, jointly sponsored by the city of Dublin, Ireland and the company IMPAC. At €100,000 it is one of the richest literary prizes in the world. Nominations are submitted by public libraries worldwide.
(the municipal government of Dublin, Ireland) and the productivity improvement company, IMPAC, and is administered by Dublin City Public Libraries
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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 in 2005. If it is an English translation, the work must have been published in its original language in the same calendar year
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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 year following.
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.
The winner of the award is announced each June.
If the winning book is a translation, the prize is divided between the author and the translator, with the author receiving €75,000 and the translator €25,000.
Literary award
A literary award is an award presented to an author who has written a particularly lauded piece or body of work. There are awards for forms of writing ranging from poetry to novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing . There are also awards...
for a work of fiction, jointly sponsored by the city of Dublin, Ireland and the company IMPAC. At €100,000 it is one of the richest literary prizes in the world. Nominations are submitted by public libraries worldwide.
Operators
The Award is a joint initiative of Dublin City CouncilDublin City Council
Dublin City Council is the local authority for the city of Dublin in Ireland. It has 52 members and is the largest local authority in Ireland. Until 2001, it was known as Dublin Corporation.-Legal status:...
(the municipal government of Dublin, Ireland) and the productivity improvement company, IMPAC, and is administered by Dublin City Public Libraries
Dublin City Public Libraries and Archive
Dublin City Public Libraries represents the largest library authority in the Republic of Ireland, serving over half a million people through a network of 41 branch libraries and service points....
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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 in 2005. If it is an English translation, the work must have been published in its original language in the same calendar year
Calendar year
Generally speaking, a calendar year begins on the New Year's Day of the given calendar system and ends on the day before the following New Year's Day. By convention, a calendar year consists of a natural number of days. To reconcile the calendar year with an astronomical cycle , certain years...
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Process
Dublin City Public Libraries seek nominations from public librariesPublic library
A public library is a library that is accessible by the public and is generally funded from public sources and operated by civil servants. There are five fundamental characteristics shared by 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 year following.
The longlist and shortlist are chosen by an international panel of judges which rotates each year. Allen Weinstein
Allen Weinstein
Allen Weinstein is an American historian, educator, and federal official who has served in several different offices. He served as the Archivist of the United States from February 16, 2005 until his resignation on December 19, 2008...
was the non-voting chair of the panel from 1996 to 2003. Eugene R. Sullivan
Eugene R. Sullivan
Eugene R. Sullivan is a former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. He was nominated to the Court by President Ronald Reagan, confirmed by the U.S. Senate and installed in 1986. President George H.W. Bush named him the Chief Judge in 1990...
is the non-voting chair from 2004 to the current date.
The winner of the award is announced each June.
If the winning book is a translation, the prize is divided between the author and the translator, with the author receiving €75,000 and the translator €25,000.
Winners and nominees
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| 1996 | David Malouf David Malouf David George Joseph Malouf is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was... |
Remembering Babylon Remembering Babylon Remembering Babylon is a book by David Malouf written in 1993. It won the inaugural IMPAC Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Award.... |
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| 1997 | Javier Marías Javier Marías Javier Marías is a Spanish novelist. He is also a translator and columnist.-Life:Javier Marías was born in Madrid. His father was the philosopher Julián Marías, who was briefly imprisoned and then banned from teaching for opposing Franco... |
A Heart So White A Heart So White A Heart So White by Javier Marías was first published in 1992 and received the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1997. Margaret Jull Costa's English translation was published by New Directions in 2000.-Summary:... (translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa Margaret Jull Costa Margaret Jull Costa is a translator of Portuguese and Spanish fiction and poetry, including the works of Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, Eça de Queiroz, Fernando Pessoa, Javier Marías and José Régio.-Works and awards:... ) |
Sherman Alexie Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. is a writer, poet, filmmaker, and occasional comedian. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a Native American. Two of Alexie's best known works are The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven , a book of short stories and Smoke Signals, a film... – Reservation Blues Reservation Blues Reservation Blues is a 1995 novel by Sherman Alexie. The novel follows the story of the rise and fall of a rock and blues band of Spokane Indians from the Spokane Reservation in Washington... Rohinton Mistry Rohinton Mistry is an Indian-born Canadian writer in English. Residing in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, Mistry is of Indian origin, originally from Mumbai, Zoroastrian and belongs to the Parsi community. Mistry is a Neustadt International Prize for Literature laureate .-Biography:Rohinton Mistry was... – A Fine Balance A Fine Balance A Fine Balance is the second book by Rohinton Mistry. Set in Mumbai, India between 1975 and 1984 during the turmoil of The Emergency, a period of expanded government power and crackdowns on civil liberties, this book is about four characters from varied backgrounds—Dina Dalal, Ishvar Darji,... Duong Thu -Notable works:* Ru em bằng tiếng sóng* Họa mi hót trong mưa* Hơi thở mùa xuân* Bay vào ngày xanh* Cho em một ngày* Đánh thức tầm xuân* Nghe mưa* Vẫn hát lời tình yêu* Em đi qua tôi* Bài hát ru cho anh... – Novel Without a Name Antonio Tabucchi Antonio Tabucchi is an Italian writer and academic who teaches Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy.... – Pereira Declares Sostiene Pereira (novel) Sostiene Pereira is a novel written by Antonio Tabucchi in 1994. It follows Pereira, a journalist for the culture column of a small Lisbon newspaper, as he struggles with his conscience and the restrictions of the fascist regime of Antonio Salazar... Lars Gustafsson Lars Gustafsson is a Swedish, poet, novelist and scholar. He was born in Västerås, completed his secondary education at the Västerås gymnasium and continued to Uppsala University; he received his Licentiate degree in 1960 and was awarded his Ph.D. in Theoretical Philosophy in 1978. He lived in... – A Tiler's Afternoon Alan Warner Alan Warner , a Scottish novelist, grew up in Connel, near Oban.He is the author of six novels: the acclaimed Morvern Callar , winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; These Demented Lands , winner of the Encore Award; The Sopranos , winner of the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award; The Man... – Morvern Callar Morvern Callar Morvern Callar was the debut novel by Scottish author Alan Warner, first published in 1995. Narrated in the first person, it tells the story of Morvern, who wakes up near Christmas to find her boyfriend dead in the kitchen:... |
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| 1998 | Herta Müller Herta Müller Herta Müller is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet and essayist noted for her works depicting the effects of violence, cruelty and terror, usually in the setting of Communist Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceauşescu regime which she experienced herself... |
The Land of Green Plums The Land of Green Plums The Land of Green Plums is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller, published in 1994 by Rowohlt Verlag. Perhaps Müller's best-known work, the story portrays four young people living in a totalitarian police state under the Soviet-imposed communist dictatorship in Romania, ending with... (translated from German by Michael Hofmann Michael Hofmann Michael Hofmann is a German-born poet who writes in English and a translator of texts from German.-Biography:... ) |
Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C... – Alias Grace Alias Grace Alias Grace is a historical fiction novel by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. First published in 1996 by McClelland & Stewart, it won the Canadian Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.... André Brink André Philippus Brink, OIS, is a South African novelist. He writes in Afrikaans and English and is a Professor of English at the University of Cape Town.... – Imaginings of Sand David Dabydeen David Dabydeen is a Guyanese-born critic, writer and novelist.Dabydeen was born in Berbice, Guyana, his birth registered at New Amsterdam Registrar of Births as David Horace Clarence Harilal Sookram... – The Counting House David Foster (novelist) David Manning Foster is an Australian novelist. He is one of the most adventurous writers of his generation, publishing a range of satires and considerations of the decline of Western civilization... – The Glade within the Grove The Glade within the Grove The Glade within the Grove is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author David Foster.-Awards:*International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 1998: shortlisted*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1997: winner... Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid is a Caribbean novelist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in the city of St. John's on the island of Antigua in the nation of Antigua and Barbuda... – Autobiography of my Mother Earl Lovelace For the peerage, see Earl of Lovelace.Earl Lovelace is a Trinidadian novelist, journalist, playwright, and short story writer.... – Salt Lawrence Norfolk Lawrence Norfolk is a British novelist known for historical works with complex plots and intricate detail. His novels also feature an unusually large vocabulary.... – The Pope's Rhinoceros Graham Swift Graham Colin Swift FRSL is a British author. He was born in London, England and educated at Dulwich College, London, Queens' College, Cambridge, and later the University of York. He was a friend of Ted Hughes... – Last Orders Last Orders Last Orders is a 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel by British author Graham Swift. In 2001 it was adapted for the film Last Orders by Australian writer and director Fred Schepisi.-Plot summary:... Guy Vanderhaeghe Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe, OC, SOM is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, best known for his two Western novels, The Englishman's Boy and The Last Crossing, set in the 19th century American and Canadian West... – The Englishman's Boy The Englishman's Boy The Englishman's Boy is a novel by Guy Vanderhaeghe, published in 1996 by McClelland and Stewart. It won the Governor General's Award for English language fiction in 1996, and was a nominee for the Giller Prize... |
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| 1999 | Andrew Miller Andrew Miller (novelist) Andrew Miller is an English novelist.He grew up in the West Country and has lived in Spain, Japan, Ireland and France.... |
Ingenious Pain Ingenious Pain Ingenious Pain is the first novel by English author, Andrew Miller, released on 20th February 1997 through Sceptre. The novel received universal acclaim and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour... |
Jim Crace James "Jim" Crace is a contemporary English writer. The winner of numerous awards, Crace also has a large popular following. He currently lives in the Moseley area of Birmingham with his wife... – Quarantine Quarantine (Jim Crace novel) Quarantine is a novel by Jim Crace. It was the winner of the 1997 Whitbread Novel Award, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction the same year.-Plot summary:Set in the Judean desert, 2000 years ago... Don DeLillo Don DeLillo is an American author, playwright, and occasional essayist whose work paints a detailed portrait of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries... – Underworld Underworld (DeLillo novel) Underworld is a postmodern novel published in 1997 by Don DeLillo. It was nominated for the National Book Award, was a best-seller, and is one of DeLillo's better-known novels.... Francisco Goldman Francisco Goldman is an American novelist, journalist, and Allen K. Smith Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, Trinity College. He is workshop director at , the journalism school for Latin-America created by Gabriel García Márquez... – The Ordinary Seaman Ian McEwan Ian Russell McEwan CBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist and screenwriter, and one of Britain's most highly regarded writers. In 2008, The Times named him among their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".... – Enduring Love Enduring Love Enduring Love is a 2004 British film directed by Roger Michell with screenwriter Joe Penhall, based on a novel by Ian McEwan. The story is about two strangers who become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. It stars Daniel Craig, Rhys Ifans and Samantha Morton with Bill Nighy,... Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered him critical acclaim and numerous awards, including the Franz Kafka Prize and Jerusalem Prize among others.He is considered an important figure in postmodern literature... – The Wind-up Bird Chronicle The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a novel by Haruki Murakami. The first published translation was by Alfred Birnbaum. The American translation and its British adaptation, dubbed the "only official translations" are by Jay Rubin and were first published in 1997... Cynthia Ozick Cynthia Ozick is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist. She is the niece of the Hebraist Abraham Regelson.-Background:Cynthia Shoshana Ozick was born in New York City, the second of two children... – The Puttermesser Papers The Puttermesser Papers The Puttermesser Papers is a novel written by Cynthia Ozick. It was published in 1997. It could also be considered a collection of short stories, as each of the five "chapters" were published previously in various magazines before being brought together as this book; however, the book has the... Bernhard Schlink Bernhard Schlink is a German jurist and writer. He was born in Bethel, Germany, to a German father and a Swiss mother, the youngest of four children. Both his parents were theology students, although his father lost his job as a Professor of Theology due to the Nazis, and had to settle on being a... – The Reader The Reader The Reader is a novel by German law professor and judge Bernhard Schlink, published in Germany in 1995 and in the United States in 1997... |
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| 2000 | Nicola Barker Nicola Barker Nicola Barker is an English novelist and short story writer.Typically she writes about damaged or eccentric people in mundane situations, and has a fondness for bleak, isolated settings. Wide Open and Behindlings are set respectively on the Isle of Sheppey and Canvey Island... |
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Michael Cunningham Michael Cunningham is an American writer, best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999.-Early life and education:... – The Hours The Hours (novel) The Hours is a 1998 novel written by Michael Cunningham. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was later made into an Oscar-winning 2002 movie of the same name starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore.-Plot introduction:The book... Jackie Kay Jackie Kay MBE is a Scottish poet and novelist.-Biography:Jackie Kay was born in Glasgow in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father, Jonathan C. Okafor who later became a prominent tropical plant taxonomist... – Trumpet Colum McCann Colum McCann is an Irish writer of literary fiction. He is a Professor of Contemporary Literature at European Graduate School and Professor of Fiction at CUNY Hunter College's Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing with fellow novelists Peter Carey, twice winner of the Man Booker Prize,... – This Side of Brightness Alice McDermott Alice McDermott is Johns Hopkins University's Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities. Born in Brooklyn, New York, McDermott attended St... – Charming Billy Toni Morrison Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved... – Paradise Paradise (novel) Paradise is a 1997 novel by Toni Morrison, and her first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. According to the author, it completes a "trilogy" that begins with Beloved and includes Jazz.... Philip Roth Philip Milton Roth is an American novelist. He gained fame with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus, an irreverent and humorous portrait of Jewish-American life that earned him a National Book Award... – I Married a Communist I Married a Communist I Married a Communist is a Philip Roth novel concerning the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, known as "Iron Rinn." The story is narrated by Nathan Zuckerman, and is one of a trio of Zuckerman novels Roth wrote in the 1990s depicting the postwar history of Newark, New Jersey and its residents.Ira and... |
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| 2001 | Alistair MacLeod Alistair MacLeod Alistair MacLeod, OC is a noted Canadian author and retired professor of English at the University of Windsor.- Academic career :... |
No Great Mischief No Great Mischief No Great Mischief is a 1999 novel by Alistair MacLeod.The novel opens in the present day, with successful orthodontist Alexander MacDonald visiting his elderly older brother Calum in Toronto, Ontario... |
Margaret Cezair-Thompson Margaret Cezair-Thompson is a Jamaican writer. Author of novels, The True History of Paradise and The Pirate's Daughter, Cezair-Thompson is also a professor of literature and creative writing at Wellesley College.- Early Life and Education :... – The True History of Paradise Andrew O'Hagan Andrew O'Hagan, FRSL is a Scottish novelist and non-fiction author. He is also an Editor at Large of Esquire and is currently a creative writing fellow at King's College London. He was selected by for inclusion in their 2003 list of the top 20 young British novelists. His novels appear... – Our Fathers Our Fathers (novel) Our Fathers is the debut novel by Scottish novelist Andrew O'Hagan. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize . It was also nominated for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the IMPAC Literary Award.... Victor Pelevin Victor Olegovich Pelevin is a Russian fiction writer. His books usually carry the outward conventions of the science fiction genre, but are used to construct involved, multi-layered postmodernist texts, fusing together elements of pop culture and esoteric philosophies... – Buddha's Little Finger Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín is a multi-award-winning Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and, most recently, poet.Tóibín is Leonard Milberg Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University in New Jersey and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the... – The Blackwater Lightship The Blackwater Lightship The Blackwater Lightship is a 1999 novel written by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín, and was short-listed for the Booker Prize.-Plot summary:The story is described from the viewpoint of Helen, a successful school principal living with her husband and two children in Ireland... |
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| 2002 | Michel Houellebecq Michel Houellebecq Michel Houellebecq , born Michel Thomas, 26 February 1958—or 1956 —on the French island of Réunion, is a controversial and award-winning French author, filmmaker and poet. To admirers he is a writer in the tradition of literary provocation that reaches back to the Marquis de Sade and Baudelaire;... |
Atomised/The Elementary Particles (aka Atomised) (translated from French by Frank Wynne Frank Wynne Frank Wynne is an Irish literary translator and writer.Born in Co. Sligo, Ireland, he worked as a comics editor at Fleetway and later at Deadline magazine . He worked for a time at AOL before becoming a literary translator... ) |
True History of the Kelly Gang True History of the Kelly Gang is an historical novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was first published in Brisbane by the University of Queensland Press in 2000. It won the 2001 Man Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the same year. Despite its title, the book is fiction and... Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C... – The Blind Assassin The Blind Assassin The Blind Assassin is an award-winning, bestselling novel by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood. It was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 2000. Set in Canada, it is narrated from the present day, referring back to events that span the twentieth century.The work was awarded the Man... Michael Collins (Irish author) Michael Collins is an Irish novelist and also an international ultra-distance runner. He is a current member of the Irish National Team for the 100k distance and holds the Irish national masters record over the 100k distance... – The Keepers of Truth Helen DeWitt Helen DeWitt is a novelist.DeWitt grew up primarily in South America , as her parents worked in the United States diplomatic service... – The Last Samurai Carlos Fuentes Carlos Fuentes Macías is a Mexican writer and one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. He has influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been widely translated into English and other languages.-Biography:Fuentes was born in... – The Years with Laura Diaz Antoni Libera Antoni Libera is a Polish writer, translator, literary critic, and theater director. He graduated from Warsaw University and received his Ph. D. from the Polish Academy of Sciences... – Madame |
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| 2003 | Orhan Pamuk Orhan Pamuk Ferit Orhan Pamuk , generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk, is a Turkish novelist. He is also the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches comparative literature and writing.... |
My Name Is Red My Name is Red My Name Is Red is a 1998 Turkish novel by Nobel laureate author Orhan Pamuk. The English translation won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2003,. The French version won the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger and the Italian version the Premio Grinzane Cavour in 2002... (translated from Turkish by Erdağ M. Göknar Erdag M. Göknar Erdağ Göknar, a scholar and literary translator, is Assistant Professor of Turkish Studies at Duke University. He is the award-winning translator of Orhan Pamuk's best-selling novel, My Name is Red , which ushered Pamuk onto the international stage and contributed to his selection as Nobel laureate... ) |
Dennis Bock Dennis Bock is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. His latest novel, The Communist's Daughter, published in 2006 by HarperCollins in Canada and Knopf in the US, and later in France, the Netherlands, Greece and Poland, is a retelling of the final years in the life of the Canadian surgeon... – The Ash Garden The Ash Garden The Ash Garden is a 2001 novel by Canadian author Dennis Bock. It is Bock's first novel, following on from Olympia, a collection of short stories published in 1998. The book follows the stories of three main characters affected by World War Two: Hiroshima bombing victim Emiko, German nuclear... Achmat Dangor Achmat Dangor is a South African writer. His most important works include the novels Kafka's Curse and Bitter Fruit , but he is also the author of three collections of poetry, a novella and a short-story collection... – Bitter Fruit Per Olov Enquist Per Olov Enquist, better known as P. O. Enquist, is a Swedish author. He has worked as a journalist, playwright and novelist... – The Royal Physician's Visit Jonathan Franzen Jonathan Franzen is an American novelist and essayist. His third novel, The Corrections , a sprawling, satirical family drama, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction... – The Corrections The Corrections The Corrections is a 2001 novel by American author Jonathan Franzen. It revolves around the troubles of an elderly Midwestern couple and their three adult children, tracing their lives from the mid-twentieth century to "one last Christmas" together near the turn of the millennium... Lídia Jorge Lídia Jorge is a prominent Portuguese novelist and author whose work is representative of a recent style of Portuguese writing, the so-called ‘Post Revolution Generation’... – The Migrant Painter of Birds John McGahern John McGahern was one of the most important Irish authors of the latter half of the twentieth century. Before his death in 2006 he was hailed as "the greatest living Irish novelist" by The Observer.-Life:... – That They May Face the Rising Sun Ann Patchett Ann Patchett is an American author. She received the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2002 for her novel Bel Canto. Patchett's other novels include Run, The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, and The Magician's Assistant, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize... – Bel Canto Bel Canto (novel) Bel Canto is a 2001 novel by American author Ann Patchett, published by Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. It was awarded both the Orange Prize for Fiction and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction... |
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| 2004 | Tahar Ben Jelloun Tahar Ben Jelloun Tahar Ben Jelloun is a Moroccan poet and writer. The entirety of his work is written in French, although his first language is Arabic.-Life:... |
This Blinding Absence of Light (translated from French by Linda Coverdale) |
Paul Auster Paul Benjamin Auster is an American author known for works blending absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy , Moon Palace , The Music of Chance , The Book of Illusions and The Brooklyn Follies... – The Book of Illusions The Book of Illusions The Book of Illusions is a novel by American writer Paul Auster, published in 2002.-Plot introduction:Set in the late 1980s, the story is written from the perspective of David Zimmer, a university professor who, after losing his wife and children in a plane crash, falls into a routine of depression... William Boyd (writer) William Boyd, CBE is a Scottish novelist and screenwriter.-Biography:Of Scottish descent, Boyd spent his early life in Ghana and Nigeria, in Africa... – Any Human Heart Any Human Heart Any Human Heart: The Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart is a 2002 novel by William Boyd, a Scottish writer. It is written as a lifelong series of journals kept by the protagonist, Logan Mountstuart, a writer whose life spanned the defining episodes of the twentieth century, crossed several... Sandra Cisneros Sandra Cisneros is an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories... – Caramelo Caramelo Caramelo is a 2002 novel by American author Sandra Cisneros. It was inspired by her Mexican heritage and childhood in the barrio of Chicago, Illinois. The main character, Lala, is the only girl in a family of seven children and her family often travels between Chicago and Mexico City... Jeffrey Eugenides Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer. Eugenides is most known for his first two novels, The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex . His novel The Marriage Plot was published in October, 2011.-Life and career:Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan,... – Middlesex Middlesex (novel) Middlesex is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Jeffrey Eugenides published in 2002. The book is a bestseller, with more than three million copies sold as of May 2011. Its characters and events are loosely based on aspects of Eugenides' life and observations of his Greek heritage. It is... Maggie Gee Maggie Mary Gee is an English novelist. She was born in Poole, Dorset, then moved to the Midlands and later to Sussex. She was educated at state schools and at Oxford University . She later worked in publishing and then had a research post at Wolverhampton Polytechnic where she completed a... – The White Family Amin Maalouf Amin Maalouf , born 25 February 1949 in Beirut, is a Lebanese-born French author. Although his native language is Arabic, he writes in French, and his works have been translated into many languages. He received the Prix Goncourt in 1993 for his novel The Rock of Tanios... – Balthasar's Odyssey Balthasar's Odyssey Balthasar's Odyssey is a 2000 novel by Amin Maalouf set in 17th century Europe and Levant . Originally written in French, it was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2004.... (translated from French by Barbara Bray Barbara Bray Barbara Bray was a British translator and critic.An identical twin , she was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, where she read English, with papers in French and Italian... ) Rohinton Mistry Rohinton Mistry is an Indian-born Canadian writer in English. Residing in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, Mistry is of Indian origin, originally from Mumbai, Zoroastrian and belongs to the Parsi community. Mistry is a Neustadt International Prize for Literature laureate .-Biography:Rohinton Mistry was... – Family Matters Atiq Rahimi Atiq Rahimi is a French-Afghan writer and film-maker.-Life:He was born in 1962 in Kabul to a senior public servant and attended high school in Lycée Esteqlal... – Earth and Ashes (translated from the Dari by Erdağ M. Göknar Erdag M. Göknar Erdağ Göknar, a scholar and literary translator, is Assistant Professor of Turkish Studies at Duke University. He is the award-winning translator of Orhan Pamuk's best-selling novel, My Name is Red , which ushered Pamuk onto the international stage and contributed to his selection as Nobel laureate... ) Olga Tokarczuk Olga Tokarczuk is one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful Polish writers of her generation, particularly noted for the hallmark mythical tone of her writing. She trained as a psychologist at the University of Warsaw. She has published a collection of poems, three novels,... – House of Day, House of Night (translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) |
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| 2005 | Edward P. Jones Edward P. Jones Edward Paul Jones is an American novelist and short story writer. His 2003 novel The Known World received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.-Biography:... |
The Known World The Known World The Known World is a 2003 historical novel by Edward P. Jones. It was his first novel and second book. Set in antebellum Virginia, it examines issues regarding the ownership of black slaves by free black people as well as by whites... |
Diane Awerbuck Diane Awerbuck is a South African novelist. Her novel, Gardening at Night, won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Africa.She taught at Rustenburg Girls' High School until 2002.Her non-fiction has appeared in the Mail & Guardian.... – Gardening at Night Lars Saabye Christensen Lars Saabye Christensen, born 21 September 1953 in Oslo, is a Norwegian author.Saabye Christensen was raised in the Skillebekk neighbourhood of Oslo, but lived for many years in Sortland in northern Norway; both places play a major role in his work... – The Half Brother (translated from Norwegian by Kenneth Steven) Damon Galgut Damon Galgut is an award-winning South African playwright and novelist.-Life and career:Galgut was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1963. His family, of European stock, had strong ties to the South African judiciary. When he was six years old, Galgut was diagnosed with cancer, a trauma which he... – The Good Doctor Douglas Glover Douglas Glover may refer to:* Douglas Glover , British politician* Douglas Glover , Canadian writer presently living in New York state... – Elle Arnon Grünberg Arnon Yasha Yves Grunberg is a Dutch writer. Some of his books were written using the heteronym Marek van der Jagt.... – Phantom Pain (translated from Dutch by Sam Garrett) Shirley Hazzard Shirley Hazzard is an Australian author of fiction and nonfiction. She was born in Australia, but holds citizenship in Great Britain and the United States... – The Great Fire The Great Fire (novel) The Great Fire is the 2003 National Book Award winning novel by the Australian author Shirley Hazzard. It also won a 2004 Miles Franklin literary award.-Overview:The New Yorker wrote of the novel:Hazzard is nothing if not discriminating... Christoph Hein Christoph Hein is a German author and translator.He grew up in the village Bad Düben near Leipzig. Being a clergyman's son and thus not allowed to attend the Erweiterte Oberschule, he received secondary education at a gymnasium in the western part of Berlin. After his Abitur he jobbed inter alia... – Willenbrock (translated from German by Philip Boehm) Frances Itani Frances Susan Itani is a Canadian fiction writer, poet and essayist.Itani was born in Belleville, Ontario and grew up in Quebec. She studied nursing in Montreal and North Carolina, a profession which she taught and practised for eight years. However, after enrolling in a writing class taught by W. O... – Deafening Deafening Deafening is a 2003 novel written by Frances Itani.Author Frances Itani brings the reader to a small, pre-World War I Ontario town called Deseronto, where the O'Neil family owns a hotel. The book follows the story of Grania O'Neil, a girl who lost her hearing when she was five years old as a result... Jonathan Lethem Jonathan Allen Lethem is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. It was followed by three more science fiction novels... – The Fortress of Solitude |
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| 2006 | Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín is a multi-award-winning Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and, most recently, poet.Tóibín is Leonard Milberg Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University in New Jersey and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the... |
The Master The Master (novel) The Master is a novel by Irish writer Colm Tóibín. It is his fifth novel and it was shortlisted for the 2004 Booker Prize and received the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year Award and, in France, Le prix du meilleur livre... |
Chris Abani Christopher Abani is a Nigerian author. Abani's first novel, Masters of the Board, was about a Neo-Nazi takeover of Nigeria... – GraceLand Nadeem Aslam Nadeem Aslam is a prize-winning British Pakistani novelist.-Biography:Aslam moved with his family to England aged 14, when his father, a Communist, fled President Zia's regime. The family settled in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire... – Maps for Lost Lovers Maps for Lost Lovers Maps for Lost Lovers is a novel by the British Pakistani writer Nadeem Aslam. Ostensibly about the murder of a pair of lovers, the book is in fact a minute dissection of working-class Pakistani immigrant communities that have settled in the north of England over the last 40 years.Aslam spent 11... Ronan Bennett Ronan Bennett is a Northern Irish novelist and screenwriter. He was raised in a devout Roman Catholic family headed by William H. and Geraldine Bennett at 420 Merville Garden Village in the Whitehouse area of Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland. Since its development in the late-1940s, Merville has... – Havoc in Its Third Year Jonathan Coe Jonathan Coe is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name... – The Closed Circle The Closed Circle The Closed Circle may refer to:*The Closed Circle , a novel by Jonathan Coe*The Closed Circle: An interpretation of the Arabs, a book by David Pryce-Jones... Jens Christian Grøndahl Jens Christian Grøndahl is a Danish writer.His novel An Altered Light was shortlisted for the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.-Bibliography:*Kvinden i midten - 1985*Syd for floden - 1986... – An Altered Light (translated from Danish by Anne Born) Vyvyane Loh Vyvyane Loh is a Malaysian-American novelist, choreographer, and physician.-Biography:Loh was born in Ipoh, Malaysia of an ethnic Chinese family. She grew up in Singapore and completed a degree in Biology and Classics at Boston University in the United States... – Breaking the Tongue Margaret Mazzantini Margaret Mazzantini is an Italian writer and actress. She became a film, television and stage actor, but is best known as a writer. Mazzantini began her acting career in 1980 starring in the cult horror classic Antropophagus, she has also appeared in television and theatre... – Don't Move (translated from Italian by John Cullen) Yasmina Khadra Yasmina Khadra is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul .-Biography:Moulessehoul, an officer in the Algerian army, adopted a woman's pseudonym to avoid military censorship... – The Swallows of Kabul (translated from French by John Cullen) Thomas Wharton -Life:Born in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Wharton attended the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary. He was a student of Rudy Wiebe and Greg Hollingshead. His first novel began as his M.A. thesis, under the supervision of Kristjana Gunnars. He worked on his PhD at Calgary with Aritha... – The Logogryph |
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| 2007 | Per Petterson Per Petterson Per Petterson is a Norwegian novelist. Petterson's debut was Aske i munnen, sand i skoa , a collection of short stories. He has since published a number of novels to good reviews. To Siberia , a novel set in the Second World War, was published in English in 1998 and nominated for the Nordic... |
Out Stealing Horses Out Stealing Horses Out Stealing Horses is a 2003 Norwegian novel by Per Petterson. It was translated into English in 2005 by Anne Born, published in the UK that year, and in the US in 2007. Among other awards it won the 2007 Dublin IMPAC Award, one of the richest literary prizes in the world.Out Stealing Horses has... (translated from Norwegian by Anne Born) |
Julian Barnes Julian Patrick Barnes is a contemporary English writer, and winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize, for his book The Sense of an Ending... – Arthur & George Arthur & George Arthur & George is the tenth novel by English author Julian Barnes which takes as its basis the true story of the 'Great Wyrley Outrages.'-Plot introduction:... Sebastian Barry Sebastian Barry is an Irish playwright, novelist, and poet. He has been shortlisted twice for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and has won the 2008 Costa Book of the Year.... – A Long Long Way A Long Long Way A Long Long Way is a novel by Irish author Sebastian Barry set during the First World War. The protagonist Willie Dunne leaves Dublin to fight for the Allies as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers... Slow Man Slow Man is a 2005 novel by South African/Australian author J. M. Coetzee, and concerns a man who must learn to adapt after losing a leg in a road accident. The novel has many varied themes, including the nature of care, the relationship between an author and his characters, and man's drive to... Jonathan Safran Foer Jonathan Safran Foer is an American author best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close... – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a 2005 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer.The book's narrator is a nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell. Two years before the story begins, Oskar's father dies on 9/11... Peter Hobbs Peter Hobbs is a British novelist.He grew up in Cornwall and North Yorkshire and was educated at New College, Oxford. He began writing during a prolonged illness that cut short a potential diplomatic career.... – The Short Day Dying Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and modernist genres. He received the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for The Road... – No Country for Old Men No Country for Old Men No Country for Old Men is a 2005 novel by U.S. author Cormac McCarthy. Set along the United States–Mexico border in 1980, the story concerns an illicit drug deal gone wrong in a remote desert location. The title comes from the poem "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats... Shalimar the Clown Shalimar the Clown is a 2005 novel written by Salman Rushdie, who also wrote The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children.Shalimar the Clown was published in September 2005 and has attracted significant attention, comparable to his earlier publications, particularly The Moor's Last Sigh and... |
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| 2008 | Rawi Hage Rawi Hage -Early life and education:Born in Beirut, Hage grew up in Lebanon and Cyprus. He moved to New York City in 1984. In 1991, he relocated to Montreal, where he studied Photography at Dawson College and Fine Arts at Concordia University. He subsequently began exhibiting as a photographer, and has had... |
De Niro's Game De Niro's Game De Niro's Game is the debut novel by Lebanese-Canadian writer Rawi Hage, originally published in 2006.The novel's primary characters are Bassam and George, lifelong friends living in wartorn Beirut... |
Javier Cercas Javier Cercas is a writer and, since 1989, a Professor of Spanish literature at the University of Girona, Spain. He is a frequent contributor to the Catalan edition of El País and the Sunday supplement... – The Speed of Light (translated from Spanish by Anne McLean) Gail Jones Gail Jones is an Australian novelist and academic.-Early life and career:Gail Jones was born in Harvey, Western Australia and educated at the University of Western Australia... – Dreams of Speaking Dreams of Speaking -Themes:The novel explores the themes of the creative writing process, memory, loneliness and cross-cultural friendships.-Epigraph:"Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking" - Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet-Awards:... Sayed Kashua Sayed Kashua is an Israeli Arab author and journalist born in Tira, Israel, known for his books and humoristic columns in Hebrew.-Biography:... – Let It Be Morning (translated from Hebrew by Miriam Shlesinger) Yasmina Khadra Yasmina Khadra is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul .-Biography:Moulessehoul, an officer in the Algerian army, adopted a woman's pseudonym to avoid military censorship... – The Attack (translated from French by John Cullen) Andreï Makine Andreï Makine is a Russian-born French author. He also publishes under the pseudonym Gabriel Osmonde. Makine's novels include Dreams of My Russian Summers which won two top French awards, the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Médicis.-Biography:Andreï Makine was born in Krasnoyarsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet... – The Woman Who Waited (translated from French by Geoffrey Strachan) |
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| 2009 | Michael Thomas Michael Thomas (author) Michael Thomas is an American author. He won the 2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his debut novel Man Gone Down, receiving a prize of €100,000. Man Gone Down is also recommended by The New York Times.-Early and personal life:... |
Man Gone Down Man Gone Down Man Gone Down is the debut novel of U.S. author Michael Thomas. It won the 2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, with Thomas receiving a prize of €100,000... |
Junot Díaz Junot Díaz is a Dominican-American writer and creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience... – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a best-selling novel written by Dominican author Junot Díaz. Although a work of fiction, the novel is set in New Jersey where Díaz was raised and deals explicitly with his ancestral homeland's experience under dictator Rafael Trujillo... Jean Echenoz Jean Echenoz is a French writer.Son of a psychiatrist, Echenoz studied in Rodez, Digne-les-Bains, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille and Paris, where he lives since 1970. He published his first book, Le méridien de Greenwich in 1979... – Ravel (translated from the original French by Linda Coverdale Linda Coverdale Linda Coverdale lives in Brooklyn, New York, and has a Ph.D in French Literature. She has translated into English more than 60 works by such authors as Roland Barthes, Emmanuel Carrère, Patrick Chamoiseau, Maryse Condé, Marie Darrieussecq, Jean Echenoz, Annie Ernaux, Sébastien Japrisot, Tahar Ben... ) Mohsin Hamid Mohsin Hamid is a Pakistani author best known for his novels Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist .- Biography :... – The Reluctant Fundamentalist The Reluctant Fundamentalist The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a novel by Mohsin Hamid, published in 2007.The novel uses the technique of a frame story, which takes place during the course of a single evening in an outdoor Lahore cafe, where a bearded Pakistani man called Changez tells a nervous American stranger about his love... Travis Holland Travis Holland is an American writer. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, Glimmer Train and Five Points, and his debut novel The Archivist’s Story was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He holds an MFA from the University of Michigan where he twice received the Hopwood... – The Archivist's Story Roy Jacobsen Roy Jacobsen is a Norwegian novelist and short-story writer. Born in Oslo, he made his publishing début in 1982 with the short-story collection Fangeliv , which won Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris... – The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles (translated from the original Norwegian by Don Shaw and Don Bartlett Don Bartlett Donald "Don" Bartlett is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta.Until April 26, 2006, Barlett played lead for Kevin Martin.... ) David Leavitt David Leavitt is an American novelist.-Biography:Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Leavitt is a graduate of Yale University. and a professor at the University of Florida... – The Indian Clerk The Indian Clerk The Indian Clerk is a novel by David Leavitt, published in 2007. It is inspired by the career of the self-taught mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, as seen mainly through the eyes of his mentor and collaborator G.H. Hardy, a British mathematics professor at Cambridge University... Indra Sinha Indra Sinha is a British writer of English and Indian descent. Formerly a copywriter for Ogilvy & Mather, London, and, from 1984, Collett Dickenson Pearce & Partners, Sinha has the distinction of having been voted one of the top ten British copywriters of all time... – Animal's People Animal's People Animal's People is a novel by Indra Sinha. It was shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize and is the Winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers's Prize:Best Book From Europe & South Asia. Sinha's narrator is a 19-year-old orphan of Khaufpur, born a few days before the 1984 Bhopal disaster, whose... |
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| 2010 | Gerbrand Bakker Gerbrand Bakker (novelist) Gerbrand Bakker is a Dutch writer. He won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2010 for the English translation of his novel, The Twin . He was the first Dutch writer to win this award, the world's most lucrative individual literary award, with a €100,000 prize... |
The Twin The Twin The Twin is a novel by Dutch writer Gerbrand Bakker. It won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2010, making Bakker the first Dutch writer to win the award, the world's most expensive individual literary award, with a €100,000 prize. Boven is het stil was published in 2006 and The... (translated from the Dutch by David Colmer) |
Muriel Barbery Muriel Barbery is a French novelist and professor of philosophy.-Biography:Barbery studied at the Lycée Lakanal, entered the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud in 1990 and obtained her agrégation in philosophy in 1993... – The Elegance of the Hedgehog The Elegance of the Hedgehog The Elegance of the Hedgehog is a novel by the French novelist and professor of philosophy Muriel Barbery. The book follows events in the life of a concierge, Renée Michel, whose deliberately concealed intelligence is uncovered by an unstable but intellectually precocious girl named Paloma Josse... (translated from the original French by Alison Anderson) Robert Edric Robert Edric is the pseudonym of Gary Edric Armitage, a British novelist born in Sheffield.His trilogy of detective novels, Cradle Song, Siren Song, and Swan Song, also known as the "Song Cycle," are set in the city of Hull.... – In Zodiac Light Christoph Hein Christoph Hein is a German author and translator.He grew up in the village Bad Düben near Leipzig. Being a clergyman's son and thus not allowed to attend the Erweiterte Oberschule, he received secondary education at a gymnasium in the western part of Berlin. After his Abitur he jobbed inter alia... – Settlement (translated from the original German by Philip Boehm) Zoë Heller Zoë Kate Hinde Heller is an English journalist and novelist.-Early life:Heller was born in North London as the youngest of four children of German-Jewish immigrant Lukas Heller, who was a successful screenwriter. Her mother was instrumental in keeping up the Labour Party's "Save London Transport... – The Believers The Believers (novel) The Believers is a novel by Zoë Heller first published in 2008. It depicts a left-wing New York family of grown-ups who have little in common... Joseph O'Neill (born 1964) Joseph O'Neill is a Irish novelist and non-fiction writer. O'Neill's novel Netherland was awarded the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.-Life:... – Netherland Netherland Netherland is a critically acclaimed novel by Joseph O'Neill. It concerns the life of a Dutchman living in New York in the wake of the September 11 attacks who takes up cricket and starts playing at the Staten Island Cricket Club.-Plot summary:... Ross Raisin Ross Raisin is a British novelist. He was born in Keighley in Yorkshire, and after attending Bradford Grammar School he studied English at King's College London, which was followed by a period as a trainee wine bar manager and a postgraduate degree in creative writing at Goldsmith's... – God's Own Country Marilynne Robinson -Biography:Robinson was born and grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho, and did her undergraduate work at Pembroke College, the former women's college at Brown University, receiving her B.A., magna cum laude in 1966, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her Ph.D... – Home Home (novel) Home is a novel written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Marilynne Robinson. Published in 2008, it is Robinson's third novel, preceded by Housekeeping in 1980 and Gilead in 2004.... |
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| 2011 | Colum McCann Colum McCann Colum McCann is an Irish writer of literary fiction. He is a Professor of Contemporary Literature at European Graduate School and Professor of Fiction at CUNY Hunter College's Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing with fellow novelists Peter Carey, twice winner of the Man Booker Prize,... |
Let the Great World Spin Let the Great World Spin Let the Great World Spin is a novel by author Colum McCann about New York City. The book received the 2009 National Book Award for fiction, and the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, one of the most lucrative prizes in the world.-Plot:... |
Michael Crummey Michael Crummey is a Canadian poet and writer.Born in Buchans, Newfoundland and Labrador, Crummey grew up there and in Wabush, Labrador, where he moved with his family in the late 1970s. He began to write poetry while studying at Memorial University in St. John's, where he received a B.A. in... – Galore Barbara Kingsolver Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist and poet. She was raised in rural Kentucky and lived briefly in the former Republic of Congo in her early childhood. Kingsolver earned degrees in biology at DePauw University and the University of Arizona and worked as a freelance writer before... – The Lacuna Yiyun Li Yiyun Li is a Chinese American writer. Her debut short story collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers won the 2005 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and her second collection Gold Boy, Emerald Girl was shortlisted for the same award... – The Vagrants David Malouf David George Joseph Malouf is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was... – Ransom Ransom (Malouf novel) Ransom is a novel by Australian author David Malouf. It retells the story of the Iliad from books 16 to 24.It is studied in Australian high schools as an English text.-Summary and Analysis:... Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction... – Little Bird of Heaven Little Bird of Heaven Little Bird of Heaven is a 2009 novel by Joyce Carol Oates. It is her 38th published novel. The novel is the third set in the fictional city of Sparta, NY, which was also a main setting for her two previous best-sellers We Were the Mulvaneys and The Gravedigger's Daughter.-Plot summary:When a... Craig Silvey Craig Silvey is an Australian novelist and musician.Silvey grew up on an orchard at Dwellingup in the south-west of Western Australia. He currently lives in Fremantle.-Literary career:... – Jasper Jones Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín is a multi-award-winning Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and, most recently, poet.Tóibín is Leonard Milberg Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University in New Jersey and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the... – Brooklyn Brooklyn (novel) -Plot summary:Eilis Lacey is a young woman who is unable to find work in 1950s Ireland. Her older sister Rose organizes a meeting with Father Flood visiting from New York. He tells Eilis of the wonderful opportunities awaiting her with very good employment prospects. Because of this she emigrates... William Trevor William Trevor, KBE is an Irish author and playwright. He is considered one of the elder statesman of the Irish literary world and widely regarded as the greatest contemporary writer of short stories in the English language.... – Love and Summer Evie Wyld Evie Wyld is the author of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winning novel After the Fire, A Still Small Voice. In 2010 she was listed by The Daily Telegraph as one of the twenty best British authors under the age of 40.... – After the Fire, A Still Small Voice After the Fire, A Still Small Voice After the Fire, A Still Small Voice is the debut novel by author Evie Wyld published in August 2009 by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Pantheon Books in the US. It won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Betty Trask Award. and was also shortlisted for both the Orange Award for New Writers and... |