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News Archive EMBARGOED: 19.30, Wednesday, 15th June 2011 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award 2011
"Colum McCann joins a long list of eminent novelists to win this award" said the Lord Mayor and Patron of the Award, Gerry Breen, “and it is wonderful and fitting to have a Dublin winner in the year that Dublin was awarded UNESCO City of Literature designation, a designation in perpetuity.” Let the Great World Spin has beaten off competition from 161 other titles, nominated by 166 public libraries from 43 countries. It was first published in the USA by Random House and in the UK by Bloomsbury. The shortlist of ten novels included novels from the USA, Australia, Canada, and Ireland. Colum McCann is the second Irish author to win the prize. It was award to Colm Toibín in 2006 for The Master. About the book….. The judging panel commented. “This is a remarkable literary work, a genuinely 21st Century novel that speaks to its time but is not enslaved by it. The human condition, the kindness and cruelty shown from one man to another, the ways in which we suffer and triumph, are subjects which have resonated through fiction for centuries. In each generation, writers explore these themes and rephrase the questions that our humanity asks of us. There are few answers in this novel. Its beguiling nature leaves the reader with as much uncertainty as we feel throughout our lives, but therein lies the power of fiction and of this book in particular.
Let the Great World Spin was also the most popular choice of libraries worldwide. It received 14 nominations from libraries in Ireland, Germany, Greece, Norway, the USA and Canada. Notes for Editors John Boyne was born in Dublin in 1971. He is the author of 8 novels, including the international bestsellers Mutiny On The Bounty, The House of Special Purpose and The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, His books are published in over 40 languages. The Non-voting Chairperson, Hon. Eugene R. Sullivan, is a former Chief Judge of a US Court of Appeals and brings a wealth of experience from sixteen years on the bench. His first novel, The Majority Rules, was published in 2005. His second novel of his political thriller trilogy, The Report to the Judiciary, was published in 2008.-ENDS- ********************************************************************************* FAOI LÁNCHOSC: 19.30, Dé Céadaoin, 15ú Meitheamh 2011 Duais Liteartha Bhaile Átha Cliath IMPAC Idirnáisiúnta 2011 An buaiteoir fógartha ag 19.30, Dé Céadaoin 15ú Meitheamh ag Dinnéar Gléasta Sháraigh Let the Great World Spin 161 teideal eile a bhí ainmnithe ag 166 leabharlann phoiblí in 43 tír. Ba iad Random House sna Stáit Aontaithe agus Bloomsbury sa Ríocht Aontaithe a d’fhoilsigh ar dtús é. Cuireadh úrscéalta as na Stáit Aontaithe, an Astráil, Ceanada agus Éirinn ar an ngearrliosta deich n-úrscéal. Is é Colum McCann an dara húdar Éireannach a bhfuil an duais buaite aige. Bronnadh an duais ar Colm Toibín in 2006 as The Master. Blaiseadh beag den leabhar….. Seo mar a thrácht an painéal moltóireachta. Ba é Let the Great World Spin ba mhó a raibh tóir air ag leabharlanna ar fud an domhain. Bhí 14 ainmniúchán faighte aige ó leabharlanna in Éirinn, sa Ghearmáin, sa Ghréig, san Iorua, sna Stáit Aontaithe agus i gCeanada. Nótaí d’Eagarthóirí Rugadh John Boyne i mBaile Átha Cliath in 1971. Tá 8 n-úrscéal scríofa aige, lena n-áirítear leabhair a raibh móréileamh orthu go hidirnáisiúnta amhail Mutiny On The Bounty, The House of Special Purpose agus The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas. Foilsíodh a chuid leabhar i mbreis is 40 teanga. Iar-Phríomhbhreitheamh de chuid na Cúirte Achomharc sna Stáit Aontaithe é an tOnórach Eugene R. Sullivan, an Cathaoirleach gan chead vótála. Tá taithí na mblianta aige as a bheith ar an mbinse le sé bliana déag. Foilsíodh an chéad úrscéal uaidh, The Majority Rules, sa bhliain 2005. Foilsíodh The Report to the Judiciary sa bhliain 2008, an dara húrscéal ina thriológ de scéinséirí polaitíochta.-CRÍOCH- **************************************************************************************************8 12th April 2011 3 Irish Authors short listed for the The short list will be confirmed by 10 novels have been shortlisted for the International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award, from a total of 162 novels nominated by 166 public library systems in 126 cities worldwide. For the first time, the shortlist includes novels by three Irish authors; Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, Brooklyn by Colm Toibín and Love and Summer by William Trevor. The International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award is worth €100,000 and is the world’s most prestigious literary prize nominated by public libraries world-wide. The short listed titles are:
“It’s a wonderful coincidence that so shortly after Dublin being awarded UNESCO City of Literature status, three of the ten novels on the IMPAC DUBLIN Award shortlist should be by Irish authors”, says Lord Mayor Gerry Breen. “I wish all the shortlisted authors well and remind Dubliners that the shortlisted novels are all available to borrow from Dublin City public libraries, so there is time to read them all and pick your own favourite, between now and 15th June when I announce the Award winner”.
The five member international judging panel, chaired by Hon. Eugene R. Sullivan, will select one winner which will be announced by The Patron of the Award, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Gerry Breen on Wednesday, 15th June 2011. ************************************************************* The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is managed by Dublin City Libraries, on behalf of Dublin City Council. It is sponsored by IMPAC, an international management productivity company with its European headquarters in Dublin. The Award is presented annually with the objective of promoting excellence in world literature. 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 in the specified time period as outlined in the rules and conditions for the year. Nominations are submitted by library systems in major cities throughout the world. Recent previous winners of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award include:
Attached: Profiles of International Judges ENDS For further information: Dublin City Council Press Office 087 7400277 The judges are: John Boyne was born in Dublin in 1971. He is the author of 8 novels, including the international bestsellers Mutiny On The Bounty, The House of Special Purpose and The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, His books are published in over 40 languages. Susan Bassnett is a writer and professor of comparative literature at the University of warwick. She is the author of over 20 books, which include translations, collections of her poetry,and academic writing. Recent publications include a study of Ted Hughes(2009)and a co-authored book on translation and global news (2010). Tessa Hadley has written three novels: Accidents in the Home, (2002) 2002, (longlisted for the Guardian First Book award); Everything Will Be All Right, (2003) and The Master Bedroom, (2007). A new novel, The London Train, will be out in January 2011. She reviews for The London Review of Books and The Guardian. Tessa is a Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Studies at Bath Spa University. Nancy Huston was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1953 and has been living in Paris since 1973. She writes both fiction and non-fiction, in both French and English, translating herself in both directions. Fault Lines, her eleventh novel, won France's Prix Femina, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and has been translated into over thirty languages. Michael Hofmann was born in Freiburg, Germany, in 1957, and moved to England in 1961. Since 1983, he has been a freelance writer and reviewer. In 1993, he was offered a teaching post at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He is the author of four books of poems and a Selected Poems, a book of criticism called Behind the Lines, and the translator of many German authors, In 1998, his translation of Herta Müller’s The Land of Green Plums won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Hon. Eugene R. Sullivan, is a former Chief Judge of a US Court of Appeals and brings a wealth of experience from sixteen years on the bench. His first novel, The Majority Rules, was published in 2005. The second novel of his political thriller trilogy, The Report to the Judiciary, was published in 2008. Judge Sullivan is currently a senior partner in Freeh Group International, a global consultant group of former judges based in Washington DC: Wilmington, Delaware; London and Rome.
For further information: Dublin City Council Press Office 087 7400277
Preaseisiúint Lánchosc go dtí an 12 Aibreán Fógróidh Ardmhéara Bhaile Átha Cliath, Gerry Breen, an gearrliosta Roghnaíodh an gearrliosta 10 dteideal as 162 úrscéal san iomlán a d'ainmnigh 166 córas leabharlann in 123 cathair ar fud an domhain agus ar an liosta sin tá Let the Great World Spin le Colum McCann, Brooklyn le Colm Toibín agus Love and Summer le William Trevor. Is í Duais Litríochta Idirnáisiúnta IMPAC Bhaile Átha Cliath, an duais litríochta is cáiliúla atá bunaithe ar ainmniúcháin a dhéanann leabharlanna ar fud an domhain Dhaingnigh Ardmhéara Bhaile Átha Cliath agus Pátrún na Duaise, Gerry Breen, teidil na leabhar ar ghearrliosta na bliana seo, teidil a d’ainmnigh leabharlanna poiblí san Astráil, in Barbadós, sa Bheilg, i gCeanada, i Sasana, sa Ghearmáin, sa Ghréig, in Éirinn, sa Nua-Shéalainn, san Iorua, sa Pholainn, in Albain, sa Rúis, san Aifric Theas, san Eilvéis, agus i Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá. Is iad na teidil ar an ngearrliosta:
Tá cúigear ar an bpainéal moltóireachta agus an tOnórach Eugene R. Sullivan i gceannas air, agus roghnóidh siad aon bhuaiteoir amháin agus déanfaidh Pátrún na Duaise, Ardmhéara Bhaile Átha Cliath, Gerry Breen, an buaiteoir a fhógairt Dé Céadaoin an 15 Meitheamh 2011. Is iad Leabharlanna Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath a bhainistíonn Duais Litríochta Idirnáisiúnta IMPAC Bhaile Átha Cliath thar ceann Chomhairle Cathrach Bhaile Átha Cliath. Is é IMPAC, cuideachta idirnáisiúnta bainistithe táirgiúlachta a bhfuil ceanncheathrú don Eoraip i mBaile Átha Cliath aici, urraitheoir na Duaise. Bronntar an Duais gach bliain chun údair ar fud an domhain a spreagadh leis an gcaighdeán is airde a bhaint amach sa litríocht. Tá an comórtas oscailte d’úrscéal ar bith i dteanga ar bith agus d’údair de chuid náisiúin ar bith ach an saothar a bheith foilsithe i mBéarla nó a bheith aistrithe go Béarla laistigh de thréimhse atá sonraithe, mar a mhínítear sna rialacha agus sna coinníollacha don bhliain. Cuireann córais leabharlann i gcathracha móra ar fud an domhain ainmniúcháin isteach. Is féidir gach úrscéal a ainmnítear a fheiceáil ag www.impacdublinaward.ie I measc na dteideal a ghnóthaigh Duais Litríochta Idirnáisiúnta IMPAC Bhaile Átha Cliath le blianta beaga anuas bhí:
I gceangal leis seo tá: Próifíl na Moltóirí Idirnáisiúnta A CHRÍOCH SIN Chun tuilleadh eolais a fháil: Preasoifig, Comhairle Cathrach Bhaile Átha Cliath 086 8150010 Is iad na moltóirí: John Boyne, John Boyne: rugadh i mBaile Átha Cliath in 1971 é. Is údar ar 8 úrscéal é, agus ina measc tá Mutiny on The Bounty, The House of Special Purpose agus The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, ar leabhair iad a bhfuil ard-éileamh idirnáisiúnta orthu. Tá eagráin dá chuid leabhar foilsithe i mbreis agus 40 teanga. Susan Bassnett: is scríbhneoir í agus í ina hollamh le litríocht chomparáideach in Ollscoil Warwick. Is údar í ar bhreis agus 20 leabhar, agus orthu sin tá aistriúcháin, bailiúcháin dá cuid filíochta agus scríbhinní acadúla. I measc na bhfoilseachán is déanaí uaithi tá staidéar ar Ted Hughes (2009) agus leabhar ar an aistriúchán agus nuacht domhanda (2010). Tessa Hadley:tá trí úrscéalta scríofa aici, mar atá Accidents in the Home, (2002) (ar an liosta fada le haghaidh dhuais Chéad Leabhar an Guardian); Everything Will Be All Right, (2003) agus The Master Bedroom, (2007). Beidh úrscéal nua dá cuid, The London Train, amuigh i mí Eanáir 2011. Scríobhann sí léirmheasanna don London Review of Books agus don Guardian. Is Léachtóir Sinsearach le Béarla agus Staidéar Cruthaitheach í Tessa in Ollscoil Bath Spa. Nancy Huston: rugadh in Calgary, Alberta í in 1953. Ó 1973 ar aghaidh is i bPáras atá cónaí uirthi. Scríobhann sí idir fhicsean agus neamhfhicsean, i bhFraincis agus i mBéarla, agus aistríonn sí a cuid saothar féin ó Fhraincis go Béarla agus ó Bhéarla go Fraincis.Bhain an 11ú húrscéal uaithi, dar teideal Fault Lines, Prix Femina na Fraince; cuireadh ar an ngearrliosta é le haghaidh Dhuais Orange, agus tá aistriúcháin déanta air i mbreis agus 30 teanga. Michael Hofmann: rugadh in Freiburg, sa Ghearmáin é sa bhliain 1957, agus d’aistrigh cónaí go Sasana sa bhliain 1961. Ó 1983 ar aghaidh, tá sé ag obair mar scríbhneoir agus léirmheastóir neamhspleách. Sa bhliain 1993, tairgeadh post teagaisc dó in Ollscoil Florida, Gainesville. Is údar é ar cheithre leabhar filíochta, ar bhailiúchán dá rogha féin agus ar leabhar léirmheastóireachta dar teideal Behind the Lines. Tá saothair de chuid a lán údar Gearmánach aistrithe aige. Sa bhliain 1998, bhain an t-aistriúchán a rinne sé ar leabhar Herta Müller, The Land of Green Plums, Duais Litríochta Idirnáisiúnta IMPAC Bhaile Átha Cliath. An tOnórach Eugene R. Sullivan: Is iar-Phríomhbhreitheamh de chuid Chúirt Achomharc na Stát Aontaithe é agus taithí mhór aige i ndiaidh sé bliana déag a chaitheamh ar an mBinse. Foilsíodh an chéad úrscéal uaidh, The Majority Rules, in 2005. In 2008, foilsíodh The Report to the Judiciary, an dara húrscéal uaidh i dtríológ de scéinséirí polaitiúla dá chuid. Faoi láthair is comhpháirtí sinsearach é an Breitheamh Sullivan de chuid Freeh Group International, grúpa domhanda comhairleachta d’iarbhreithiúna atá lonnaithe in Washington DC, in Wilmington, Delaware, i Londain agus sa Róimh.
Chun tuilleadh eolais a fháil: Preasoifig, Comhairle Cathrach Bhaile Átha Cliath 086 8150010 *******************************************************************************************************************************
15th November 2010
FOUR IRISH NOVELS on the2011 IMPAC DUBLIN long list!15th November 2010 – Embargo 23.59 Sunday 14th November
Brooklyn by Colm Toibín, nominated by libraries in Belgium, England, Ireland, Switzerland, South Africa, New Zealand and the USA. Love and Summer by William Trevor, nominated by libraries in Ireland and the USA. John the Revelator by Peter Murphy, nominated by Limerick City Library, Ireland.
Margaret Hayes, Dublin City Librarian announced that a total of 162 titles have been nominated for the €100,000 Award, the world’s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English - “In the year when Dublin was designated as a City of Literature by UNESCO, it is wonderful that four Irish authors have been nominated for the €100,000 Award next year”, she says. “Two of the Irish authors were also the most popular choices by libraries worldwide, with Colum McCann’s novel receiving 14 nominations and Colm Tóibín receiving 13 nominations.” The 162 eligible nominations come from 126 cities and 43 countries worldwide. 42 are titles in translation, spanning 14 languages and 35 are first novels. The 2011 Judging Panel includes Irish author, John Boyne; Susan Bassnett, British writer, translator and academic; Nancy Huston, Canadian / French author; Michael Hofmann, German poet and translator and Tessa Hadley, Welsh author and academic. The Non-voting Chairperson is Eugene R. Sullivan. The shortlist will be made public on 12th April 2011 and the Lord Mayor will announce the winner on 15th June. Full details can be viewed on www.impacdublinaward.ie. -2- Notes for Editors: Novels nominated for the 2011 Award include Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize, The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver, winner of the 2010 Orange Prize and Brodeck’s Report by Phillippe Claudel, winner of the 2010 Independent Prize for Fiction. Among the 42 translated authors are; Jean Echenoz, Hélène Cixous, Dubravka Ugresic, Amos Oz and Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza. Previous winners are also well represented with novels by David Malouf, (1996 Winner) Orhan Pamuk, (2003 Winner) Tahar Ben Jelloun, (2004 Winner) Javier Marias, (1997 Winner) and Colm Toibín, (2006 Winner) all on the 2011 list. ************************************************************************************************ Previous winners:
3- Judges 2011 award. John Boyne was born in Dublin in 1971. He is the author of 8 novels, including the international bestsellers Mutiny On The Bounty, The House of Special Purpose and The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, his books are published in over 40 languages. Susan Bassnett is a writer and professor of comparative literature at the University of Warwick. She is the author of over 20 books, which include translations, collections of her poetry,and academic writing. Recent publications include a study of Ted Hughes (2009)and a co-authored book on translation and global news (2010). Tessa Hadley has written three novels: Accidents in the Home, (2002), (longlisted for the Guardian First Book award); Everything Will Be All Right, (2003) and The Master Bedroom, (2007). A new novel, The London Train, will be out in January 2011. She reviews for The London Review of Books and The Guardian. Tessa is a Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Studies at Bath Spa University. Nancy Huston was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1953 and has been living in Paris since 1973. She writes both fiction and non-fiction, in both French and English, translating herself in both directions. Fault Lines, her eleventh novel, won France's Prix Femina, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and has been translated into over thirty languages. Michael Hofmann was born in Freiburg, Germany, in 1957, and moved to England in 1961. Since 1983, he has been a freelance writer and reviewer. In 1993, he was offered a teaching post at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He is the author of four books of poems and a Selected Poems, a book of criticism called Behind the Lines, and the translator of many German authors, In 1998, his translation of Herta Müller’s The Land of Green Plums won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The Non-voting Chairperson, Hon. Eugene R. Sullivan, is a former Chief Judge of a US Court of Appeals and brings a wealth of experience from sixteen years on the bench. His first novel, The Majority Rules, was published in 2005. The second novel of his political thriller trilogy, The Report to the Judiciary, was published in 2008.*****************************************************************************************************************************
17th June 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2010
"Gerbrand Bakker joins a long list of eminent novelists to win this award" said the Lord Mayor and Patron of the Award, Cllr. Emer Costello, "and having a novel in translation as the winner, means that this beautifully written Dutch novel will come to the attention of readers world-wide, who might otherwise never have come across it. Dublin City Council and IMPAC are extremely proud that the IMPAC DUBLIN Award has grown into one of the highlights, not only of the Irish, but also of the international literary calendar". The Twinbeat off competition from 155 other titles, nominated by 163 public libraries from 43 countries. Translated from the original Dutch by David Colmer, The Twin was first published in English by Harvill Secker, UK in 2008 and in Dutch by Cossee, Amsterdam in 2006. The shortlist of eight novels included novels from the USA, UK, France, Germany and Netherland by Irish author Joseph O’Neill.
When Helmer’s twin brother dies in a car accident, he is obliged to return to the small family farm. He resigns himself to taking over his brother’s role and spending the rest of his days ‘with his head under a cow’. The judging panel, which this year included English author Anne Fine, commented…
For further information: Dublin City Council press office: 086 815 0010 ***************************************************************************
Anne Fine has written eight highly acclaimed novels for adults and is also one of Britain's most prestigious writers for children, having twice won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. In 2003 she was awarded an OBE for her contribution to literature. Her work has been translated into thirty five languages. She has two daughters, and lives in County Durham. Her website is www.annefine.co.uk. Eve Patten is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, where she specialises in Irish writing and in the nineteenth and twentieth-century novel. She regularly reviews new fiction for the Irish Times and is an essayist for the British Council's Contemporary Writers series (www.contemporarywriters.com). She was awarded Fellowship of Trinity College in 2005, and lives in Dublin with her husband and two children. Abdourahman Waberi is a major writer from the African nation of Djibouti. An essayist, novelist, teacher, poet and short story writer, Waberi is partially based in France and has been named one of the 50 Writers of the Future by the French literary mag Lire. His latest novel in English, “In the United States of Africa” is a bold and fantastic vision of an Africa never before presented in literature. Zoë Wicomb is a South African writer. Her critical work focuses on South African writing and culture. Her fiction includes You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town, David's Story, Playing in the Light, short stories in various collections, and her latest novel, The One that Got Away. She is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. -ENDS- ************************************************************************************************************************
April 12th, 2010 at 11.00am in The Mansion House, Dublin Irish Author shortlisted The shortlist of the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award was announced by The shortlist of 8 titles was selected from a total of 156 novels nominated by 163 public library systems in 123 cities worldwide and includes Netherland by Irish author Joseph O’Neill. The International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award is the world’s most prestigious literary prize nominated by public libraries world-wide. Once again an Irish title has been shortlisted, proof, if it were needed, that Irish contemporary fiction can hold its own on the worldwide stage. John Banville, Sebastian Barry, Ronan Bennett, Michael Collins, Patrick McCabe, Colum McCann and John McGahern have all been shortlisted since 1996. Colm Toibín has been shortlisted twice, and was the winner in 2006 for The Master. The short listed titles are:
The five member judging panel, chaired by Hon. Eugene R. Sullivan, will select one winner from the short list which will be announced by The Patron of the Award, The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Cllr. Emer Costello on Thursday June 17th 2010. ************************************************************* The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is managed by Dublin City Libraries, on behalf of Dublin City Council. It is sponsored by IMPAC, an international management productivity company with its European headquarters in Dublin. The Award is presented annually with the objective of promoting excellence in world literature. 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 in the specified time period as outlined in the rules and conditions for the year. Nominations are submitted by library systems in major cities throughout the world. All the novels nominated can be viewed on www.impacdublinaward.ie. Recent previous winners of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award include:
Attached: Profiles of International Judges ENDS For further information: Dublin City Council Press Office 086 8150010 The judges are: Anne Fine has written eight highly acclaimed novels for adults and is also one of Britain's most prestigious writers for children, having twice won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. Among her other prizes are the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, two Smarties awards, and many other regional and foreign prizes. In 2003 Anne became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. As Children's Laureate she set up www.myhomelibrary.org, offering free downloadable modern bookplates, and published three anthologies of classic and modern poetry for different age groups, called A Shame to Miss 1, 2 & 3. In 2003 she was awarded an OBE for her contribution to literature. Her work has been translated into thirty five languages. She has two daughters, and lives in County Durham. Her website is www.annefine.co.uk. Eve Patten is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, where she specialises in Irish writing and in the nineteenth and twentieth-century novel. She has published widely on contemporary British and Irish fiction and is a contributing author to the Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel (2006). She regularly reviews new fiction for the Irish Times and is an essayist for the British Council's Contemporary Writers series (www.contemporarywriters.com). Her recent books include That Island Never Found (2007) and Literatures of War (2008), and she is author of a forthcoming study of the novelist Olivia Manning. She was awarded Fellowship of Trinity College in 2005, and lives in Dublin with her husband and two children. Abdourahman Waberi is a major writer from the African nation of Djibouti. An essayist, novelist, teacher, poet and short story writer, Waberi is partially based in France and has been named one of the 50 Writers of the Future by the French literary mag Lire. Most of his works were originally published in French. His latest novel in English, “In the United States of Africa” [trans David and Nicole Ball, Nebraska Press], is a bold and fantastic vision of an Africa never before presented in literature. PASSAGE DES LARMES, published in August 09 in Paris. is both a thriller devoted to his beloved country endangered by Islamist Fundamentalists and a subtle homage to German Jew philosopher Walter Benjamin. Hon. Eugene R. Sullivan, is a former Chief Judge of a US Court of Appeals and brings a wealth of experience from sixteen years on the bench. His first novel, The Majority Rules, was published in 2005. The second novel of his political thriller trilogy, The Report to the Judiciary, was published in 2008. Judge Sullivan is currently a senior partner in Freeh Group International, a global consultant group of former judges based in Washington DC: Wilmington, Delaware; London and Rome.
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2nd November 2009 TWO IRISH AUTHORS NOMINATED FOR THE 2010 INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDMonday 2nd November 2009: Novels by two Irish writers; The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry, winner of the 2009 Costa Prize and Netherland by Joseph O’Neill, longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker prize have been nominated for the prestigious 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Cllr. Emer Costello, Lord Mayor of Dublin announced today that 156 titles have been nominated for the €100,000 Award. It is the world’s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English and is a Dublin City Council initiative, in partnership with IMPAC. The nominations come from 163 libraries in 123 cities and 43 countries worldwide. Dublin City Council will announce the shortlist on 14th April 2010. The Lord Mayor will reveal the winning novel on 17th June 2010. Other books among the 156 novels nominated include The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas, winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize: Home by Marilynne Robinson, winner of the 2009 Orange Prize and The Armies by Evelio Rosero, winner of the 2009 Independent Prize for Fiction.
Two writers from the North of Ireland were also nominated, David Park for The Truth Commissioner and Deirdre Madden for Molly Fox’s Birthday. The 156 authors come from 46 countries. The books span 18 languages, 41 of which are translated from languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Icelandic, Serbian and Slovenian. 33 are first novels. “These are books that might not otherwise come to the attention of Irish readers”, says Deirdre Ellis-King, Dublin City Librarian. “The spread of languages and the number of books in translation continues to grow”. This year at 41 novels, we have the largest number of books in translation to date.” Translated authors include Arnaldur Indridason, Andrei Makine, José Saramago, Ma Jian and Zoran Zivkovic. Indian writer, Aravind Adiga is the libraries favorite with 9 nominations for The White Tiger, A Mercy by Toni Morrison, The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway, The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery and The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry all received 8 nominations. The 2010 Judging Panel Anne Fine has written eight highly acclaimed novels for adults and is also one of Britain's most prestigious writers for children, having twice won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. Among her other prizes are the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, two Smarties awards, and many other regional and foreign prizes. In 2003 Anne became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. As Children's Laureate she set up www.myhomelibrary.org, offering free downloadable modern bookplates, and published three anthologies of classic and modern poetry for different age groups, called A Shame to Miss 1, 2 & 3. In 2003 she was awarded an OBE for her contribution to literature. Her work has been translated into thirty five languages. She has two daughters, and lives in County Durham. Her website is www.annefine.co.uk. Anatoly (Anthony) Kudryavitsky was born in 1954 in Moscow of a Polish father and half-Irish mother. He lives in Co. Dublin and writes in both English and Russian. His novel titled The Case-Book of Inspector Mylls has been published by Zakharov Books (Moscow, Russia) in 2008. He has also published a novella, a number of short stories, seven books of his Russian poems and two collections of his English poems, as well as an anthology of contemporary Russian poetry in English translation. His poems and short stories have been translated into eleven languages. He was the recipient of a number of literary awards. Eve Patten is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, where she specialises in Irish writing and in the nineteenth and twentieth-century novel. She has published widely on contemporary British and Irish fiction and is a contributing author to the Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel (2006). She regularly reviews new fiction for the Irish Times and is an essayist for the British Council's Contemporary Writers series (www.contemporarywriters.com). Her recent books include That Island Never Found (2007) and Literatures of War (2008), and she is author of a forthcoming study of the novelist Olivia Manning. She was awarded Fellowship of Trinity College in 2005, and lives in Dublin with her husband and two children. Abdourahman Waberi is a major writer from the African nation of Djibouti. An essayist, novelist, teacher, poet and short story writer, Waberi is partially based in France and has been named one of the 50 Writers of the Future by the French literary mag Lire. Most of his works were originally published in French. His latest novel in English, In the United States of Africa [trans David and Nicole Ball, Nebraska Press], is a bold and fantastic vision of an Africa never before presented in literature. Passages Des Larmes, published in August 09, is both a thriller devoted to his beloved country endangered by Islamist Fundamentalists and a subtle homage to German Jew philosopher Walter Benjamin. The Non-voting ChairpersonHon. Eugene R. Sullivan, is a former Chief Judge of a US Court of Appeals and brings a wealth of experience from sixteen years on the bench. His first novel, The Majority Rules, was published in 2005. His second novel of his political thriller trilogy, The Report to the Judiciary, was published in 2008. Judge Sullivan is currently a senior partner in Freeh Group International, a global consultant group of former judges based in Washington DC: Wilmington, Delaware; London and Rome. Previous winners of the prestigious award include:
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****************************************************************************** 9th October 2009 Previous Award Recipient Herta Müller wins Nobel Literature Prize
Herta Müller won the 1998 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award for her novel, The Land of Green Plums, nominated by Stadt-und Universitatsbibliothek Bern, Switzerland. The international judging panel, comprising Greg Gatenby, Margo Glantz, Märta Tikkanen, Paul Muldoon and Al Young said: The novel brilliantly evokes a world of cruelty and oppression. Set in Communist Romania under the Ceausescu dictatorship, The Land of Green Plums portrays the lives of a group of dissident students and teachers whose integrity is continuously assailed and sometimes betrayed. Herta Müller’s stark and vivid prose explores a terror-stricken society of mendacity and political slander. The “green plums” of the title stand in part for truth and its brutal suppression in a world of interrogators and informers, where speaking out can become a matter of life and death. The author’s style, achieves a Spartan eloquence, and the novel’s individual characters are powerfully drawn. This elegantly understated book is at once bleak and beautiful, humorous and heartbreaking. The judges congratulate Herta Müller for her compelling literary achievement in The Land of Green Plums. She is a worthy winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Herta Müller is the second winner to have been awarded a Nobel Prize. Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish writer who won the 2003 award for his novel My Name is Red, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006.
****************************************************************************************************** 22nd September 2009 The organising committee of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award has learned with sadness of the death on Monday 21st September 2009, at his home in Litchfield, USA, of Dr. James B. Irwin Snr., Chairman of IMPAC, a sponsoring company to the award, and extends its condolences to his family and colleagues. ***************************************************************************** 11th June 2009 ‘Man Gone Down’ surfaces to win Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas scoops the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the world’s richest literary prize, announced today by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Éibhlin Byrne, Patron of the Award.
The winning novel, first published by Grove Atlantic, USA, and a New York Times top ten book of 2007, was chosen from a shortlist of eight, which included novels from the USA, France, India, Pakistan and Norway. Man Gone Down was published by Atlantic Books, UK in 2009. “The first person narrator in Man Gone Down has not fallen, yet. But he stands at a precipice. A black man from Boston married to a white woman with whom he has three children. A once promising Harvard student now broke and working in construction in Brooklyn. When we meet the narrator, he’s had to leave his wife and children with his disapproving mother-in-law, and now has just four days to raise the money necessary to reunite the family and return the children to school.” (Judges’ citation) Éibhlin Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin said. “This year, as has been the case so many times in the past, readers from every corner of the world have uncovered wonderful novels that otherwise may never have grasped public attention. Dublin City Council, Dublin City Libraries and IMPAC are extremely proud that the event has grown into one of the highlights not only of the Irish, but also of the international, literary calendar.” The judging panel, which this year included Irish academic and writer James Ryan, commented; “We never know his name. But the African-American protagonist of Michael Thomas’ masterful debut, Man Gone Down, will stay with readers for a long time. He lingers because this extraordinary novel comes to us from a writer of enthralling voice and startling insight. Tuned urgently to the way we live now, the winner of the International Dublin IMPAC Prize 2009 is a novel brilliant in its scope and energy, and deeply moving in its human warmth.” Uniquely, the IMPAC DUBLIN receives its nominations from public libraries around the globe. Man Gone Down was nominated by The National Library Service of Barbados, Bridgetown, which described it as “A vibrant, well written first novel, an exploration of identity, inter-racial relationships and societal values through the eye of a black male.” Also shortlisted were The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz; The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles by Roy Jacobsen, in translation; Ravel by Jean Echenoz, in translation; Animal’s People by Indra Sinha; The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid; The Archivist’s Story by Travis Holland and The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt. The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is managed by Dublin City Libraries, on behalf of Dublin City Council. It is sponsored by IMPAC, an international management productivity company with its European headquarters in Dublin. The Award is presented annually to promote excellence in world literature. 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 in the specified time period as outlined in the rules and conditions for the year. Nominations are submitted by library systems in major cities throughout the world. All the novels nominated can be viewed on www.impacdublinaward.ie. Previous winners of the prestigious award include: De Niro’s Game by Rawi Hage (2008), Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (2007) and The Master by Colm Tóibín (2006) This year there were five members of the international panel of judges chaired by Hon. Eugene R. Sullivan; Gabrielle Alioth, Swiss award winning author of novels including Derr Narr (The Fool ) (1998) and most recently The Bride from Bysantium (2008), travel and children’s books. Gabrielle lectures at the Lucerne School of Art and Design. Rachel Billington, English journalist and author of nineteen novels, non-fiction and children’s books including Lies & Loyalties (2008). Rachel is ex President of English PEN and remains vice-President. She is a trustee of the Longford Trust, which was set up in memory of her father, Lord Longford. Vesna Goldsworthy Serbian/British author of Inventing Ruritania: the imperialism of the imagination, (1998), which is on the reading list of some sixty universities worldwide, and Chernobyl Strawberies. She is Reader in English and Creative Writing at Kingston University, London. James Ryan is the Irish author of four novels, most recently South of the Border, for which he was shortlisted for the 2008 Kerry Group Literary prize. He is lecturer in the School of English, Drama and Film in University College Dublin, directing the postgraduate programme in creative writing. Timothy Taylor is an award winning Canadian novelist and journalist. His novels Stanley Park (2001) and Story House (2006) were national bestsellers and he has received nominations for numerous literary prizes. He is a contributing editor at en Route Magazine and Vancouver Magazine and a columnist for the Globe and Mail. -ENDS- *************************************************************************************** 2nd April 2009 2009 Shortlist Announced The shortlist of the 2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award was formally announced by The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Eibhlin Byrne on April 2nd, 2009 at 10.00am in The Mansion House The shortlist was selected from a total of 146 novels nominated by 157 public library systems in 117 cities worldwide. The Award is worth €100,000 and is the world’s most valuable literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English. The shortlisted titles are: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (Dominican / American) Riverhead Books American authors feature strongly with four of the eight short listed titles. Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People confirm the already established recognition of literature from the East demonstrated by the award in previous years.
The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is managed by Dublin City Libraries, on behalf of Dublin City Council. It is sponsored by IMPAC, an international management productivity company with its European headquarters in Dublin. The Award is presented annually with the objective of promoting excellence in world literature. 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 in the specified time period as outlined in the rules and conditions for the year. Nominations are submitted by library systems in major cities throughout the world. Recent previous winners of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award include: The judges are: Gabrielle Alioth was born 1955 in Basel, Switzerland, and having studied economics (M.A.) and the history of art, worked in econometric forecasting before emigrating to Ireland in 1984. Her first novel Der Narr (The Fool) was published in 1990. It received the Hamburg literary award for best first novel. Her seventh and most recent novel The Bride from Byzantium appeared in 2008. She also writes children’s and travel books. Gabrielle does extensive reading tours in Europe, India, Canada and the United States. Since 2004 she has been a lecturer at the Lucerne School of Art and Design. She lives in Julianstown, County Meath. Rachel Billington worked in television in London and New York before taking up full-time writing. Her first novel All Things Nice is set in New York. She has written nineteen adult novels, four children’s’ novels, five religious books for children and three non-fiction books. Her latest novel, Lies & Loyalties was published in 2008. She has also written and continues to write journalism for newspapers both in the UK and the US, including a three-year stint as a columnist for The Sunday Telegraph. Vesna Goldsworthy , born in 1961 in Belgrade, was an acclaimed poet and radio presenter when she left Yugoslavia for England in 1986. Since then, she has worked in UK publishing, for the BBC World Service, and as a university teacher. She is currently Reader in English and Creative Writing at Kingston University. She reviews for publications in Europe and North America, and has edited Writing Worlds 1: The Norwich Exchanges (2006), a book of conversations with international writers. Her first book, Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination (Yale, 1998) is on the reading lists of some sixty universities worldwide. Her second, a memoir entitled Chernobyl Strawberries, was published by Atlantic in March 2005 to broad critical acclaim. James Ryan is a native of Rathdowney, Co Laois and a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. His postgraduate studies focused primarily on creative development. His first novel, Home from England, was published by Phoenix House, London in 1995. Dismantling Mr Doyle followed in 1997 and his third novel, Seeds of Doubt, was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 2001. South of the Border, his most recent novel was short-listed fro the 2008 Kerry Group Literary prize. He is a lecturer in the School of English, Drama and Film in UCD, currently directing the postgraduate programme in creative writing. Timothy Taylor is an award winning Canadian novelist and journalist. His novels - Stanley Park (2001) and Story House (2006) - were national bestsellers and he has received nominations for numerous literary prizes including the Giller Prize, the Writers Trust Fiction Prize, and both the Vancouver and British Columbia Book Awards. His short story collection Silent Cruise (2002) earned him the Journey Prize and second place in the Danuta Gleed Award, given to the best collection of stories published in Canada in a given year. Taylor is also the winner of three National Magazine Awards. He lives in Vancouver where he splits his time between writing fiction, writing for screen and journalism. He's a contributing editor at enRoute Magazine and Vancouver Magazine, and a columnist for the Globe and Mail.
Hon. Eugene R. Sullivan, non-voting chair of the judging panel, is a former Chief Judge of a US Court of Appeals and brings a wealth of experience from sixteen years on the bench. His first novel, The Majority Rules, was published in 2005. His second novel of his political thriller trilogy, The Report to the Judicicary, was published in 2008. Judge Sullivan is currently a senior partner in Freeh Group Intenational, a global consultant group of former judges based in Washington DC: Wilmington, Delaware; London and Rome. .. For further information: Dublin City Council Press Office 086 8150010 ENDS ________________________________________________________________ Monday 10th November 2008: IRISH AUTHORS NOMINATED FOR THE 2009 LONGLISTNovels by two Irish writers; Anne Enright winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize and Joseph O'Connor have been nominated for the prestigious 2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Eibhlin Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin, announced today that 146 writers have been nominated for the 100,000 euro Award. It is the world's most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English and is a Dublin City Council initiative, in partnership with IMPAC. The nominations come from 157 libraries in 117 cities and 41 countries worldwide and can be viewed on www.impacdublinaward.ie. Dublin City Council will announce the shortlist on 2nd April 2009 and the winning novel will be revealed by the Lord Mayor on 11th June 2009. Other books among the 146 novels nominated include The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize, The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill, winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers Prize and Omega Minor by Paul Verhaeghen, winner of the 2008 Independent Foreign Fiction Award. The nominated Irish titles are: Redemption Falls by Joseph O’Connor, nominated by libraries in Cork and Limerick. “The 146 authors hail from 41 countries. The books span 18 languages, 30 of which are translated from languages such as Arabic, Japanese, Russian, Slovenian and Hebrew. 19 of them are first novels. These are books that might not otherwise come to the attention of Irish readers”, says Deirdre Ellis-King, Dublin City Librarian. “The spread of languages and the number of books in translation continues to grow”. Translated authors include Peter Høeg, Jan Echenoz, Lars Saabye Christensen, Laura Restrepo and Haruki Murakami. There are five members of the international panel of judges chaired by Hon. Eugene R. Sullivan:
James Ryan is a native of Rathdowney, Co Laois and a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. His postgraduate studies focused primarily on creative development. His first novel, Home from England, was published by Phoenix House, London in 1995. Dismantling Mr Doyle followed in 1997 and his third novel, Seeds of Doubt, was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 2001. South of the Border, his most recent novel was short-listed fro the 2008 Kerry Group Literary prize. He is a lecturer in the School of English, Drama and Film in UCD, currently directing the postgraduate programme in creative writing. Timothy Taylor is an award winning Canadian novelist and journalist. His novels - Stanley Park (2001) and Story House (2006) - were national bestsellers and he has received nominations for numerous literary prizes including the Giller Prize, the Writers Trust Fiction Prize, and both the Vancouver and British Columbia Book Awards. His short story collection Silent Cruise (2002) earned him the Journey Prize and second place in the Danuta Gleed Award, given to the best collection of stories published in Canada in a given year. Taylor is also the winner of three National Magazine Awards. He lives in Vancouver where he splits his time between fiction, writing for screen and journalism. He's a contributing editor at enRoute Magazine and Vancouver Magazine, and a columnist for the Globe and Mail. Hon. Eugene R. Sullivan, non-voting chair of the judging panel, is a former Chief Judge of a US Court of Appeals and brings a wealth of experience from sixteen years on the bench. His first novel, The Majority Rules, was published in 2005. His second novel of his political thriller trilogy, The Report to the Judicicary, was published in 2008. Judge Sullivan is currently a senior partner in Freeh Group Intenational, a global consultant group of former judges based in Washington DC: Wilmington, Delaware; London and Rome. Previous winners of the prestigious award include: ENDS For further information: Press Office, Dublin City Council, 00353 1 222 2106 ________________________________________________________
Copyright Milosz Rowicki De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage has scooped the world’s richest literary prize by being awarded the 13th annual International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award today, announced by the Lord Mayor, Cllr Paddy Bourke, Patron of the Award. Hage, who was born in Beirut, lived through nine years of civil war in the city before emigrating to Canada. His debut novel beat off competition from 137 titles, nominated by 162 public libraries from 45 countries. Acceptance Speech Dublin 12th June 2008 De Niro’s Game is told through the eyes of Bassam, as he grows up with his childhood friend George, in war-ravaged Beirut. As the young men reach adulthood they must choose their futures: to stay in the city and embrace a life of crime or go into exile abroad, alienated from the only existence they have known. On hearing about his win Rawi Hage said "I am a fortunate man. After a long journey of war, displacement and separation, I feel that I am one of the few wanderers who is privileged enough to have been rewarded, and for that I am very grateful. My gratitude extends to many people, but let me start with special thanks to the people of Ireland for their legendary hospitality and love of literature and words; to the organizers of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the award’s sponsors; and to the city of Dublin and its Lord Mayor. As well, to all those women and men of letters, and all artists who have chosen to represent multiple and diverse voices and people in their work, and to all those men and women who have chosen the painful and costly portrayal of truth over tribal self-righteousness, I am grateful. We should all be grateful." The IMPAC DUBLIN panel, which this year included Irish academic and writer Eibhlín Evans, said: “Rawi Hage's De Niro's Game is an eloquent, forthright and at times beautifully written first novel. Ringing with insight and authenticity the novel shows how war can envelope lives. It's a game where there are no winners, just degrees of survival. It's a wonderful debut and a deserving winner.” The IMPAC DUBLIN award is unique for being the largest literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English, as well as for being nominated by public libraries from around the globe. De Niro's Game was nominated by Winnipeg Public Library, in Rawi Hage’s adopted home of Canada. Cllr Paddy Bourke, Lord Mayor of Dublin said the strength of the IMPAC DUBLIN award lies in the nominations coming from libraries all over the world. “This year, as has been the case so many times in the past”, he said, “readers from every corner of the world have uncovered wonderful novels that otherwise may never have grasped public attention. IMPAC, Dublin City Council and Dublin City Libraries are extremely proud that the event has grown into one of the highlights not only of the Irish, but also the international, literary calendar.” Also shortlisted were; Winterwood by Patrick McCabe; The Attack by Yasmina Khadra; Let it be Morning by Sayed Kashua; The Woman Who Waited by Andrei Makine; The Sweet & Simple Kind by Yasmine Gooneratne; Dreams of Speaking by Gail Jones and The Speed of Light by Javier Cercas. The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is managed by Dublin City Libraries, on behalf of Dublin City Council. It is sponsored by IMPAC, an international management productivity company with its European headquarters in Dublin. The Award is presented annually with the objective of promoting excellence in world literature. 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 in the specified time period as outlined in the rules and conditions for the year. Nominations are submitted by library systems in major cities throughout the world. All the novels nominated can be viewed on www.impacdublinaward.ie. Previous winners of the prestigious award include: This year there were five members of the international panel of judges chaired by Hon. Eugene R. Sullivan;
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2nd April 2008: PATRICK McCABE’S WINTERWOOD IS ONE OF EIGHT NOVELS SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2008 INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
Eight novels, including Winterwood by Irish author Patrick McCabe, have made the shortlist for the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The Speed of Light – Javier Cercas (Spanish) in translation. Bloomsbury ‘‘To see Patrick McCabe’s name on the shortlist is a tribute to him and says a lot for the high standard of contemporary Irish literature. Ireland has a reputation for producing some of the world’s richest fiction and this tradition continues to be upheld with the recognition of one of our finest writers today’’, says Cllr Paddy Bourke, Lord Mayor of Dublin. Winterwood was nominated by both Cork and Dublin City Libraries. Dublin City Public Libraries also nominated a second shortlisted title, The Attack by Yasmina Khadra.
A judging panel of five, chaired by non-voting former Chief Judge of a US Court of Appeals, Hon. Eugene R. Sullivan, will select one winner from the eight novels shortlisted. (The winner will be announced by The Lord Mayor, Cllr. Paddy Bourke, Patron of the Award, in City Hall on 12th June 2008. -2- The Award is presented annually with the objective of promoting excellence in world literature. 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 in the specified time period as outlined in the rules and conditions for the year. Nominations are submitted by library systems in major cities throughout the world. All the novels nominated can be viewed on www.impacdublinaward.ie. Recent previous winners of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award include:
Attached: Profiles of International Judges ENDS For further information: Dublin City Council Press Office 086 8150010 or Mary Murphy 087 233 6415 -3-
Patricia Duncker: From Jamaica, but has lived most of her life in Aamer Hussein: Born in 1955 in Karachi, Pakistan. He has lived in London since the 1970s. He is the author of five collections of stories, most recently Turquoise (2002), This Other Salt (2005) and Insomnia (2007). He is also Director of the MA in National and International Literatures in English at the Institute of English Studies (University of London). Eibhlín Evans: Grew up in Dublin and moved to England where she gained a PhD in English and Philosophy. She returned to Dublin in 2004 and became a member of the School of English and Drama at University College Dublin where she has been involved in the recently established M.A. Degree in Creative Writing. Eibhlín has published academic articles, essays and reviews and has edited a collection of essays on Irish writing. José Luis de Juan: Born in Palma, Majorca in1956 and graduated in Law and International Relations from the universities of Barcelona and John Hopkins. He worked as a lawyer and civil servant in different organisations and began to publish his literary work in the 1990s: six novels, short stories and two non-fiction books, as well as poetry. He has received literary awards in Spain and France and his works has been translated into English, French and Italian. ….. For further information: Mary Murphy 087 233 6415 _____________________________________________________________ Monday 5th November 2007: Six Irish Authors nominated for the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Six Irish writers have been nominated for the prestigious 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. (The list of libraries that nominated them is attached.) They are in good company; other books among the 137 novels nominated include The Road by Cormac McCarthy, winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize and Mr Pip by Lloyd Jones which won the 2007 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
‘‘Dublin City Council and Dublin Public Libraries are proud to be so closely involved with the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in this, its thirteenth year. I hope readers will go down to their local library, check out the list of nominated books and take out one they fancy and read it,’’ says the Lord Mayor, Cllr. Paddy Bourke. ‘‘What sets this award apart from other awards is that the books are nominated through a truly democratic process, that is, through the public library systems of cities worldwide. Anyone can get a library card and access this truly exceptional list of world literature. I encourage anybody who does not have a Library Card to apply for one immediately and prepare to enjoy wonderful reading in the months ahead’’ he continues.
The Irish titles were nominated by:
_____________________________________________________________ Thursday, 14th May 2007: 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Winner Announced! LORD MAYOR CLLR. VINCENT JACKSON ANNOUNCES WINNER OF INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
Out Stealing Horses by Norwegian author Per Petterson is the winner of the 12th International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards announced by the Lord Mayor of Dublin Cllr Vincent Jackson today. Out Stealing Horses was the only translated work on the shortlist this year. It was translated from the original Norwegian into English by Anne Born, who will receive €25, 000 of the €100,000 prize. Born has translated novels of previous IMPAC Dublin nominees including Jens Christian Grondahl’s An Altered Light (2006) and Michael Larsen’s The Snake in Sydney (2002). The novel was published by Harvill Secker. The award is the world’s largest literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English. The winner was selected by a panel of five international judges and the presentation ceremony took place in Dublin’s City Hall. Petterson’s success follows that of Colm Toibin who last year was the first Irish writer to win the Award. Out Stealing Horses is a poignant and moving tale of a changing perspective on the world from youthful innocence to the difficult acceptance of betrayal, and of nostalgia for a simpler way of life. The story begins in 1948, when Trond is 15, he spends a summer in the country with his father. The events - the accidental death of a child, his best friend's feelings of guilt and eventual disappearance, his father's decision to leave the family for another woman - will change his life forever. An early morning adventure out stealing horses leaves Trond bruised and puzzled by his friend Jon's sudden breakdown. The tragedy which lies behind this scene becomes the catalyst for the two boys' families gradually to fall apart. As a 67-year-old man, and following the death of his wife, Trond has moved to an isolated part of Norway to live in solitude. But a chance encounter with a character from the fateful summer of 1948 brings the painful memories of that year flooding back, and will leave Trond even more convinced of his decision to end his days alone. The novel was nominated by Deichmanske Bibliotek, Oslo, Norway and Solvberget KF-Stavanger Bibliotek og Kulturhus, Norway. It was one of 138 novels nominated by 169 library systems in 49 countries, making the IMPAC Dublin Award truly international. ‘‘That’s the beauty of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. It draws our attention to good books and to authors that we might otherwise never have heard about,’’ said Lord Mayor Cllr. Vincent Jackson. The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the largest and most international prize of its kind. The Award is a partnership between IMPAC (Improved Management Productivity and Control) and Dublin City Council and is managed by Dublin City Libraries. Petterson was born in Norway in 1952 and has written five novels including To Siberia and In the Wake. His novel Out Stealing Horses also won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2006. The other shortlisted novels were:
Previous winners of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award are: 2006 The Master by Colm Tóibín ____________________________________________________________
Previous Award Recipient Orhan Pamuk wins Nobel Literature Prize
Pamuk,
one of the younger laureates, is well known and widely read. His profile is well
earned on the strength of some interesting novels, most notably My Name
is Red, his finest to date, and the work which won him the 2003 International
Impac Dublin Literary Award. ______________________________________________________________ 13th June 2006 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Winner Announced!
Tuesday 13th June 2006: Colm Tóibín is the first Irish writer to win the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. In this the 11th year of the Award, the Lord Mayor, Councillor Catherine Byrne announced that Tóibin’s novel The Master has won the €100,000 prize – the world’s richest literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English. The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is administered by Dublin City Public Libraries and sponsored by IMPAC (Improved Management Productivity and Control) an international company with its headquarters based in Florida, USA. The Master was chosen by an international panel of judges, having been nominated by 17 libraries worldwide.
The 10 shortlisted titles included three Irish authors and were selected from a 132 novels, nominated by 180 libraries from 43 countries and from 124 cities; 32 titles were in translation, covering 15 non-English languages. The
shortlisted titles:
The
judges for 2006 were: The Master was nominated by 17 Libraries; State Library of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Tweebronnen Openbare Bibliotheek, Leuven, Belgium, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Colombia, Cork City Libraries, Ireland, Dublin City Public Libraries, Ireland, Limerick City Library, Ireland, Dunedin Public Libraries, New Zealand, Edinburgh City Libraries & Information Services, Scotland, Cape Town Central Library, South Africa, Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton Country, Cincinnati, USA, Hartford Public Library, USA, Kansas City Public Library, USA, Minneapolis Public Library, USA, Free Library of Philadelphia, USA, San José Public Library, USA, Lincoln Library, Springfield, USA Previous winners
of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award are |
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Turkish
author Orhan Pamuk has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. 
Colm
Tóibín's The Master wins the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin
Literary Award
“It’s
an honour to present such a fine writer as Colm Tóibín, with the
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - the largest and most international
prize of its kind”, says Lord Mayor of Dublin, Cllr Catherine Byrne. “Libraries
from all corners of the globe nominate entries and the Award is open to books
written in any language. The Award is a Dublin City Council initiative and a partnership
between Dublin City Council and IMPAC, a productivity improvement company operating
in over 50 countries. The Award is administered by Dublin City Public Libraries”.
Judges’
comment: “In The Master, Colm Tóibín captures the exquisite
anguish of a man who circulated in the grand parlours and palazzos of Europe,
who was astonishingly alive and vibrant in his art, and yet whose attempts at
intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love. It is a powerful account
of the hazards of putting the life of the mind before affairs of the heart.