International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award

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1998 List of Eligible Nominated Titles	A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
The ISBN, which appears in ( ) after the title, is that of the nominated edition.

A Hector Abad, The Joy of Being Awake (1571290206)
Nominated by: Bogota

Sherman Alexie, Indian Killer (087113652X)
Nominated by: Denver, San Antonio

Margaret Atwood,                  Alias Grace (077100835X) SHORT-LISTED
                                                Nominated by: Adelaide, Chicago, Durban, Hobart, Kansas,
                                                London, Mainz, Miami, New York, Oslo, Portland, Richmond,
                                                Toronto, Washington D.C., Wellington

Bernardo Atxaga, The Lone Man (1806461352)
Nominated by: Helsinki

Solvej Balle, According to the Law (1860461298)
Nominated by: Copenhagen

Martyn Bedford, Acts of Revision (0385482736)
Nominated by: Hannover

Louis Begley, About Schmidt (0679450335)
Nominated by: Frankfurt, Houston

Andre Brink, Imaginings of Sand (043620259) SHORT-LISTED
Nominated by: Pretoria

Anita Brookner, Altered States (0679449736)
Nominated by: Tulsa City

James Buchan, High Latitudes (0374169993)
Nominated by: Washington D.C.

Michael Cannon, A Conspiracy of Hope (1852425172)
Nominated by: Suva

Bo Carpelan,                           Urwind (1857542509)
                                                Nominated by: Helsinki, Reykjavik

Paulo Coelho,                          By the River Piedra I sat down and wept (0062513982)
                                                Nominated by: Lisbon

Fred D'Aguiar, Dear Future (0701165375)
Nominated by: Georgetown

David Dabydeen, The Counting House (0224043439) SHORT-LISTED
Nominated by: Georgetown

Ita Daly, Unholy Ghosts (0747524483)
Nominated by: Belfast

Margriet de Moor,                  The Virtuoso (0330341154)
                                                Nominated by: Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Rotterdam,
                                                The Hague, Utrecht

Seamus Deane,                       Reading in the Dark (0224044052)
                                                Nominated by: Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Cardiff, Dublin,
                                                Ghent, Leuven, Minneapolis

Roddy Doyle,                          The Woman who walked into Doors (0224042726)
                                                Nominated by: Antwerp, Birmingham, Bruges, Brussels,
                                                Chicago, Durban, Ghent, Hobart, Leuven, Mariehamn, Oslo

Robert Drewe, The Drowner (0732908582)
Nominated by: Adelaide

Patricia Duncker, Hallucinating Foucoult (1852425105)
Nominated by: Leeds

Laura Esquivel, Law of Love (0517706814)
Nominated by: Lincoln

Margaret Forster, Shadow Baby (0701165642)
Nominated by: Johannesburg, London

David Foster, The Glade within the Grove (0091832136) SHORT-LISTED
Nominated by: Brisbane, Hobart, Sydney

Connie May Fowler, Before Women had Wings (0399141294)
Nominated by: Tallahassee

Carlos Fuentes, Diana, the Goddess who hunts alone (0374139032)
Nominated by: Mexico City

Clifford Fyle, Blood Brothers (9966498400)
Nominated by: Nairobi

Alan Garner, Strandloper (1860461603)
Nominated by: Birmingham

Monica Genya, Links of a Chain (9966469567)
Nominated by: Nairobi

Diane Glancy, Pushing the Bear (0151002258)
Nominated by: Springfield

Juan Goytisolo, The Marx family Saga (0571175775)
Nominated by: Madrid

Olafur Gunnarsson, Trolls' Cathedral (1899197303)
Nominated by: Helsinki, Reykjavik

Georgina Hammick, The Arizona Game (0701162147)
Nominated by: Johannesburg

Erik Fosnes Hansen, Psalm at Journey's End (0374238685)
Nominated by: Wellington

Ron Hansen, Atticus (0060182172)
Nominated by: Denver, Kansas, Tucson

Wilson Harris, Jonestown (0571177735)
Nominated by: Georgetown

Tony Hillerman, The Fallen Man (006017773X)
Nominated by: Tucson

Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster (1860491235)
Nominated by: Cape Town, Poitiers

Siri Hustvedt, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (0805049207)
Nominated by: Oslo

Deborah Iida, Middle Son (1565121198)
Nominated by: Lincoln

Ben Jelloun, The State of Absence (0704370832)
Nominated by: Lyon

Jamaica Kincaid, Autobiography of my Mother (0374107319)

SHORT-LISTED
Nominated by: Houston

Milan Kundera, Slowness (0571178170)
Nominated by: Leipzig, Lyon

John Lanchester, The Debt to Pleasure (0805043888)
Nominated by: Columbia, Topeka

Doris Lessing, Love, again (0002239361)
Nominated by: Copenhagen, Veria

Gordon Lish, Epigraph (1568580762)
Nominated by: Topeka

Penelope Lively, Heat Wave (067086904X)
Nominated by: Poitiers

Olga Lorenzo, The Rooms in my Mother's House (014026115X)
Nominated by: Adelaide

Earl Lovelace, Salt (0571178499) SHORT-LISTED
Nominated by: Kingston

Anne-Marie MacDonald, Fall on your Knees (0394281594)
Nominated by: Cardiff, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver

Nozipo J. Maraire, Zenzele: a letter for my daughter (0517702428)
Nominated by: Cape Town, San Antonio, Springfield, Topeka

Jill McCorkle, Carolina Moon (1565121368)
Nominated by: Kansas

Elizabeth McCracken, Giant's House (0385314337)
Nominated by: Denver, San Antonio, Tallahassee

Patrick McGrath, Asylum (0670870013)
Nominated by: Liverpool

Jane Mendelsohn, I was Amelia Earhart (0224044346)
Nominated by: Cape Town

Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces (0771058837)
Nominated by: Dublin, Frankfurt, Ottawa, Toronto

Steven Millhauser,                Martin Dressler: the tale of an American Dreamer
                                                (051770319X)
                                               Nominated by: Cleveland

Jacqueline Mitchard, Deep end of the Ocean (0670865796)
Nominated by: Tallahassee

Harry Mulisch,                     The Discovery of Heaven (0670856681)
                                              Nominated by: Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Hannover,
                                              Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, Warsaw

Herta Muller, The Land of Green Plums (0805042954) WINNER
Nominated by: Berne

Lawrence Norfolk, The Pope's Rhinorcerous (0749398744)

SHORT-LISTED
Nominated by:Liverpool

Edna O'Brien, Down by the River (0374143277)
Nominated by: Minneapolis

Joyce Carol Oates, We were the Mulvaneys (0525942238)
Nominated by: Mariehamn

Janet Peery, The River Beyond the World (0312147198)
Nominated by: Cleveland

Arturo Perez-Reverte, The Dumas Club (0860460704)
Nominated by: Barcelona

Marge Piercy, City of Darkness, City of Light (044991268X)
Nominated by: Copenhagen

Elena Poniatowska, Tinisima (0374277850)
Nominated by: Mexico

E. Annie Proulx, Accordion Crimes (0684195488)
Nominated by: Leipzig, London, Mainz, Washington D.C.

Francisco Rebolledo, Rasero: a novel (0807120049)
Nominated by: Mexico City

Jo-anne Richards, The Innocence of Roast Chicken (0747218153)
Nominated by: Pretoria

Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow (0679451501)
Nominated by: Houston

Sandra Scofield, A Chance to see Egypt (0060173432)
Nominated by: Lincoln

W.G. Sebald, The Emigrants (1860463495)
Nominated by: Hannover

Antonio Skarmeta, Love-fifteen (093548082X)
Nominated by: Valparaiso

Graham Swift, Last Orders (0330345591) SHORT-LISTED
Nominated by: Detroit, Frankfurt, Mariehamn, Miami

Meera Syal, Anita and Me (0002253402)
Nominated by: Liverpool

Colm Toibin, The Story of the Night (0330340174)
Nominated by: Dublin

Barry Unsworth, After Hannibal (0241133424)
Nominated by: Belfast

John Updike, In the Beauty of the Lilies (0241136539)
Nominated by: Chicago, Johannesburg

Adriaan Van Dis,                    My Father's War (156584033X)
                                               Nominated by: Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Rotterdam,
                                               The Hague, Utrecht

Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy (0771086938) SHORT-LISTED
Nominated by: Ottawa, Warsaw

Mario Vargas Llosa, Death in the Andes (0374140014)
Nominated by: Barcelona, Leipzig

Timothy Watts, Steal Away (1569470677)
Nominated by: Miami

Mark Winegardner, The Veracruz Blues (0670866369)
Nominated by: Tucson

Rafael Yglesius, Doctor Neruda's Cure for Evil (0446520055)
Nominated by: New York

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1998 List of Eligible Nominated Titles