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17/02/2010 -

Irish Writers on IMPAC Longlist 2010


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The nominated Irish titles are:

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry, nominated by libraries in Ireland, the UK, the Czech Republic, South Africa and the USA.
Netherland by Joseph O’Neill, nominated by libraries in Ireland, Austria, South Africa and the USA.

Two writers from the North of Ireland were also nominated,

The Truth Commissioner by David Park and,
Molly Fox’s Birthday by Deirdre Madden.


The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award has unveiled its massive 2010 longlist. This year there are 156 novels on the list, nominated by 163 libraries in 43 countries. The Shortlist will be announced on 14th April 2010 whilst the eventual Winner will be unveiled on 17th June 2010.


AUTHOR      TITLE
Nathalie Abi-Ezzi A Girl Made of Dust 
Aravind Adiga The White Tiger 
Peter Adolphsen Machine translated by Charlotte Barslund 
José Eduardo Agualusa My Father's Wives translated by Daniel Hahn
Alaa Al Aswany Chicago translated by Farouk Abdel Wahab
Rabih Alameddine The Hakawati / Storyteller 
Musharraf Ali Farooqi The Story of a Widow
Nadeem Aslam The Wasted Vigil 
Kate Atkinson When Will There Be Good News?
Stéphane Audeguy The Only Son translated by John Cullen
Paul Auster Man in the Dark
Gerbrand Bakker The Twin translated by David Colmer 
Chitra Banerjee The Palace of Illusions
Muriel Barbery The Elegance of the Hedgehog translated by Alison Anderson
Joan Barfoot Exit Lines 
Kim Barnes A Country Called Home 
Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture 
Louis Bayard The Black Tower
David Benioff City of Thieves
Charles Bock Beautiful Children
C.J. Box Blood Trail 
Joseph Boyden Through Black Spruce
Stefan Brijs The Angel Maker translated by Hester Velmans
Geraldine Brooks People of the Book 
Shannon Burke Black Flies
Ian Buruma The China Lover
Andrea Camilleri The Paper Moon translated by Stephen Sartarelli 
Ethan Canin America, America 
Martin Caparrós Valfierno: the man who stole the Mona Lisa translated by Jasper Reid
Peter Carey His Illegal Self 
Eleanor Catton  The Rehearsal 
Dai'na Chaviano The Island of Eternal Love translated by Andrea G. Labinger
Chris Cleave The Other Hand / Little Bee 
Maurice G. Dantec Cosmos Incorporated translated by Tina A. Kover
Andrew Davidson The Gargoyle 
Luke Davies God of Speed
Kate de Goldi  The 10pm Question 
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Palace of Illusions
Matthew Condon The Trout Opera
José Rodrigues dos Santos Codex 632: The Secret Identity of Christopher Columbus translated by Alison Entrekin 
Gyorgy Dragoman The White King translated by Paul Olchvary
Slavenka Drakulic Frida's Bed translated by Zoric Pribichevich 
Bernard du Boucheron The Voyage of the Short Serpent translated by Hester Velmans
Robert Edric  In Zodiac Light
Marian Endicott Good to a Fault 
Leif Enger So Brave, Young and Handsome 
Louise Erdrich The Plague of Doves 
Bernardine Evaristo Blonde Roots
Elena Ferrante The Lost Daughter translated by Ann Goldstein
Laura Fish Strange Music 
Richard Flanagan Wanting
Jeffrey Ford The Shadow Year 
Annica Foxcroft There are Ants in my Sugar
Steven Galloway The Cellist of Sarajevo 
Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza    Blackout translated by Benjamin Moser 
Helen Garner The Spare Room 
Amitav Ghosh Sea of Poppies
Shehani Gomes  Learning to Fly 
Andrew Sean Greer The Story of a Marriage
Arnon Grunberg The Jewish Messiah
Manu Gunasena The Prince 
Rawi Hage Cockroach
Kenneth J. Harvey Blackstrap Hawco: said to be about a Newfoundland family 
Milton Hatoum Ashes of the Amazon translated by John Gledson
Samuel Hazo This Part of the World
Christoph Hein Settlement translated by Philip Boehm 
Zoe Heller The Believers
Aleksander Hemon The Lazarus Project 
Philip Hensher The Northern Clemency 
Linda Hogan People of the Whale
Nicholas Hogg Show Me The Sky
Samantha Hunt The Invention of Everything Else 
Siri Hustvedt The Sorrows of an American 
Arnaldur Indridson Artic Chill translated by Victoria Cribb and Bernard Scudder
Rowley Jeffrey Gems in the Cracks
Ma Jian Beijing Coma 
Stephanie Johnson Swimmer's Rope 
Sadie Jones The Outcast 
Hillary Jordan Mudbound
Hedi Kaddour Waltenberg translated by David Coward
James Kelman Kieron Smith, Boy 
Karl Ove Knausgard A Time To Every Purpose Under Heaven translated by James Anderson
James Howard Kunstler World Made By Hand 
Hanif Kureishi Something To Tell You 
Rachel Kushner Telex from Cuba
Feri Lainscek Murisa translated by Erica Johnson Debelsak
Charles Lambert Little Monsters 
Patrick Lane Red Dog, Red Dog 
Mandla Langa The Lost Colours of the Chameleon 
Ursula LeGuin Lavinia
Dennis Lehane The Given Day
Lauren Liebenberg The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam 
Deirdre Madden Molly Fox's Birthday
Andrei Makine  Human Love translated by Geoffrey Strachan
Adam Mansback The End of the Jews 
Adam Mars-Jones Pilcrow
Richard Mason The Lighted Rooms
James Meek We Are Now Beginning Our Descent 
Kei Miller    The Same Earth 
Donna Milner After River 
Simon Sebag Montefiore Sashenka
Clare Morrall The Language of Others 
Toni Morrison A Mercy 
Kate Morton The Forgotten Garden 
Walter Mosley Diablerie
Jay Neugeboren  1940
Salvatore Niffoi The Legend of Redenta Tiria translated by Shaun Whiteside
H. R. Ole Kulet Blossoms of the Savannah 
Linda Olsson Sonata for Miriam 
Stewart O'Nan Songs for the Missing
Joseph O'Neill Netherland
David Park The Truth Commissioner 
Emily Perkins Novel About My Wife 
Tom Piazza City of Refuge
Richard Price Lush Life
Ross Raisin God's Own Country 
Ruana Rajepakse The Garland of Fate
Ron Rash Serena
Roxana Robinson Cost
Marilynne Robinson Home
Olivier Rolin Hotel Crystal translated by Jane Kuntz 
Evelio Rosere The Armies translated by Anne McLean 
Philip Roth Indignation
Anuradha Roy An Atlas of Impossible Longing 
Salman Rushdie The Enchantress of Florence 
Mary Doria Russell Dreamers of the Day 
José Saramago Death With Interuptions translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Ingo Schulze New Lives: The youth of Enrico Turmer in letter and prose translated by John E. Woods
Anne Simpson Falling
Jaspreet Singh    Chef
Curtis Sittenfeld American Wife
Paul Leslie Smith Rainforest Tears ; a Borneo Story 
Tom Rob Smith Child 44 
Sasa Stanisic How the Soldier Repairs the Gramaphone translated by Anthea Bell 
Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain
Fred Stenson The Great Karoo
Neal Stephenson Anathem 
Joan Thomas Reading by Lightning 
Hannah Tinti The Good Thief 
Steve Toltz A Fraction of the Whole
Illija Trojanov    The Collector of Worlds translated by William Hobson 
Christos Tsiolkas The Slap
Linn Ullmann A Blessed Child translated by Sarah Death 
Cecilia Urbina A Tuesday Like Today translated by Clare E. Sullivan
Simone van der Vlugt The Renunion translated by Michelle Hutchinson 
Fred Vargas This Night's Foul Work translated by Sian Reynolds 
Juan Gabriel Vasquez The Informers translated by Anne McLean
Tanguy Viel Beyond Suspicion translated by Linda Coverdale 
John Edgar Wideman Fanon
Tim Winton Breath 
Esther Woolfson Piano Angel 
David Wroblewski  The Story of Edgar Sawtelle 
Michael Winter The Architects are Here
Arnold Zable Sea of Many Returns 
Zoran Zivkovic Escher's Loops 

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