The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award honors English language titles of high literary merit.  Book nominations are submitted by libraries worldwide, and the award is administered by Dublin City Public Libraries in Ireland.

2004

Winner:

This Blinding Absence of Light, by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Shortlist:
The Book of Illusions, by Paul Auster
Any Human Heart, by Willam Boyd
Caramelo, by Sandra Cisneros
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
The White Family, by Maggie Gee
Balthasar's Odyssey, by Amin Maalouf
Family Matters, by Rohinton Mistry
Earth and Ashes, by Atiq Rahimi
House of Day, House of Night, by Olga Tokarczuk


2003

Winner:
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk (translated from the Turkish by Erdag M. Göknar)

Shortlist:
The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock
Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor
The Royal Physician's Visit (also published as The Visit of the Royal Physician) by Per Olov Enquist - translated from the Swedish by Tiina Nunnelly
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Painter of Birds by Lidia Jorge (also published as The Migrant Painter of Birds) - translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 


2002

Winner:
 The Elementary Particles (or Atomised) by Michel Houellebecq (translated from the French by Frank Wynne)

Shortlist:
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
The Keepers of Truth by Michael Collins
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
The Years with Laura Diaz by Carlos Fuentes
Madame by Antoni Libera


2001

Winner:
No Great Mischief by Alastair MacLeod

Shortlist:
The True History of Paradise by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
The Love You Promised Me by Silvia Molina (translated from the Spanish by David Unger)
Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan
The Clay Machine-Gun by Victor Pelevin (tranlslated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield)
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin


2000

Winner:
Wide Open by Nicola Barker

Shortlist:
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Trumpet by Jackie Kay
This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
Paradise by Toni Morrison
I Married a Communist by Philip Roth


1999

Winner:
Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller

Shortlist:
Quarantine by Jim Crace
Underworld by Don DeLillo
The Ordinary Seaman by Francisco Goldman
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin)
The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick
The Reader by Bernard Schlink (Translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway)


1998

Winner:
The Land of Green Plums by Herta Muller (translated from the German by Michael Hofmann)

Shortlist:
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Imaginings of Sand by Andre Brink
The Counting House by David Dabydeen
The Glade within the Grove by David Foster
Autobiography of my Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
Salt by Earl Lovelace
The Pope's Rhinoceros by Lawrence Norfolk
Last Orders by Graham Swift
The Englishman's Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe


1997

Winner:
A Heart So White by Javier Marias (translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa)

Shortlist:
Reservation Blues, by Sherman Alexie
A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry
Novel Without A Name, by Duong Thu Huong
Declares Pereira, by Antonio Tabucchi
A Tiler's Afternoon, by Lars Gustaffson
The Good Negress (also published as This Rain Coming), by A.J. Verdelle
Morvern Callar, by Alan Warner


1996

Winner:
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf

Shortlist:
Ghosts by John Banville
A Way In The World by V.S Naipaul
The Following Story by Cees Noteboom (Translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke)
The Laws by Connie Palmen (Translated from the Dutch by Richard Huijing)
The Gospel According To Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago (Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero)
Away by Jane Urquhart



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