Hello Gentle Reader
The IMPAC Literary Dublin Award has announced its Short List. Consisting of ten novels, by ten different authors from around the world, the list is both exciting and diverse in its exploration of literature from around the world, translated into English. The short list includes a Pulitzer Prize Shortlisted author; the French bad boy of letters; and Icelandic poet turned novelist and fiction writer, who has collaborated with Bjork; and the European Union Prize for Literature winner; also the most popular Japanese writer in recent history.
This is as follows:
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry (Irish)
The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq (French)
Pure by Andrew Miller (British)
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (Japanese)
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (Japanese American)
The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips (American)
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (American)
From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjón (Icelandic)
The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am by Kjersti Skomsvold (Norwegian)
Caesarion by Tommy Wieringa (Dutch)
Good luck to all the authors!
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