The IMPAC Literary Dublin Award Winner

Hello Gentle Reader

The IMPAC Literary Dublin Award, is the most lucrative literary prize, an author can receive for a single novel, with a paycheque of $100, 000. The prize also has to its name, internationally renowned writers on its alumni, two of which went on to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature; Herta Müller in nineteen-ninety six, and Orhan Pamuk in two-thousand and three.

This year’s winner is the Indian born, American writer Akhil Sharma for his novel “Family Life.” The judges for this year’s award praised Sharma’s novel for a combination of both the light and the dark. “Family Life,” itself took Sharma thirteen years to write, and traces a family’s odyssey from New Delhi to New York, where the older brother suffers an accident which leaves him brain damaged, and in need of twenty-four hour care. Akhil Sharma had stated that writing the novel was like: “a nightmare- like chewing stones, chewing gravel.” But thirteen years of labor had paid off for the writer, and former investment banker. It has since gone on to win the Folio Prize and now the IMPAC Literary Dublin Award.

Congratulations to Akhil Sharma for winning this year’s award!

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