The shortlist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for 2013 is due to be announced on the 9th of April. The longlist for the prize was announced quite some time ago – on the 12th of November in fact – presumably in order to give readers some chance of making an indent into the rather extraordinary 154 book longlist before the second announcement is made.
The winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award will receive €100,000 prize, making it the world’s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English. In order to be eligible for the 2013 prize, books needed to be published between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2011.
The prize is organised by Dublin City Public Libraries and nominations are drawn from libraries in 120 cities around the world. The 2013 longlist features books from 44 countries, originally published in 19 different languages.
The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2013 Longlist
The Keeper of Lost Causes, Translated from Danish by Lisa Hartford, Jussi Adler-Olsen
What the Family Needed by Steven Amsterdam
Bountiful Famine by Sheg Aranmolate
Dirty Feet, Translated from French by Lazer Lederhendler, Edem Awumey
Tell It to the Trees by Anita Rau Badami
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
On Canaan’s Side by Sebastian Barry
The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya
Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch
Beggar’s Feast by Randy Boyagoda
When the Killing’s Done by T. C. Boyle
The Absolutist by John Boyne
The Cocaine Salesman, Translated from Dutch by Jonathan Reeder, Conny Braam
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine, Translated from German by Tim Mohr, Alina Bronsky
Estuary by Sam Bunny
The Dulang Washer by Paul Callan
The Potter’s Field, Translated from Italian by Stephen Sartarelli, Andrea Camilleri
Temporary Perfections, Translated from Italian by Antony Shugaar, Gianrico Carofiglio
Spirit of Progress by Steven Carroll
Awakened by P.C. + Kristin Cast
My Two Worlds, Translated from Spanish by Margaret B. Carson, Sergio Chejfec
Wulf by Hamish Clayton
The Grief of Others by Leah Hager Cohen
Red on Red by Edward Conlon
Julia, Translated from Dutch by Ina Rilke Otto de Kat
The Book of Doubt, Translated from Dutch by Brian Doyle Tessa de Loo
Underground Time, Translated from French by George Miller, Delphine de Vigan
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Time In Between, Translated from Spanish by Daniel Hahn, María Dueñas
Lightning, Translated from French by Linda Coverdale, Jean Echenoz
The Prague Cemetery, Translated from Italian by Richard Dixon, Umberto Eco
Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
A Cupboard Full of Coats by Yvvette Edwards
Against Art, Translated from Norwegian by James Anderson, Tomas Espedal
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Assumption by Percival Everett
Waiting for Robert Capa, Translated from Spanish by Adriana V. López Susana Fortes
All That I Am by Anna Funder
Kafka’s Friend, Translated from Croatian by Nina H. Kay-Antoljak, Miro Gavran
The Dinosaur Feather, Translated from Danish by Charlotte Barslund, Sissel-Jo Gazan
River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman
Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville
Ed King by David Guterson
Our Lady of Alice Bhatti by Mohammed Hanif
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Remember Ben Clayton by Stephen Harrigan
Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
Long Time, No See by Dermot Healy
Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson
Alice, Translated from German by Margot Bettauer Dembo, Judith Hermann
Cold Eye of Heaven by Christine Dwyer Hickey
The Thread by Victoria Hislop
The Dovekeepers Alice Hoffman
The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
The Map and the Territory, Translated from French by Gavin Bowd, Michel Houellebecq
The Reinvention of Love by Helen Humphreys
The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt
Child Wonder, Translated from Norwegian by Don Bartlett, and Don Shaw Roy Jacobsen
Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
The Lightning Field by Heather Jessup
Hell Is Empty by Craig Johnson
A World Elsewhere by Wayne Johnston
Five Bells by Gail Jones
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
Dagny or a Love Feast by Zurab Karumidze
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
The Hypnotist, Translated from Swedish by Ann Long, Lars Kepler
The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak
The Return Translated from French by David Homel Dany Laferrière
The Dewey Decimal System by Nathan Larson
Hut of Fallen Persimmons, Translated from Portuguese by Sarah Green, Adriana Lisboa
How It All Began by Penelope Lively
A Man of Parts by David Lodge
A Possible Madness by Frank Macdonald
The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai
The Larnachs by Owen Marshall
The Girl in the Blue Beret by Bobbie Ann Mason
Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar
Twice Born, Translated from Italian by Ann Gagliardi, Margaret Mazzantini
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal
Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears
Snowdrops by A.D. Miller
Pure by Andrew Miller
Autumn Laing by Alex Miller
A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In by Magnus Mills
The Mark, Translated from Macedonian by Milan Damjanovski, Blazhe Minevski
Cold Light by Frank Moorhouse
The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern
Rangatira by Paula Morris
Tyrant Memory, Translated from Spanish by Katherine Silver Horacio, Castellanos Moya
1Q84 Translated from Japanese by Jay Rubin and Phillip Gabriel Haruki Murakami
Accabadora, Translated from Italian by Silvester Mazzarella, Michela Murgia
The Town That Drowned by Riel Nason
Niko by Dimitri Nasrallah
The Second Coming by John Niven
Duke Rozlan by Mohd Noor
The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht
Emily, Alone by Stewart O’Nan
The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
Damned by Chuck Palahniuk
The Map of Time, Translated from Spanish by Nick Caistor, Félix J. Palma
Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Part of the Solution, Translated from German by Martin Chalmers, Ulrich Peltzer
The Invisible Ones by Stef Penney
The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips
Funeral for a Dog, Translated from German by Ross Benjamin, Thomas Pletzinger
The Conductor by Sarah Quigley
Half of the Human Race by Anthony Quinn
Splithead, Translated from German by Tess Lewis, Julya Rabinowich
Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul by David Adams Richards
Easy to Like by Edward Riche
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
The Goat Woman of Largo Bay by Gillian Royes
Doc by Mary Doria Russell
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Adam and Evelyn, Translated from German by John E. Woods, Ingo Schulze
The Emperor of Lies, Translated from Swedish by Sarah Death, Steve Sem-Sandberg
Dancing Lessons by Olive Senior
13, rue Thérèse by Elena Mauli Shapiro
Please Look After Mom, Translated from Korean by Chi-Young Kim, Kyung-sook Shin
Portrait of a Spy by Daniel Silva
The Iron Fence by Neluka Silva
From the Mouth of the Whale, Translated from Icelandic by Victoria Cribb, Sjón
The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am, Translated from Norwegian by Kerri A. Pierce, Kjersti A. Skomsvold
Everybody’s Right, Translated from Italian by Antony Shugaar, Paolo Sorrentino
Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift
Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique, Translated from Portuguese by Daniel Hahn, Gonçalo M. Tavares
We the Animals by Justin Torres
The Truth about Marie, Translated from French by Matthew B. Smith, Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
A Good Man by Guy Vanderhaeghe
Caribou Island by David Vann
The Submission by Amy Waldman
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
double talk by Patrick Warner
Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
Bed by David Whitehouse
Caesarion, Translated from Dutch by Sam Garrett, Tommy Wieringa
When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young
Touch by Alexi Zentner
The Warsaw Anagrams by Richard Zimler
The Five Wonders of the Danube, Translated from Serbian by Alice Copple-Tosic, Zoran Živković
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