2011 IMPAC Award Longlist Includes 162 Titles from 43 Countries

In What's the Buzz by Edward Nawotka

By Edward Nawotka The longlist for the Dublin IMPAC Award has been announced . . . and it’s loooong: 162 titles have been nominated. They come from 126 cities and 43 countries worldwide. 42 are titles in translation, spanning 14 languages and 35 are first novels. Click here for the full roll call. (At the very least, it offers a snapshot of what readers across …

Bonus Material: USA’s Thomas Wins £100,000 Dublin IMPAC Prize

In Discussion by Edward Nawotka

DUBLIN: Michael Thomas’ 2007 novel Man Gone Down won this years £100,000 Dublin IMPAC Literary award, reputed to be the richest single prize offered for fiction in the world. The book is more than appropriate for these tyring times, as it tells the story of a down-on-his-luck man with just four days to raise enough money to keep his family …