International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the largest and most international prize of its kind. It involves libraries from all corners of the globe, and is open to books written in any language. The Award is a joint initiative of the Dublin, Ireland City Council, the Municipal Government of Dublin City, and the productivity improvement company IMPAC. The award is administered by Dublin City public libraries.

2004- Tahar Ben Jelloun This Blinding absence of light (translated from the French by Linda Coverdale)

Others Short Listed:

• Paul Auster The Book of Illusions
• William Boyd Any Human Heart
• Caramelo Sandra Cisneros
• Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
• The White Family Maggie Gee
• Balthasar's Odyssey Amin Maalouf (translated from the French by Barbara Bray)
• Family Matters Rohinton Mistry
• Earth and Ashes Atiq Rahimi (translated from the Dari by Erdag M. Göknar)
• House of Day, House of Night Olga Tokarczuk (translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)

2003 - Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red

Others Short Listed:

• Dennis Bock , The Ash Garden
• Achmat Dangor , Bitter Fruit
• Per Olov Enquist, The Royal Physician's Visit
• Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
• Lidia Jorge , The Migrant Painter of Birds
• John McGahern, That They May Face the Rising Sun
• Ann Patchett , Bel Canto

2002 - Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles (Atomized)

Others Short Listed:

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

2001 - Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief

Others Short Listed:

• Margaret Cezair-Thompson , The True History of Paradise
• Silvia Molina , The Love You Promised Me
• Andrew O'Hagan , Our Fathers
• Victor Pelevin, Buddha's Little Finger
• Colm Toibin, The Blackwater Lightship

2000 - Nicola Barker, Wide Open

Others Short Listed:

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

1999 - Andrew Miller, Ingenious Pain

Others Short Listed:

• Jim Crace, Quarantine
• Don DeLillo, Underworld
• Francisco Goldman , The Ordinary Seaman
• Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
• Haruki Murakami, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
• Cynthia Ozick, The Puttermesser Papers
• Bernard Schlink , The Reader

1998 - Herta Muller , The Grand of Green Plums

Others Short Listed:

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

1997 - Javier Marias , A Heart So White

Others Short Listed:

• Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues
• Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
• Duong Thu , Novel Without A Name
• Antonio Tabucchi, Declares Pereira
• Lars Gustafsson, A Tiller's Afternoon
• A.J. Verdelle , The Good Negress
• Alan Warner,Morvern Callar

1996 - David Malouf, Remembering Babylon

Others Short Listed:

• John Banville, Ghosts
• V.S Naipaul, A Way In The World
• Cees Noteboom , The Following Story
• Connie Palmen , The Laws
• Jose Saramago, The Gospel According To Jesus Christ
• Jane Urquhart, Away