IMPAC Prize Shortlist
The 2009 Shortlist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award was announced earlier today. And here are your eight finalists (is there any rhyme and/or reason to this figure? or the enormously long longlist?):
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
- Ravel by Jean Echenoz, translated from the original French by LInda Coverdale
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
- The Archivist’s Story by Travis Holland
- The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles by Roy Jacobsen, translated from the original Norwegian by Don Shaw and Don Bartlett
- The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
- Animal’s People by Indra Sinha
- Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
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