While not as popular as the Man Booker and Pulitzer Prizes, the IMPAC Dublin has international coverage and the winning books are as diverse as a list can be.
The 2010 IMPAC goes to the Dutch novel The Twin. Gerbrand Bakker (writer) and David Colmer (translator) will share the prize of 100,000 Euro (approx. 123,782.55 USD), "the world's richest literary prize for a single novel."
2011 Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann
2010 The Twin Gerbrand Bakker, translated from the Dutch by David Colmer
2009 Man Gone Down Michael Thomas
2008 De Niro's Game Rawi Hage
2007 Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson, translated from Norwegian by Anne Born
2006 The Master Colm Tóibín
2005 The Known World Edward P. Jones
2004 This Blinding Absence of Light Tahar Ben Jelloun, translated from the French by Linda Coverdale
2003 My Name is Red Orhan Pamuk, translated from the Turkish by Erdag M. Göknar
2002 Atomised (also published as The Elementary Particles) Michel Houellebecq, translated from the French by Frank Wynne
2001 No Great Mischief Alistair MacLeod
2000 Wide Open Nicola Barker
1999 Ingenious Pain Andrew Miller
1998 The Land of Green Plums Herta Müller, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann
1997 A Heart So White Javier Marias, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
1996 Remembering Babylon David Malouf
Sources:
http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/index.htm
http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/awardarchive.htm
http://mhpbooks.com/mobylives/?p=16063
I don't recognize too many of these titles but I doubt that any named here packs as powerful a punch to the reader or is as disturbing in its portrayal of the crisis of the western psyche as Houllebeque's 'Atomised'. I'm open to amendment and contradiction though!
ReplyDeleteMe, too. I haven't read anything from here! Though I own two ('Out Stealing Horses' & 'A Heart So White') so I'll soon have an idea of the impact of an IMPAC. :) I haven't tried Houellebecq, so I think I'll go look for 'Atomised.'
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