Twelve books by Canadian authors are among 154 titles on the longlist of books nominated by libraries worldwide for the €100,000 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English. Organised by Dublin City Public Libraries, the 2013 Award was launched on 12th November by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Cllr Naoise Ó Muirí, Patron of the Award, at a ceremony in The Dublin City Library & Archive.
The Canadian titles are:
- Beggar’s Feast by Randy Boyagoda
- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick de Witt
- Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
- The Reinvention of Love by Helen Humphreys
- The Lightning Field by Heather Jessup
- A World Elsewhere by Wayne Johnston
- A Possible Madness by Frank Macdonald
- The Town That Drowned by Riel Nason
- Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul by David Adams Richards
- Easy to Like by Edward Riche
- A Good Man by Guy Vanderhaeghe
- Touch by Alexi Zentner