51 AMERICAN NOVELS NOMINATED FOR 2014 INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD, 152 TITLES NOMINATED BY LIBRARIES WORLD WIDE
Fifty-one American novels are among 152 titles that have been 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 2014 Award was launched today, by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Oisín Quinn, Patron of the Award, at a ceremony in The Dublin City Library & Archive.
The US titles include:
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson (winner Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2013)
The Round House by Louise Erdrich (winner 2012 National Book Award)
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
Billy Lynn’s Long Half Time Walk by Ben Johnston (debut novel)
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (debut novel)
Also nominated were debut novels Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt and The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey.
2014 longlisted novels by American authors
| LONGLISTED TITLE | AUTHOR |
| No One Is Here Except All Of Us | Ramona Ausubel |
| In the Kingdom of Men | Kim Barnes |
| Running the Rift | Naomi Benaron |
| Miss Fuller | April Bernard |
| The Sandcastle Girls | Chris Bohjalian |
| Tell the Wolves I’m Home | Carol Rifka Brunt |
| A Land More Kind Than Home | Wiley Cash |
| Telegraph Avenue | Michael Chabon |
| The Orchardist | Amanda Coplin |
| A Partial History of Lost Causes | Jennifer duBois |
| A Hologram for the King | Dave Eggers |
| The Round House | Louise Erdrich |
| Sufficient Grace | Amy Espeseth |
| The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving | Jonathan Evison |
| Absolution | Patrick Flanery |
| Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn |
| Canada | Richard Ford |
| Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk | Ben Fountain |
| Follow the Spinning Sun | Leandro Thomas Gonzales |
| The Fault in Our Stars | John Green |
| Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend | Matthew Green |
| Arcadia | Lauren Groff |
| The Dog Stars | Peter Heller |
| May We Be Forgiven | A.M. Homes |
| In One Person | John Irving |
| The Snow Child | Eowyn Ivey |
| The Orphan Master’s Son | Adam Johnson |
| The Vanishers | Heidi Julavits |
| No One Is Here Except All Of Us | Ramona Ausubel |
| In the Kingdom of Men | Kim Barnes |
| Running the Rift | Naomi Benaron |
| Miss Fuller | April Bernard |
| The Sandcastle Girls | Chris Bohjalian |
| Tell the Wolves I’m Home | Carol Rifka Brunt |
| A Land More Kind Than Home | Wiley Cash |
| Telegraph Avenue | Michael Chabon |
| The Orchardist | Amanda Coplin |
| A Partial History of Lost Causes | Jennifer duBois |
| A Hologram for the King | Dave Eggers |
| The Round House | Louise Erdrich |
| Sufficient Grace | Amy Espeseth |
| The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving | Jonathan Evison |
| Absolution | Patrick Flanery |
| Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn |
| Canada | Richard Ford |
| Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk | Ben Fountain |
| Follow the Spinning Sun | Leandro Thomas Gonzales |
| The Fault in Our Stars | John Green |
| Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend | Matthew Green |
| Arcadia | Lauren Groff |
| The Dog Stars | Peter Heller |
| May We Be Forgiven | A.M. Homes |
| In One Person | John Irving |
| The Snow Child | Eowyn Ivey |
| The Orphan Master’s Son | Adam Johnson |
| The Vanishers | Heidi Julavits |
American Libraries Participating 2014
| Boston | Boston Public Library |
| Cheyenne | Laramie County Library System |
| Chicago | Chicago Public Library |
| Cincinnati | Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County |
| Cleveland | Cleveland Public Library |
| Colorado Springs | Pikes Peak Library District |
| Columbia | Richland County Public Library |
| Concord | New Hampshire State Library |
| Denver | Denver Public Library |
| Detroit | Detroit Public Library |
| Hartford | Hartford Public Library |
| Houston | Houston Public Library |
| Jacksonville | Jacksonville Public Library |
| Kansas City | Kansas City Public Library |
| Miami | Miami-Dade Public Library System |
| Milwaukee | Milwaukee Public Library |
| New York | New York Public Library |
| Philadelphia | Free Library of Philadelphia |
| Pittsburgh | Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh |
| Portland | Multnomah County Library |
| Richmond | Richmond Public Library |
| San Diego | San Diego Public Library |
| San Francisco | San Francisco Public Library |
| San José | San Jose Public Library |
| Seattle | Seattle Public Library |
| Springfield | Lincoln Library |
Margaret Hayes, Dublin City Librarian, announced that the 152 books eligible for the 2014 award were nominated by libraries in 110 cities and 39 countries worldwide: ‘41 are titles in translation’, she said, ‘spanning 17 languages, and 47 are first novels’. “We are delighted that the USA continues to feature so strongly in the Award each year, she said, “and I want to thank the 26 library systems from New York to San Francisco, who nominated books for the Award. Being nominated for the Award will bring these writers to the attention of an even larger international audience.”
Lord Mayor, Oisín Quinn, commended the IMPAC DUBLIN Award for its promotion of excellence in world literature as well as for the opportunity to promote Irish writing internationally. ‘Dublin is a UNESCO City of Literature and cultural tourism is a vital part of the City’s economy’ he said: ‘this prestigious Award enhances the City’s worldwide reputation as a literary destination’.
‘Readers at home and abroad’, said the Lord Mayor, ‘will find new books and new authors on the longlist, and they can pit themselves against the international panel of judges and pick their own favourite, before I announce the winner on 12thJune next year’.
Books eligible for the 2014 award were first published in 2012.
The 2014 Judging Panel comprises Irish author, Catherine Dunne (shortlisted for Irish Book Awards – 2013 Eason Novel of the Year); Malaysian novelist Tash Aw (longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize); Giles Foden, British novelist and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia; Maya Jaggi, award winning cultural journalist and critic for Guardian Review and Maciek Swierkocki, Polish translator, critic, scriptwriter, novelist and editor. The non-voting Chairperson is Eugene R. Sullivan.
Other novels nominated for the 2014 Award include Canada by Richard Ford, The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson , winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and The Round House by Louise Erdrich, winner of the 2012 National Book Award.
Among the 41 translated authors are Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian-Spanish writer, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature); Karl Ove Knausgård (Norway), Herman Koch (The Netherlands) and Ragna Sigurðardóttir (Iceland).
Two previous winners of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2010 winner Gerbrand Bakker and 1998 winner Herta Müller, have also been nominated. Herta Müller was also the recipient of the 2009 Nobel prize.
The most nominated books this year are Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel and Canada by Richard Ford, both of which received nine nominations from libraries in Canada, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Switzerland, Britain and America. Other books nominated by multiple libraries are The Dinner by Herman Koch, The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson, The Round House by Louise Erdrich and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce.
The shortlist will be made public on 9th April 2014
The Lord Mayor will announce the winner on 6th June 2014
The International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award is presented annually for a novel written in English or translated into English. Founded in partnership with IMPAC, the Award is an initiative of Dublin City Council, the municipal government of Dublin. The Award aims to promote excellence in world literature and nominations are submitted by library systems in major cities throughout the world. Designated a UNESCO City of Literature in 2010, Dublin’s literary heritage is a significant driver of cultural tourism for the City.