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PREVIOUS NOMINATIONS
2004
Alice Sebold
The Lovely Bones
2004
William Trevor
The Story of Lucy Gault *
2004
William Kennedy
Roscoe
2003
Isabel Allende
Portrait in Sepia
2003
Dai Sijie
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
2000
J. California Cooper
The Wake of the Wind
2000
Alice McDermott
Charming Billy
1999
Niall Williams
Four Letters of Love
1999
Andreï Makine
Le Testament Français
1998
John Lanchester
The Debt to Pleasure
1997
Pat Barker
The Ghost Road
1997
Amy Tan
The Hundred Secret Senses
1997
Reynolds Price
The Promise of Rest
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