2016 Winner

2016

Nominated by India International Centre Library

Judges

Carlo Gébler

Carlo Gébler

Carlo Gébler was born in Dublin in 1954.  He lives outside Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.        He is the author of several novels including A Good Day for A Dog and The Dead Eight (shortlisted for the Kerry Irish Fiction Prize), the short story collection W.9. & Other Lives, works of non-fiction including the narrative history, The Siege of Derry and the memoir The Projectionist, The Story of Ernest Gébler.  He has also written novels for children as well as plays for radio and the stage, including 10 Rounds, which was short-listed for the Ewart-Biggs Prize.  He is a member of Aosdana. Photo Credit: Bobbie Hanvey

Ian Sansom

Ian Sansom

Ian Sansom is a novelist, critic and academic. He is the author of 13 works of fiction and non-fiction, including The Truth About Babies, Ring Road and the Mobile Library series of novels. His most recent book is Death in Devon (HarperCollins, 2015), book no.3 in his 44-book County Guides series of novels. He writes for The Guardian, The London Review of Books, The New Statesman and The Spectator. He is currently a Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.

Iglika Vassileva

Iglika Vassileva

Iglika Vassileva is the acclaimed translator of James Joyce’s Ulysses, of almost all novels by Virginia Woolf, the prose of Walt Whitman, Nabokov and many other distinguished writers. Her translations of Ulysses, The Waves and To the Lighthouse have been met with high acclaim by literary critics and reading public alike. The recipient of numerous prizes, Iglika Vassileva was awarded four times the Prize of the Union of Bulgarian Translators, twice the Prize of the Ministry of Culture, twice the “Hristo G. Danov” National Prize for Literary Translation and the Sofia City Prize for Achievements in the field of Literature. Currently Iglika Vassileva is teaching literary translation at Sofia University.

Juan Pablo Villalobos

Juan Pablo Villalobos

Juan Pablo Villalobos was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1973. He’s the author of Down the Rabbit Hole (shortlisted for The Guardian First Book Award), Quesadillas and I’ll Sell You a Dog (to be published in English in 2016). His novels have been translated into fifteen languages. He writes for several publications, including Granta, Letras Libres, Gatopardo and English Pen’s Blog, and translates Brazilian literature into Spanish. He lived in Barcelona for several years, then moved to Brazil, and is now back in Spain. He is married with two Mexican-Brazilian-Catalan children. Photo Credit: Renato Parada

Meaghan Delahunt

Meaghan Delahunt

Meaghan Delahunt was born in Melbourne and lives in Edinburgh. She is the author of novels In the Blue House, The Red Book and To the Island. Her latest book is Greta Garbo’s Feet & Other Stories (2015). Awards for her work include the Flamingo/HQ Australian Short Story Prize (1997), a regional Commonwealth Prize, a Saltire Book Award and a nomination for the Orange Prize. She teaches Creative Writing part-time at the University of Stirling and is an Arts & Culture editor for www.bellacaledonia.com

SHORTLIST LIBRARIES

Brazil
The Maria da Conceição Moreira Salles Demonstration Library, also known as BDB, a reference to its previous name, is a federal public library created in..
Germany
The Academic City Library, Rheinallee 3B, and the Public Library – Anna Seghers – with its headquarters in the Bonifaziuszentrum as well as five district..
Switzerland
The BMs are a service of the Department of Culture and Sport of the City of Geneva and operate as a network. This network makes..
India
The Library of the India International Centre established in 1962 is the magnet that draws writers, readers, researchers to its quality collection and beautiful ambience…
Jamaica
The Jamaica Library Service was established in 1948 and provides, under the Ministry of Education and Youth, a Library Service free to the public and..
England
Vision Redbridge Culture and Leisure is a registered charity and as a non-profit organisation any surplus we make will be reinvested for community benefit, to..
Ireland
Waterford Libraries has 12 public branches spread throughout Waterford City and County, with a centrally located headquarters on the outskirts of Waterford City. Our libraries..

LONGLIST LIBRARIES

Aarhus BibliotekerneAleph – Stavanger BibliotekAll-Russia State Library for Foreign LiteratureAuckland LibrariesBelgrade City LibraryBergen Offentlige BibliotekBiblioteca Daniel Cosío VillegasBiblioteca Demonstrativa Maria da Conceição Moreira SallesBiblioteca Municipal de Oeiras / Municipal Libraries OeirasBiblioteca Nazionale Centrale di RomaBiblioteca Nazionale di Napoli “Vittorio Emanuele III”Biblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto / Porto Municipal LibrariesBibliotheek Den Haag (Libraries of The Hague)Bibliotheken der Stadt MainzBibliothèque Municipale de MulhouseBibliothèques Municipale de NiceBibliothèques Municipales GenèveBüchereien Wien – ViennaCalgary Public LibraryCape Breton Regional LibraryChicago Public LibraryChristchurch City LibrariesColombo Public LibraryCork City LibrariesEdinburgh City LibrariesEdmonton Public LibraryFree Library of PhiladelphiaHartford Public LibraryHelsinki City LibraryHouston Public LibraryIndia International Centre LibraryJamaica Library ServiceKatona József Library of Bács-Kiskun CountyLeipziger Städtische BibliothekenLincoln LibraryLiverpool City LibrariesLos Angeles Public LibraryMilwaukee Public LibraryMultnomah County LibraryMuntpunt – Hoofdstedelijke Openbare BibliotheekNational Library of LiechtensteinNew York Public LibraryOklahoma Department of LibrariesOttawa Public LibraryPikes Peak Library DistrictRedbridge LibrariesRegionální knihovna Karviná (Regional Library of Karviná)Richland LibrarySaint John Free Public LibrarySan José Public LibrarySeattle Public LibraryStadt Bibliothek SalzburgStadtbibliothek BremenStadtbüchereien DüsseldorfState Library of QueenslandState Library of South AustraliaStockholm Public LibraryTampere City LibraryThe Capital Library of ChinaThe National Library of AustraliaThe National Library of MalaysiaThe State Library of VictoriaThe State Library of Western AustraliaTimaru District LibrariesToronto Public LibraryUniversitäts-und Landesbibliothek BonnWaterford City and County LibrariesWellington City LibrariesWojewódzka Biblioteka Publiczna im. Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego w Łodzi (Jozef Pilsudski Regional and Municipal Public Library in Lodz)Zentralbibliothek Zürich

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