Alert! Tan Twan Eng, Marie NDiaye and Patrick Flanery are among the ten authors shortlisted for the 2014 IMPAC Dublin Award – “the world’s most valuable annual literary award for a single work of fiction published in English”.
Cape Town-based Malaysian-born writer Tan Twan Eng has been shortlisted for his novel The Garden of Evening Mists, which previously won the 2013 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the Man Asian Literary Prize. Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye, who is of Senegalese parentage, and American author Patrick Flanery’s Absolution, which is set in South Africa, also made the list.
The judges had the difficult task of reducing the longlist of 152 books to the ten shortlisted ones revealed today. They will now have to decide on the winner of the €100,000 award to be announced on 12 June 2014.
Complete shortlist:
- The Detour by Gerbrand Bakker
- Questions of Travel by Michelle De Kretser
- Absolution by Patrick Flanery
- A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard
- Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye
- Traveller of the Century by Andrés Neuman
- The Light of Amsterdam by David Park
- The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
- The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
- The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Ten novels have been shortlisted for the 2014 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award, managed by Dublin City Libraries.
The list includes five novels in translation from Argentina, Colombia, France, Norway, and The Netherlands and novels from Australia, Ireland, Malaysia, the UK and the USA.
Book details
- The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
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EAN: 9781905802623
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- Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye
EAN: 9780307594693
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- The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
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- Absolution by Patrick Flanery
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EAN: 9780857892010
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