2012 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Winner
Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor

Shortlist
Rocks in the Belly by Jon Bauer
The Matter with Morris by David Bergen
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
Landed by Tim Pears
Limassol by Yishai Sarid
The Eternal Son by Cristovao Tezza
Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin

Longlist
Lyrics Alley by Leila Aboulela
The Sky is Falling by Caroline Adderson
The Lessons by Naomi Alderman
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
Sunset Park by Paul Auster
The Silence of Mohammed by Salim Bachi
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Goree: a point of departure by Angela Barry
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
Aphrodite’s War by Andrea Bushfield
Bandit Love by Massimo Carlotto
The Vintage and the Gleaning by Jeremy Chambers
A Different Sky by Meira Chand
Exley by Brock Clarke
The Water Theatre by Lindsay Clarke
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell  Sim by Jonathan Coe
Mocking Jay by Suzanne Collins
The Reversal by Michael Connelly
The Passage by Justin Cronin
By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham
Point Omega by Don DeLillo
Witness the Night by Kishwar Desai
One Amazing Thing by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Room by Emma Donoghue
The Einstein Enigma by José Rodrigues dos Santos
The Pleasure Seekers by Tishani Doshi
The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore
Kaya, Belgrade and the Good American by Mirjana Durdevic
Days of Change by Chuah Guat Eng
Counterpoint by Anna Enquist
Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich
Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck
Gifted by Patrick Evans
The Book of Lost Threads by Tess Evans
The Blasphemer by Nigel Farndale
The Hut Builder by Laurence Fearnley
The Book Club by Marjolijn Februari
Juliet by Anne Fortier
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Faithful Place by Tana French
Consolation by Anna Gavalda
The Only Witness to Beauty by Miro Gavran
The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb
Chosen by Lesley Glaister
The Widower’s Tale by Julia Glass
Unfinished Desires by Gail Godwin
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
To the End of the Land by David Grossman
The Body in the Clouds by Ashley Hay
Snakewoman of Little Egypt by Robert Hellenga
Elegies for the Broken Hearted by Christie Hodgen
Mr. Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt
My Friend Jesus Christ by Lars Husum
Daisy Chains by Kevin Ireland
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
Da Happie Laand by Alan Jamieson
World and Town by Gish Jen
We, the drowned by Carsten Jensen
Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones
Serious Men by Manu Joseph
The Eighth Day by Mitsuyo Kakuta
Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay
The Convent by Panos Karnezis
Swell by Ioanna Karystiani
Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
Fame by Daniel Kehlmann
Under the Poppy by Kathe Koja
Great House by Nicole Krauss
The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee
A Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible by Christy Lefteri
The Long Song by Andrea Levy
Lost by Alice Lichtenstein
Harbour by John Ajvide Lindquist
Train to Budapest by Dacia Maraini
Beatrice & Virgil by Yann Martel
Dog-Heart by Diana McCaulay
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
When Colts Ran by Roger McDonald
Solar by Ian McEwan
Kraken: an anatomy by China Miéville
The Last Warner Woman by Kei Miller
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
The Book of Heroes by Miyabe Miyuki
The Extinction Club by Jeffrey Moore
The Last Weekend by Blake Morrison
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
The Gendarme by Mark T Mustian
The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
Settler’s Creek by Carl Nixon
21 Immortals by Roslan Mohd Noor
The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
The News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Purge by Sofi Oksanen
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
The Piano Cemetery by José Luis Peixoto
I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson
The Sea Captain’s Wife by Beth Powning
Model Home by Eric Puchner
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi
The Lament of the Dhobi Woman by Karen Roberts
The Still Point by Amy Sackville
Heartstone by CJ Sansom
The Three Weissmans of Westport by Cathleen Schine
The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink
That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott
Chilli, Chicks & Heart Attacks by Sanjaya Senanayake
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
Inheritance by Nicholas Shakespeare
Happy Now? by Katherine Shonk
So Much for That by Lionel Shriver
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Birdbrain by Johanna Sinisalo
Dry Season by Dan Smith
Constantine’s Crossing by Dejan Stojilokovic
Curiosity by Joan Thomas
The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
Goodnight Father by Chike Uzoma
Bride Flight by Marieke Van Der Pol
The Secret History of Costaguana by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
The Russian Window by Dragan Velikic
Cool Water by Dianne Warren
Weeping Underwater Looks a Lot Like Laughter by Michael J White
In the Same Boat by Channa Wickremesekera
Luke and Jon by Robert Williams
A Death in Panama by Ronald I Williams
Their Faces Were Shining by Tim Wilson
Annabel by Kathleen Winter
Bereft by Chris Womersley
The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra
The Sandbox by David Zimmerman

2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Winner
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

Shortlist
Galore by Michael Crummey
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
Ransom by David Malouf
Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
Inner-City Girl by Colleen Smith-Dennis
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Love and Summer by William Trevor
After the Fire, a Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld

Longlist
The House in Via Manno by Milena Agus
As God Commands by Niccolò Ammaniti
The Danger Game by Kalinda Ashton
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Invisible by Paul Auster
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Hamam Balkania by Vladislav Bajac
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
The Ninth by Ferenc Barnás
Kings of the Water by Mark Behr
Infinity in the Palm of her Hand by Gioconda Belli
Above All, Don’t Look Back by Maissa Bey
The Library of Shadows by Mikkel Birkegaard
Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom by Marie-Claire Blais
Breaking Lorca by Giles Blunt
Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
The Women by TC Boyle
Strangers by Anita Brookner
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
No Place Strange by Diana Fitzgerald Bryden
The Children’s Book by AS Byatt
Poisonville by Massimo Carlotto
The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Hyperdream by Hélène Cixous
Brodeck’s Report by Philippe Claudel
Red Bones by Ann Cleeves
Summertime by JM Coetzee
Everything Matters! by Ron Currie Jr.
Grand Junction by Maurice G Dantec
Solo by Rana Dasgupta
Spooner by Pete Dexter
Homer and Langley by EL Doctorow
A Day and a Night and a Day by Glen Duncan
Running by Jean Echenoz
The Disappeared by Kim Echlin
The Wild Things by Dave Eggers
The Family Tree by Ilsa Evans
The Way Things Look to Me by Roopa Farooki
Limestone by Fiona Farrell
A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks
Mother’s Day by Laurence Fearnley
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
The Blind Side of the Heart by Julia Franck
The Whole Day Through by Patrick Gale
Alone in the Crowd by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
Access Road by Maurice Gee
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
Sunnyside by Glen David Gold
Half World by Hiromi Goto
Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas
Valley of Grace by Marion Halligan
Tinkers by Paul Harding
The Double Crown by Marié Heese
The Turtle Catcher by Nicole Helget
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
Blame by Michelle Huneven
The Moon in the Water by Ameena Hussein
This is How by MJ Hyland
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
Leaving Tangier by Tahar Ben Jelloun
The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles
The Age of Orphans by Laleh Khadivi
Sifu: An Unusual Teacher in the Turbulence of the Malayan War by Khoo Kheng-Hor
Magpie Hall by Rachael King
Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella
Farewell: A Mansion in Occupied Istanbul by Ayse Kulin
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
The Game of Opposites by Norman Lebrecht
A Minute’s Silence by Siegfried Lenz
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
Border Songs by Jim Lynch
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou
The Bishop’s Man by Linden MacIntyre
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Your Face Tomorrow by Javier Marías
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
All the Colours of the Town by Liam McIlvanney
Black Diamond by Zakes Mda
Lost World by Patricia Melo
American Rust by Phillip Meyer
A Man Who is Not a Man by Thando Mgqolozana
The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
The City & the City by China Miéville
Lovesong by Alex Miller
Manituana by Wu Ming
Under This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell
February by Lisa Moore
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
All the Living by CE Morgan
In a Dark Wood by Marcel Moring
The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
John the Revelator by Peter Murphy
Home Boy by HM Naqvi
One Day by David Nicholls
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Anna In-Between by Elizabeth Nunez
Adulterers by Vida Ognjenovic
The China Garden by Kristina Olsson
Rhyming Life and Death by Amos Oz
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
Little Ice Cream Boy by Jacques Pauw
They All Ate Sushi by Eva Petric
In the Falling Snow by Caryl Phillips
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
Thursday Night Widows by Claudia Pineiro
The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger
The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn
Galileo’s Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
Red April by Santiago Roncagliolo
The Devil’s Music by Jane Rusbridge
Joseph’s Box by Suhayl Saadi
Without Saying Goodbye by Maryam Sachs
The Shape of Him by Gill Schierhout
Beauty by Raphael Selbourne
Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
A Monster’s Notes by Laurie Sheck
The Defector by Daniel Silva
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
Sunset Oasis by Bahaa Taher
Giv: The Story of a Dog and America by Boston Teran
Running Away by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Waiting for Columbus by Thomas Trofimuk
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugresic
On Black Sisters’ Street by Chika Unigwe
Lake Como by Srdjan Valjarevic
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Close-Up by Esther Verhoef
Madame Verona Comes Down the Hill by Dimitri Verhulst
Deaf Heaven by Pinki Virani
Season of Ash by Jorge Volpi
In the United States of Africa by Abdourahman Waberi
A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert
Half- Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
The German Wedding by Pieter Waterdrinker
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
Joe Speedboat by Tommy Wieringa
Theravada Man by Manuka Wijesinghe
Somebody Loves Us All by Damien Wilkins
As the Earth Turns Silver by Alison Wong
The Leisure Seeker by Michael Zadoorian
The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Winner
The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker

Shortlist
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
In Zodiac Light by Robert Edric
Settlement by Christoph Hein
The Believers by Zöe Heller
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
God's Own Country by Ross Raisin
Home by Marilynne Robinson

Longlist
A Girl Made of Dust by Nathalie Abi-Ezzi
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Machine by Peter Adolphsen
My Father’s Wives by José Eduardo Agualusa
Chicago by Alaa Al Aswany
The Hakawati/Storyteller by Rabih Alameddine
The Story of a Widow by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam
When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
The Only Son by Stéphane Audeguy
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
Exit Lines by Joan Barfoot
A Country Called Home by Kim Barnes
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
The Black Tower by Louis Bayard
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Beautiful Children by Charles Bock
Blood Trail by CJ Box
Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
The Angel Maker by Stefan Brijs
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Black Flies by Shannon Burke
The China Lover by Ian Buruma
The Paper Moon by Andrea Camilleri
America, America by Ethan Canin
Valfierno: the man who stole the Mona Lisa by Martin Caparrós
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
The Island of Eternal Love by Daína Chaviano
The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
Cosmos Incorporated by Maurice G Dantec
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
God of Speed by Luke Davies
The 10pm Question by Kate de Goldi
The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Codex 632: The Secret Identity of Christopher Columbus by José Rodrigues dos Santos
The White King by Gyorgy Dragoman
Frida’s Bed by Slavenka Drakulic
The Voyage of the Short Serpent by Bernard du Boucheron
Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott
So Brave, Young and Handsome by Leif Enger
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
Strange Music by Laura Fish
Wanting by Richard Flanagan
The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford
There are Ants in my Sugar by Annica Foxcroft
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Blackout by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Learning to Fly by Shehani Gomes
The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
The Jewish Messiah by Arnon Grunberg
The Prince by Manu Gunasena
Cockroach by Rawi Hage
Blackstrap Hawco: said to be about a Newfoundland family by Kenneth J Harvey
Ashes of the Amazon by Milton Hatoum
This Part of the World by Samuel Hazo
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
People of the Whale by Linda Hogan
Show Me The Sky by Nicholas Hogg
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt
Arctic Chill by Arnaldur Indriðason
Gems in the Cracks by Rowley Jeffrey
Beijing Coma by Ma Jian
Swimmers’ Rope by Stephanie Johnson
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Waltenberg by Hedi Kaddour
The Red Coat by Emmanuel Kariuki
Kieron Smith, Boy by James Kelman
A Time To Every Purpose Under Heaven by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Salvage by Jane F Kotapish
World Made By Hand by James Howard Kunstler
Something To Tell You by Hanif Kureishi
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
Murisa by Feri Lainscek
Little Monsters by Charles Lambert
Red Dog, Red Dog by Patrick Lane
The Lost Colours of the Chameleon by Mandla Langa
Lavinia by Ursula K Le Guin
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden
Human Love by Andrei Makine
The End of the Jews by Adam Mansbach
Pilcrow by Adam Mars-Jones
The Lighted Rooms by Richard Mason
We Are Now Beginning Our Descent by James Meek
The Same Earth by Kei Miller
After River by Donna Milner
Sashenka by Simon Montefiore
The Language of Others by Clare Morrall
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Diablerie by Walter Mosley
1940 by Jay Neugeboren
The Legend of Redenta Tiria by Salvatore Niffoi
Blossoms of the Savannah by HR Ole Kulet
Sonata for Miriam by Linda Olsson
Songs for the Missing by Stewart O'Nan
The Truth Commissioner by David Park
Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins
City of Refuge by Tom Piazza
Lush Life by Richard Price
The Garland of Fate by Ruana Rajepakse
Serena by Ron Rash
Cost by Roxana Robinson
Hotel Crystal by Olivier Rolin
Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong
The Armies by Evelio Rosero
Indignation by Philip Roth
An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha Roy
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
Death With Interuptions by José Saramago
New Lives: The youth of Enrico Turmer in letter and prose by Ingo Schulze
Falling by Anne Simpson
Chef by Jaspreet Singh
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
Rainforest Tears; A Borneo Story by Paul Leslie Smith
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Great Karoo by Fred Stenson
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Reading by Lightning by Joan Thomas
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
The Collector of Worlds by Iliya Troyanov
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
A Blessed Child by Linn Ullmann
A Tuesday Like Today by Cecilia Urbina
The Renunion by Simone Van Der Vlugt
This Night's Foul Work by Fred Vargas
The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Beyond Suspicion by Tanguy Viel
Fanon by John Edgar Wideman
Breath by Tim Winton
Piano Angel by Esther Woolfson
The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Sea of Many Returns by Arnold Zable
Escher’s Loops by Zoran Zivkovic