International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award was established in 1995. It is administered by Dublin City Public Libraries and is a joint initiative of Dublin City Municipal Government and the company IMPAC. The aim of the award is to promote quality literature on an international basis. The award is open to works of fiction written in or translated into English, and libraries in major cities throughout the world make the nominations.

2005

The Known World / Edward P. Jones (Winner)
Gardening at Night / Diane Awerbuck
The Half Brother / Lars Saabye Christensen
The Good Doctor / Damon Galgut
Elle / Douglas Glover
Phantom Pain / Arnon Grunberg
The Great Fire / Shirley Hazzard
Willenbrock / Christoph Hein
Deafening / Frances Itani
The Fortress of Solitude / Jonathan Lethem

2004

This Blinding Absence of Light / Tahar Ben Jelloun (Winner)
The Book of Illusions / Paul Auster
Any Human Heart / William Boyd
Caramelo / Sandra Cisneros
Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides
The White Family / Maggie Gee
Balthasar's Odyssey / Amin Maalouf
Family Matters / Rohinton Mistry
Earth and Ashes / Atiq Rahimi
House of Day, House of Night / Olga Tokarczuk

2003

My Name is Red / Orhan Pamuk (Winner)
The Ash Garden / Dennis Bock
Bitter Fruit / Achmat Dangor
The Royal Physician's Visit / Per Olov Enquist
The Corrections / Jonathan Franzen
The Painter of Birds / Lidia Jorge
By the Lake / John McGahern
Bel Canto / Ann Patchett

2002

The Elementary Particles / Michel Houellebecq (Winner)
The Blind Assassin / Margaret Atwood
True History of the Kelly Gang / Peter Carey
The Keepers of Truth / Michael Collins
The Last Samurai / Helen DeWitt
The Years with Laura Diaz / Carlos Fuentes
Madame / Antoni Libera

2001