International Dublin Literary Award

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International Dublin Literary Award, 30 Books

The International Dublin Literary Award (Irish: Duais Liteartha Idirnáisiúnta Bhaile Átha Chliath), established as the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, is presented each year for a novel written or translated into English. It promotes excellence in world literature and is solely sponsored by Dublin City Council, Ireland. At €100,000, the award is one of the richest literary prizes in the world. There are 5 voters every year.

This list is a yearly book award, and was added to this site over 2 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
2392 Remembering Babylon David Malouf 1993 Australian English
451 A Heart So White Javier Marias 1992 Spanish Spanish
6700 The Land Of Green Plums Herta Müller 1994 German German
4537 Ingenious Pain Andrew Miller 1997 British English
13245 Wide Open Nicola Barker 1998 British English
4561 No Great Mischief Alistair MacLeod 1999 Canadian English
656 The Elementary Particles Michel Houellebecq 1998 French French
1299 My Name is Red Orhan Pamuk 1998 Turkish Turkish
13245 This Blinding Absence Of Light Tahar Ben Jelloun 2001 French French
574 The Known World Edward P. Jones 2003 American English
1787 The Master Colm Toibin 2004 Irish English
3900 Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson 2003 Norwegian Norwegian
3833 De Niro's Game Rawi Hage 2006 Canadian English
8801 Man Gone Down Michael Thomas 2007 American English
5705 The Twin Gerbrand Bakker 2006 Dutch Dutch
1984 Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann 2009 Irish English
13245 Even The Dogs Jon McGregor 2010 British English
3811 City of Bohane Kevin Barry 2011 Irish English
5587 The Sound Of Things Falling Juan Gabriel Vásquez 2011 Colombian Spanish
10147 Harvest Jim Crace 2013 British English
2287 Family Life Akhil Sharma 2014 Indian English
5304 A General Theory Of Oblivion José Eduardo Agualusa 2012 Angolan Portuguese
3466 Solar Bones Mike McCormack 2016 Irish English
13245 Idaho Emily Ruskovich 2017 American English
2311 Milkman Anna Burns 2018 Irish English
2703 Lost Children Archive Valeria Luiselli 2019 Mexican English
8387 The Art Of Losing Alice Zeniter 2017 French French
13245 Marzahn, Mon Amour Katja Oskamp 2019 German German
2304 Solenoid Mircea Cărtărescu 2015 Romanian Romanian
13245 The Adversary Michael Crummey 2024 Canadian English