Il premio The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award è uno dei premi letterari più importanti al mondo. La sua caratteristica più interessante è quella di coinvolgere nelle preselezioni bibilioteche di tutto il mondo e scrittori di qualsiasi paese (anche se, per essere ‘papabile’, un libro deve essere comunque tradotto in Inglese).
Il premio è organizzato dal Dublin City Council in collaborazione con IMPAC, azienda che si occupa di management productivity.
In questo momento il premio è nella fase della longlist, ovvero una lista di centosessantadue libri promossi dalle biblioteche affiliate, che sono oltre centocinquanta e tra le quali troviamo la Biblioteca del Mulino di Bologna, la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Di Firenze, la Biblioteca Civica Centrale di Napoli e la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma.
Le librerie irlandesi sono la Cork City Library, le Dublin City Public Libraries, la Galway County Library, la Limerick City Library e la Waterford County Library.
Gli autori irlandesi facenti parte della longlist sono quattro:
Colm Tóibín, già vincitore dello stesso premio nel 2006, con The Master, e adesso in corsa con il già premiato (Costa Novel 2009) Brooklyn;
Colum McCann, con Let the Great World Spin (National Book Award 2009);
William Trevor, lo scrittore ‘di racconti per professione e di romanzi nel tempo libero’ con Love and Summer;
Peter Murphy con John the Revelator, romanzo d’esordio.
Nella longlist sono presenti anche tre autori italiani: Andrea Camilleri con La Luna di Carta, Elena Ferrante con La Figlia Oscura, Salvatore Niffoi con La Leggenda di Redenta Tiria.
Qua sotto la longlist al completo e i link più utili.
| AUTORE | TITOLO |
| Nathalie Abi-Ezzi | A Girl Made of Dust |
| Aravind Adiga | The White Tiger |
| Peter Adolphsen | Machine translated by Charlotte Barslund |
| José Eduardo Agualusa | My Father’s Wives translated by Daniel Hahn |
| Alaa Al Aswany | Chicago translated by Farouk Abdel Wahab |
| Rabih Alameddine | The Hakawati / Storyteller |
| Musharraf Ali Farooqi | The Story of a Widow |
| Nadeem Aslam | The Wasted Vigil |
| Kate Atkinson | When Will There Be Good News? |
| Stéphane Audeguy | The Only Son translated by John Cullen |
| Paul Auster | Man in the Dark |
| Gerbrand Bakker | The Twin translated by David Colmer |
| Muriel Barbery | The Elegance of the Hedgehog translated by Alison Anderson |
| Joan Barfoot | Exit Lines |
| Kim Barnes | A Country Called Home |
| Sebastian Barry | The Secret Scripture |
| Louis Bayard | The Black Tower |
| David Benioff | City of Thieves |
| Charles Bock | Beautiful Children |
| C.J. Box | Blood Trail |
| Joseph Boyden | Through Black Spruce |
| Stefan Brijs | The Angel Maker translated by Hester Velmans |
| Geraldine Brooks | People of the Book |
| Shannon Burke | Black Flies |
| Ian Buruma | The China Lover |
| Andrea Camilleri | The Paper Moon (La Luna di Carta) translated by Stephen Sartarelli |
| Ethan Canin | America, America |
| Martin Caparrós | Valfierno: the man who stole the Mona Lisa translated by Jasper Reid |
| Peter Carey | His Illegal Self |
| Eleanor Catton | The Rehearsal |
| Daína Chaviano | The Island of Eternal Love translated by Andrea G. Labinger |
| Chris Cleave | The Other Hand / Little Bee |
| Maurice G. Dantec | Cosmos Incorporated translated by Tina A. Kover |
| Andrew Davidson | The Gargoyle |
| Luke Davies | God of Speed |
| Kate de Goldi | The 10pm Question |
| Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | The Palace of Illusions |
| José Rodrigues dos Santos | Codex 632: The Secret Identity of Christopher Columbus translated by Alison Entrekin |
| Gyorgy Dragoman | The White King translated by Paul Olchvary |
| Slavenka Drakulic | Frida’s Bed translated by Zoric Pribichevich |
| Bernard du Boucheron | The Voyage of the Short Serpent translated by Hester Velmans |
| Robert Edric | In Zodiac Light |
| Marina Endicott | Good to a Fault |
| Leif Enger | So Brave, Young and Handsome |
| Louise Erdrich | The Plague of Doves |
| Bernardine Evaristo | Blonde Roots |
| Elena Ferrante | The Lost Daughter (La Figlia Oscura) translated by Ann Goldstein |
| Laura Fish | Strange Music |
| Richard Flanagan | Wanting |
| Jeffrey Ford | The Shadow Year |
| Annica Foxcroft | There are Ants in my Sugar |
| Steven Galloway | The Cellist of Sarajevo |
| Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza | Blackout translated by Benjamin Moser |
| Helen Garner | The Spare Room |
| Amitav Ghosh | Sea of Poppies |
| Shehani Gomes | Learning to Fly |
| Andrew Sean Greer | The Story of a Marriage |
| Arnon Grunberg | The Jewish Messiah |
| Manu Gunasena | The Prince |
| Rawi Hage | Cockroach |
| Kenneth J. Harvey | Blackstrap Hawco: said to be about a Newfoundland family |
| Milton Hatoum | Ashes of the Amazon translated by John Gledson |
| Samuel Hazo | This Part of the World |
| Christoph Hein | Settlement translated by Philip Boehm |
| Zoë Heller | The Believers |
| Aleksander Hemon | The Lazarus Project |
| Philip Hensher | The Northern Clemency |
| Linda Hogan | People of the Whale |
| Nicholas Hogg | Show Me The Sky |
| Samantha Hunt | The Invention of Everything Else |
| Siri Hustvedt | The Sorrows of an American |
| Arnaldur Indridson | Arctic Chill translated by Victoria Cribb and Bernard Scudder |
| Rowley Jeffrey | Gems in the Cracks |
| Ma Jian | Beijing Coma |
| Stephanie Johnson | Swimmers’ Rope |
| Sadie Jones | The Outcast |
| Hillary Jordan | Mudbound |
| Hedi Kaddour | Waltenberg translated by David Coward |
| Emmanuel Kariuki | The Red Coat |
| James Kelman | Kieron Smith, Boy |
| Karl Ove Knausgaard | A Time To Every Purpose Under Heaven translated by James Anderson |
| Jane F. Kotapish | Salvage |
| James Howard Kunstler | World Made By Hand |
| Hanif Kureishi | Something To Tell You |
| Rachel Kushner | Telex from Cuba |
| Feri Lainscek | Murisa translated by Erica Johnson Debelsak |
| Charles Lambert | Little Monsters |
| Patrick Lane | Red Dog, Red Dog |
| Mandla Langa | The Lost Colours of the Chameleon |
| Ursula K. LeGuin | Lavinia |
| Dennis Lehane | The Given Day |
| Lauren Liebenberg | The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam |
| David Lodge | Deaf Sentence |
| Deirdre Madden | Molly Fox’s Birthday |
| Andrei Makine | Human Love translated by Geoffrey Strachan |
| Adam Mansbach | The End of the Jews |
| Adam Mars-Jones | Pilcrow |
| Richard Mason | The Lighted Rooms |
| James Meek | We Are Now Beginning Our Descent |
| Kei Miller | The Same Earth |
| Donna Milner | After River |
| Simon Montefiore | Sashenka |
| Clare Morrall | The Language of Others |
| Toni Morrison | A Mercy |
| Kate Morton | The Forgotten Garden |
| Walter Mosley | Diablerie |
| Jay Neugeboren | 1940 |
| Salvatore Niffoi | The Legend of Redenta Tiria (La Leggenda di Redenta Tiria) translated by Shaun Whiteside |
| H. R. Ole Kulet | Blossoms of the Savannah |
| Linda Olsson | Sonata for Miriam |
| Stewart O’Nan | Song for the Missing |
| Joseph O’Neill | Netherland |
| David Park | The Truth Commissioner |
| Emily Perkins | Novel About My Wife |
| Tom Piazza | City of Refuge |
| Richard Price | Lush Life |
| Ross Raisin | God’s Own Country |
| Ruana Rajepakse | The Garland of Fate |
| Ron Rash | Serena |
| Marilynne Robinson | Home |
| Roxana Robinson | Cost |
| Olivier Rolin | Hotel Crystal translated by Jane Kuntz |
| Jian Rong | Wolf Totem translated by Howard Goldblatt |
| Evelio Rosero | The Armies translated by Anne McLean |
| Philip Roth | Indignation |
| Anuradha Roy | An Atlas of Impossible Longing |
| Salman Rushdie | The Enchantress of Florence |
| Mary Doria Russell | Dreamers of the Day |
| José Saramago | Death With Interuptions translated by Margaret Jull Costa |
| Ingo Schulze | New Lives: The youth of Enrico Turmer in letter and prose translated by John E. Woods |
| Anne Simpson | Falling |
| Jaspreet Singh | Chef |
| Curtis Sittenfeld | American Wife |
| Paul Leslie Smith | Rainforest Tears; A Borneo Story |
| Tom Rob Smith | Child 44 |
| Sasa Stanisic | How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone translated by Anthea Bell |
| Garth Stein | The Art of Racing in the Rain |
| Fred Stenson | The Great Karoo |
| Neal Stephenson | Anathem |
| Joan Thomas | Reading by Lightning |
| Hannah Tinti | The Good Thief |
| Steve Toltz | A Fraction of the Whole |
| Illiya Troyanov | The Collector of Worlds translated by William Hobson |
| Christos Tsiolkas | The Slap |
| Linn Ullmann | A Blessed Child translated by Sarah Death |
| Cecilia Urbina | A Tuesday Like Today translated by Clare E. Sullivan |
| Simone Van Der Vlugt | The Renunion translated by Michelle Hutchinson |
| Fred Vargas | This Night’s Foul Work translated by Sian Reynolds |
| Juan Gabriel Vasquez | The Informers translated by Anne McLean |
| Tanguy Viel | Beyond Suspicion translated by Linda Coverdale |
| John Edgar Wideman | Fanon |
| Tim Winton | Breath |
| Esther Woolfson | Piano Angel |
| David Wroblewski | The Story of Edgar Sawtelle |
| Arnold Zable | Sea of Many Returns |
| Zoran Zivkovic | Escher’s Loops |
LINK O’TECA
Articolo sull’Irish Times
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Dublin City Council
Italish Magazine Irlandesi Dentro