Australian, NZ authors on IMPAC Dublin 2015 longlist

Tuesday, 25 November 2014 Books+Publishing

A number of books by Australian and New Zealand authors have been longlisted for the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Books by Australian authors on the longlist are:

The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Richard Flanagan, Vintage)
Burial Rites (Hannah Kent, Picador)
Mullumbimby (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)
Coal Creek (Alex Miller, A&U)
The Rosie Project (Graeme Simsion, Text)
Barracuda (Christos Tsiolkas, A&U)
Eyrie (Tim Winton, Penguin)
Cairo (Chris Womersley, Scribe)
The Swan Book (Alexis Wright, Giramondo)
The Childhood of Jesus (J M Coetzee)

Books by New Zealand authors on the longlist are:

The Luminaries (Eleanor Catton, Granta)
The Last Days of the National Costume (Anne Kennedy, A&U)
The Infinite Air (Fiona Kidman, Vintage)
The Disestablishment of Paradise (Phillip Mann, Victor Gollancz).

The shortlist for the 2015 award will be announced on 15 April and the winner will be announced on 17 June.

A total of 142 books were nominated for the 2015 award by libraries in 39 different countries. This year’s longlist includes 49 novels that have been translated into English and 29 debut novels. The compete longlist is available online here.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North was the most popular title nominated by Australian libraries, with four nominations from libraries in Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide and Brisbane. To see all the titles nominated by Australian libraries, click here.

The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is worth €100,000 (A$144,415), making it the most valuable prize for a novel published in English. The 2014 award was presented to Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vásquez for his novel The Sound of Things Falling (Bloomsbury), translated from the original Spanish.

For more information about the award, visit the website here.

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