IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the largest and most international prize of its kind. It involves libraries from all corners of the globe, and is open to books written in any language. The Award is a joint initiative of the Dublin, Ireland City Council, the Municipal Government of Dublin City, and the productivity improvement company IMPAC. The award is administered by Dublin City public libraries.

2003 - Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Read

Others Short Listed:

• Per Olov Enquist, The Royal Physician's Visit
• Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
• Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

2002 - Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles (Atomized)

Others Short Listed:

• Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang
• Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
• Carlos Fuentes, The Years with Laura Diaz
• Antoni Libera, Madame

2001 - Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief

Others Short Listed:

• Victor Pelevin, Buddha's Little Finger
• Colm Toibin, The Blackwater Lightship

2000 - Nicola Barker, Wide Open

Others Short Listed:

• Michael Cunningham, The Hours
• Toni Morrison, Paradise
• Philip Roth, I Married a Communist

1999 - Andrew Miller, Ingenious Pain

Others Short Listed:

• Don DeLillo, Underworld
• Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
• Haruki Murakami, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
• Bernard Schlink, The Reader

1998 - Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

• Andre Brink, Imaginings of Sand
• David Foster, The Glade within the Grove
• Jamaica Kincaid, Autobiography of my Mother
• Graham Swift, Last Orders
• Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy

1997 - Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues

• Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
• Lars Gustafsson, A Tiller's Afternoon
• Alan Warner,Morvern Callar

1996 - John Banville, Ghosts

• V.S Naipaul, A Way In The World
• Jose Saramago, The Gospel According To Jesus Christ
• Jane Urquhart, Away