Awards, volume 1
The shortlist for the Ireland-based IMPAC award has been announced:
Gardening at Night by Diane Awerbuck
The Half Brother by Lars Saabye Christensen (translated from the Norwegian by Kenneth Steven)
The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
Elle by Douglas Glover
Phantom Pain by Arnon Grunberg (translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett)
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
Willenbrock by Christoph Hein (translated from the German by Philip Boehm)
Deafening by Frances Itani
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
I keep forgetting IMPAC is awarding books published in 2003, because man, this list is stale…