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…