Obama Favourite O'Neill in IMPAC shortlist
Book2Book Monday 12 Apr 2010

 

The shortlist for the world's richest literary prize was unveiled today with one Irish and three British authors making the grade.

The final eight in the €100,000 Impac Dublin Literary Award include Robert Edric, Zoe Heller and Ross Raisin from the UK and Ireland's Joseph O'Neill, oic right.
The books were selected from a longlist of 156 novels nominated by 163 public libraries in 123 cities around the world.

The shortlisted titles are:

The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker.

The Elegance Of The Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery.

In Zodiac Light by Robert Edric.

Settlement by Christoph Hein.

The Believers by Zoe Heller.

Netherland by Joseph O'Neill.

God's Own Country by Ross Raisin.

Home by Marilynne Robinson.

Irish Examiner
Irish Independent
Irish Times

And from The Guardian:
Impac Dublin prize shortlist snubs Roth and Coetzee for newcomers
Three debut novelists in line for €100,000 award, ahead of books by some of literature's most venerable names