The Impac Dublin Literary Award Winner

Publishers Lunch

The Impac Dublin Literary Award has gone to Jim Crace's Harvest. (The book had been the bettors' favorite to win the Booker in 2013, losing out to Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries.) The judges said: "At times, Harvest reads like a long prose poem; it plays on the ear like a river of words. But then again, Jim Crace is a consummate wordsmith; his understanding of human nature is uncanny and he never drops a stitch from start to finish. All human life is here: its graces and disgraces and there is life too in every small stone, flower and blade of grass."

France will be the Guest of Honor country at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2017.