7/8/2023 0 Comments An atlas of impossible longing![]() ![]() Muriel Barbery's French bestseller The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Barry's Costa-winning The Secret Scripture and Canadian writer Steven Galloway's The Cellist of Sarajevo all won eight nominations as well.Īlso longlisted for the Impac, at €100,000 (£90,000) the most valuable literary award for a single work of fiction published in English, are Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence, Peter Carey's His Illegal Self, Philip Roth's Indignation and Marilynne Robinson's Home, as well as 33 first novels, Neal Stephenson's science fiction epic Anathem and Fred Vargas's French whodunit This Night's Foul Work. ![]() This year, at 41 novels, we have the largest number of books in translation to date."Īdiga is the librarians' favourite, gathering nine nominations for The White Tiger, but he is closely followed by Toni Morrison, who picked up eight for A Mercy, the story of a 17th century slave girl bought by an Anglo-Dutch trader. "The spread of languages and the number of books in translation continues to grow. ![]() "These are books that might not otherwise come to the attention of Irish readers," said Dublin city librarian Deirdre Ellis-King. ![]()
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