Saturday, April 07, 2007

2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Julian Barnes has been shortlisted for the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Other finalists include Salman Rushdie, Cormac McCarthy, Jonathan Safran Foer, J. M. Coetzee, Per Petterson, Peter Hobbs, and Sebastian Barry.

Details of the short listed titles of the 2007 award were announced in the Mansion House by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Councillor Vincent Jackson, Patron of the Award, on the 4th April. The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the largest and most international prize of its kind.

For more information about the award, please visit the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award website at http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/