Emma Donoghue's Room Gets 20 IMPAC Nominations

Twenty libraries in seven countries nominated Emma Donoghue's bestselling, much shortlisted Room for the very rich IMPAC Dublin fiction prize. Her nearest competition is David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet with thirteen nominations and Jonathan Franzen's Freedom with twelve.

The handful of queer titles on the very, very long longlist include Kathleen Winter's Annabel, Kathe Koja's gay-inclusive Victorian-era novel of brothels and puppets, Under the Poppy, and Michael Cunningham's By Nightfall.

Read the entire list of 147 titles here.