IMPAC Dublin Longlist

    

The IMPAC Dublin award unveiled its longlist of 152 books nominated by libraries from 110 cities in 39 nations. The most cited works are Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies and Richard Ford's overrated Canada, each with nine recommendations. Sixteen titles of queer interest:

Gerbrand Bakker, The Detour/aka Ten White Geese [Kindle], five nominations

Carol Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home, five nominations

Michael Chabon, Telegraph Avenue, two nominations

Patrick Flanery, Absolution, one nomination

A.M. Homes, May We Be Forgiven, one nomination 

John Iriving, In One Person, three nominations 

Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle: Book One [Kindle], two nominations

Ayana Mathis, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, one nomination 

Toni Morrison, Home, one nomination 

Herta Müller, The Hunger Angel, one nomination

Zadie Smith, NW, three nominations  

Twan Eng Tan, The Garden of Evening Mists, one nomination

Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis, one nomination

Colm Tóibín, The Testament of Mary, two nominations

Mario Vargas Llosa, The Dream of the Celt, one nomination

Edmund White, Jack Holmes and His Friend, one nomination

The shortlist of six will be announced April 9, 2014. The winner gets €100,000 on June 12.