Finalists for this year's €100,000 (US$137,950) IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, presented annually for a novel written in English or translated into English, have been announced. The winner of one of the world's richest literary awards will be named June 12. The shortlisted IMPAC titles are:
The Detour by Gerbrand Bakke (Dutch), translated by David Colmer
Questions of Travel by Michelle De Kretser (Sri Lankan/Australian)
Absolution by Patrick Flanery (American)
A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard (Norwegian), translated by Don Bartlett.
Three Strong Woman by Marie NDiaye (French), translated by John Fletcher
Traveller of the Century by Andrés Neuman (Argentinian), translated from the original Spanish by Nick Caistor & Lorenza Garcia.
The Light of Amsterdam by David Park (Northern Irish)
The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan (Irish)
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng (Malaysian)
The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Colombian), translated from the original Spanish by Anne McLean.
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Finalists have been announced for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. The winners, each of whom will receive $5,000, will be named June 28 during the American Library Association's annual conference in Las Vegas, Nev. This year's shortlisted titles are:
Fiction
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf)
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat (Knopf)
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown)
Nonfiction
On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand Year History by Nicholas A. Basbanes (Knopf)
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink (Crown)
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin (S&S)
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The shortlist has been announced for the £10,000 (US$16,600) Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. The winning author and translator will be honored May 22 in London. This year's shortlisted titles are:
A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgård, translated from Norwegian by Don Bartlett
A Meal in Winter by Hubert Mingarelli, translated from French by Sam Taylor
Revenge by Yoko Ogawa, translated from Japanese by Stephen Snyder
Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami, translated from Japanese by Allison Markin Powell
The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim, translated from Arabic by Jonathan Wright
The Mussel Feast by Birgit Vanderbeke, translated from German by Jamie Bulloch
