IMPAC SHORT LIST

The short list for the Impac award has been published and includes Donal Ryan for The Spinning Heart.  I reviewed it 18 November last year.   The winner will be announced on 12 June.   Here are the runners!

• The Detour by Gerbrand Bakker (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 Women by Marie NDiaye (French), translated by John Fletcher
• Traveller of the Century by Andrés Neuman (Argentinian), translated by Nick Caistor and 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), 

 I reviewed The Detour on 17 May 2012.  A compelling and intense novel.