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Fiction Matters the Newsletter of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2005 No. 11 April 2005 Fiction Matters The Newsletter of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2005 Complete list of eligible titles Winner of the 2004 Award The 2005 Award This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun, translated from the French. 2005 Award Judges at the announcement of the Long List in Dublin, November 2004. Tahar Ben Jelloun, receiving his Councillor Deirdre Heney representing the Lord Key Dates Waterford Crystal trophy. Mayor of Dublin, Patron of the Award, with 15th November 2004 Linda Coverdale, translator of the winning title. Announcement of long list of eligible titles and panel of international judges 8th March 2005 Shortlist Announcement 15th June 2005 Winner Announcement 17th June 2005 Presentation Dinner L to R: Dr. J.B. Irwin, chair of IMPAC, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Deirdre Ellis-King, Dublin City Librarian and John Fitzgerald, Dublin City Manager. Judging Panel 2005 Nino Ricci was born in Ontario, Jonathan Buckley was born in Canada and has taught both in Birmingham, UK. He is the author of Canada and abroad. He now lives Rough Guide to Venice & the Veneto in Toronto, where he writes full- in addition to writing guidebooks on time. He is a past president of the Tuscany & Umbria and Florence, and Canadian Centre of International contributing to the Rough Guides to PEN, a writers’ human rights classical music and opera. His first organization that works for freedom novel, The Biography of Thomas of expression. He is the author of Lang, was published in 1997. Xerxes four award-winning novels, Lives of followed in 1999, Ghost MacIndoe the Saints, winner of the Governor in 2001, and Invisible in 2004. Since Nino Ricci General's Award for Fiction, In A Jonathan Buckley 2003 Jonathan has held a Royal Glass House, Where She Has Gone Literary Fund fellowship at the and, most recently, Testament. University of Sussex. Milan Richter is a poet, translator Agnès Desarthe was born in 1966 and publisher, born in Bratislava in in Paris, where she now lives with 1948. He has published eight volumes her husband - a filmmaker, and of poetry including From Behind the her two children. She has worked Velvet Curtains, 1997, An Angel with as a translator and has published Black Feathers, 2000 and The Wrecked numerous books for children and Temple in Me, 2002. He was forbidden teenagers. She is the author of six to publish for more than ten years and novels, two of which, Five Photos during this time he devoted all his of My Wife and Good Intentions, creative activity to translation. He has have been published in English to served as chairman of Slovak Literary great acclaim. She received the Milan Richter Translators Society and as vice-chairman Agnès Desarthe Prix Inter 1996 for her novel Un of the Slovak PEN Centre. He has been Secret Sans Importance. director of the Jan Smrek International Literary Festival in Bratislava which he launched in 2000. Eugene R. Sullivan, non-voting Rita Ann Higgins was born in 1955 chair of the judging panel, is a in Galway, Ireland. She is the author former Chief Judge of a US Court of eight collections of poetry, the of Appeals and brings a wealth most recent being An Awful Racket, of experience from sixteen years 2001. Throw in the Vowels: New & on the bench. His first novel, The Selected Poems is due in May 2005. Majority Rules, will be published She has edited Out the Clara Road: in January 2005. The Offaly Anthology and co-edited He currently heads up a judicial Word and Image: a collection of consultancy group outside of poems from Sunderland Women's Washington, D.C. Centre and Washington Bridge Eugene R. Sullivan Rita Ann Higgins Centre and Fizz: poetry of resistance and challenge 2004 – a poetry anthology written by young people. Rita has also written three plays. She is a member of Aosdána. The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is presented annually for a novel written in English or translated into English. The award is an initiative of Dublin City Council, the municipal government of Dublin, in partnership with IMPAC, a leading management productivity enhancement company, with the objective of promoting excellence in world literature. Nominations are submitted by library systems in major cities throughout the world. 2005 Nominations 4 Crescent Yet Eddie still desperately seeks redemption With wit and sympathy, Jane Alison in the still unknown last act of his life: was choreographs an intricate minuet among these Diana Abu-Jaber it a heroic success or a devastating failure? characters, drawn by love and loneliness, Nominated by The answer is as inspirational as a glimpse of aspiration and desperation, to two famously Multnomah County Library, Portland, USA heaven itself. romantic and elusive cities of water. Thirty-nine-year-old spinster Sirine works as Mitch Albom is the author of the international Jane Alison is the author of The Love-Artist. She a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, her passions bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie and a nationally lives in Germany aroused only by the preparation of food — until syndicated columnist for the Detroit Free Press. an unbearably handsome Arabic literature He also serves on the boards of numerous Yellow Dog professor starts dropping by for a little home charities and lives with his wife in Michigan, cooking. Falling in love brings Sirine’s whole USA. Martin Amis heart to a boil—stirring up memories of her parents and questions about her identity as an Nominated by Arab-American. Brick Lane Jafet Library- American University of Beirut, Lebanon M.I. Rudomino State Library for Foreign Literature, Monica Ali Moscow, Russia Crescent weaves a multi-dimensional love story Nominated by set in the Arab-American community of Los When ‘dream husband’ Xan Meo is vengefully Angeles. A timely introduction to the richness Biblioteca Demonstrativa de Brasília, Brazil Frederiksberg Kommunes Biblioteker, Denmark assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he of Middle Eastern culture, it is a sensuous Time to Read - NW Libraries' Partnership, suffers head-injury, and personality-change. love story and a gripping tale of risk and Manchester, England Suddenly this family paragon becomes an anti- commitment. Universitäts-und Landesbibliothek Bonn, Germany husband and submits to an alien moral system. Veria Central Public Library, Greece We are introduced to the inverted worlds of Diana Abu-Jaber lives in Portland, Oregon, Cork City Library, Ireland the ‘yellow’ journalist, Clint Smoker; the high Belfast Education and Library Board, Northern USA and teaches at Portland State University. priest of hard men, Joseph Andrews; and the She is the author of one previous novel, Arabian Ireland Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek, Norway porno tycoon, Cora Susan. Jazz. Gemeentebibliotheek Utrecht, The Netherlands Lincoln City Libraries, USA Yellow Dog is a comic masterpiece, darkly in The Clerkenwell Tales tune with the endlessly shifting moral values of Nazneen, born in a hut in Bangladesh, now our troubled planet. It is also concerned with Peter Ackroyd lives in a cramped flat in London’s Tower what is changeless and perhaps unchangeable; Nominated by Hamlets with Chanu, twenty years her patriarchy; the violence arising between man Stedelijke Openbare Bibliotheek Gent, Belgium senior. For years, keeping house and rearing and man and the tortuous alliances between Hoofdstedelijke Openbare Bibliotheek, Brussels, children, she does what is expected of her. men and women. Belgium Yet Nazneen walks a tightrope between her daughter’s embarrassment and her husband’s Martin Amis is the author of nine novels, two The scene is London, 1399 and Richard II is resentments. Into that fragile peace walks collections of stories and six collections of on the throne. Strange signs and portents Karim; he opens her eyes and directs her gaze non-fiction. Koba the Dread, the successor to his are troubling the latter part of his reign. The – but what she sees comes as a surprise to them celebrated memoir, Experience, was published streets of London are rife with rumour, heresy, both. in 2002. espionage and murder at the centre of which is the nun, Sister Clarice, who has disturbing Meanwhile her sister Hasina, back in I’m Not Scared visions of the future. Is she a genuine prophet, Bangladesh, rushes headlong at her life. or the tool of earthly powers? Hasina’s letters from Dhaka recount a world Niccolò Ammaniti This is a story of adventure and suspense of overwhelming adversity. Shaped by their Translated from the Italian by Jonathan Hunt and, as in many of Peter Ackroyd’s novels, the landscapes and memories, both sisters struggle distant medieval past is no longer a foreign Nominated by to dream themselves out of the lives prescribed Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze, Italy country but something alarmingly close and for them. authentic. Monica Ali was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Peter Ackroyd is the author of biographies of and grew up in England. Brick Lane, her first Dickens, Blake and Thomas More and of the novel, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the bestselling London: The Biography. His novel George Orwell Prize for political writing and Hawksmoor won the Whitbread Novel of the the prestigious Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Year. He lives in London and was awarded a Monica Ali lives in London with her husband CBE for services to literature in 2003. and two children. The Five People You Meet in Heaven The Marriage of the Sea Mitch Albom Jane Alison Nominated by Nominated by Consorci de Biblioteques de Barcelona, Spain Free Library of Philadelphia, USA Pikes Peak Library District, Colorado Springs, USA In a damp Venetian palace, Oswaldo Eddie is a grizzled war veteran working at a contemplates the ravages of time to his body seaside amusement park. Once optimistic, his and his beloved city.
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