The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the largest (100,000 Euros) and most international prize of its kind.  Books are nominated by libraries from all corners of the globe, and the competition is open to books written in any language.  For more information about the award, click here.

2010
The twin by Gerbrand Bakker ; translated from the original Dutch by David Colmer (click here for more information about the book and the author)
The elegance of the hedgehog by Muriel Barbery ; translated from the original French by Alison Anderson
In zodiac light by Robert Edric
Settlement : a novel by Christoph Hein ; translated from the original German by Philip Boehm
The believers by Zoë Heller
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
God's own country by Ross Raisin
Home by Marilynne Robinson

2009
Man gone down by Michael Thomas (click here for more information about the book and the author)
The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Ravel : a novel by Jean Echenoz
The reluctant fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The archivist's story by Travis Holland
The burnt-out town of miracles by Roy Jacobsen
The Indian clerk : a novel by David Leavitt
Animal's people by Indra Sinha

2008
DeNiro's game by Rawi Hage (click here for more information about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
The speed of light by Javier Cercas
The sweet and simple kind by Yasmine Gooneratne
Dreams of speaking by Gail Jones
Let it be morning by Sayed Kashua
The attack by Yasmina Khadra
The woman who waited by Andrei Makine
Winterwood by Patrick McCabe

2007
Out stealing horses by Per Petterson ; translated from Norwegian by Anne Born (click here for more information about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
A long long way by Sebastian Barry
Slow man by J. M. Coetzee
Extremely loud & incredibly close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The short day dying by Peter Hobbs
No country for old men by Cormac McCarthy
Shalimar the clown : a novel by Salman Rushdie

2006
The master by Colm Tóibín (click here for more information about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
Graceland by Chris Abani
Maps for lost lovers by Nadeem Aslam
Havoc, in its third year : a novel by Ronan Bennett
The closed circle by Jonathan Coe
An altered light by Jens Christian Grøndahl (translated from the Danish by Anne Born)
The swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra (translated from the French by John Cullen)
Breaking the tongue : a novel by Vyvyane Loh
Don’t move by Margaret Mazzantini (translated from the Italian by John Cullen)
The logogryph by Thomas Wharton

2005
The known world by Edward P. Jones (click here for more information about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
Gardening at night by Diane Awerbuck
The half brother by Lars Saabye Christensen
The good doctor by Damon Galgut
Elle by Douglas Glover
Phantom pain by Arnon Grunberg (translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett)
The great fire by Shirley Hazzard
Willenbrock : a novel by Christoph Hein (translated from the German by Philip Boehm)
Deafening by Frances Itani
The fortress of solitude : a novel by Jonathan Lethem

2004
This blinding absence of light by Tahar Ben Jelloun (translated from the French by Linda Coverdale) (click here for more information about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
The book of illusions : a novel by Paul Auster
Any human heart : a novel by William Boyd
Caramelo : or puro cuento : a novel by Sandra Cisneros
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The White family by Maggie Gee
Balthasar's odyssey : a novel by Amin Maalouf (translated from the French by Barbara Bray)
Family matters by Rohinton Mistry
Earth and ashes by Atiq Rahimi (translated from the Dari by Erdag M.Göknar)
House of day, house of night by Olga Tokarczuk (translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)

2003
My name is Red by Orhan Pamuk (translated from the Turkish by Erdag M Göknar) (click here for more information about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
The ash garden : a novel by Dennis Bock
Bitter fruit by Achmat Dangor
The royal physician's visit by Per Olov Enquist (translated from the Swedish by Tiina Nunnelly)
The corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The painter of birds by Lidia Jorge (translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa)
That they may face the rising sun by John McGahern
Bel canto : a novel by Ann Patchett

2002
Atomised (or The elementary particles) by Michel Houellebecq (translated from the French by Frank Wynne) (click here for more information about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
The blind assassin by Margaret Atwood
True history of the Kelly gang by Peter Carey
The keepers of truth : a novel by Michael Collins
The Last samurai by Helen DeWitt
The years with Laura Díaz by Carlos Fuentes
Madame by Antoni Libera (translated from the Polish by Agnieszka Kolakowska)

2001
No great mischief by Alastair MacLeod (click here for more information about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
The true history of paradise : a novel by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
The love you promised me : a novel by Silvia Molina (translated from the Spanish by David Unger)
Our fathers by Andrew O'Hagan
The clay machine-gun by Viktor Pelevin (tranlslated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield)
The Blackwater lightship by Colm Tóibín

2000
Wide open by Nicola Barker (click here for more information about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
The hours by Michael Cunningham
Trumpet by Jackie Kay
This side of brightness : a novel by Colum McCann
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
Paradise by Toni Morrison
I married a communist by Philip Roth

1999
Ingenious pain : a novel by Andrew Miller (click here for more information about the book and the author
Shortlist:
Quarantine by Jim Crace
Underworld by Don DeLillo
The ordinary seaman by Francisco Goldman
Enduring love : a novel by Ian McEwan
The wind-up bird chronicle by Haruki Murakami (Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin)
The Puttermesser papers by Cynthia Ozick
The reader by Bernard Schlink (Translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway)

1998
The land of green plums : a novel by Herta Müller (translated from the German by Michael Hofmann) (click here for more information about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Imaginings of sand by Andre Brink
The counting house by David Dabydeen
The glade within the grove by David Foster
Autobiography of my mother by Jamaica Kincaid
Salt by Earl Lovelace
The Pope's rhinoceros : a novel by Lawrence Norfolk
Last orders by Graham Swift
The Englishman's boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe

1997
A heart so white by Javier Marías (translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa) (click here for more information about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
Reservation blues by Sherman Alexie
Novel without a name by Duong Thu Huong (translated from the Vietnamese by Phan Huy Duong and Nina McPherson)
A tiler's afternoon by Lars Gustaffson
A fine balance : a novel by Rohinton Mistry
Pereira declares : a testimony by Antonio Tabucchi (translated from the Portuguese by Patrick Creagh)
The good Negress by A.J. Verdelle
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner

1996
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf (click here for more information about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
Ghosts by John Banville
A way in the world : a novel by V.S Naipaul
The following story by Cees Noteboom (translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke)
The laws by Connie Palmen (translated from the Dutch by Richard Huijing)
The Gospel according to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago (translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero
Away by Jane Urquhart