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text: International Dublin Literary Award
History -- Winners and shortlists

The International Dublin Literary Award (Irish: Duais Liteartha Idirnáisiúnta Bhaile Átha Chliath) is presented each year for a novel written or translated into English. It promotes excellence in world literature and is solely sponsored by Dublin City Council, Ireland. At €100,000, the award is one of the richest literary prizes in the world. If the winning book is a translation (as it has been nine times), the prize is divided between the writer and the translator, with the writer receiving €75,000 and the translator €25,000. The first award was made in 1996 to David Malouf for his English language novel Remembering Babylon. Nominations are submitted by public libraries worldwide - over 400 library systems in 177 countries worldwide are invited to nominate books each year - from which the shortlist and the eventual winner are selected by an international panel of judges (which changes each year). The most recent winner is Emily Ruskovich who won for her novel Idaho.
Year Winner Language Novel Shortlisted
1996 David Malouf English Remembering Babylon John Banville - Ghosts V. S. Naipaul - A Way in the World Cees Nooteboom - The Following Story Connie Palmen - The Laws José Saramago - The Gospel According to Jesus Christ Jane Urquhart - Away
1997 Javier Marías Spanish A Heart So White ( translated by Margaret Jull Costa ) Sherman Alexie - Reservation Blues Rohinton Mistry - A Fine Balance Dương Thu Hương - Novel Without a Name Antonio Tabucchi - Pereira Maintains Lars Gustafsson - A Tiler 's Afternoon A. J. Verdelle - The Good Negress Alan Warner - Morvern Callar
1998 Herta Müller German The Land of Green Plums ( translated by Michael Hofmann ) Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace André Brink - Imaginings of Sand David Dabydeen - The Counting House David Foster - The Glade Within the Grove Jamaica Kincaid - Autobiography of my Mother Earl Lovelace - Salt Lawrence Norfolk - The Pope 's Rhinoceros Graham Swift - Last Orders Guy Vanderhaeghe - The Englishman 's Boy
1999 Andrew Miller English Ingenious Pain Jim Crace - Quarantine Don DeLillo - Underworld Francisco Goldman - The Ordinary Seaman Ian McEwan - Enduring Love Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Cynthia Ozick - The Puttermesser Papers Bernhard Schlink - The Reader
2000 Nicola Barker English Wide Open Michael Cunningham - The Hours Jackie Kay - Trumpet Colum McCann - This Side of Brightness Alice McDermott - Charming Billy Toni Morrison - Paradise Philip Roth - I Married a Communist
2001 Alistair MacLeod English No Great Mischief Margaret Cezair-Thompson - The True History of Paradise Silvia Molina - The Love You Promised Me Andrew O'Hagan - Our Fathers Victor Pelevin - Buddha 's Little Finger Colm Tóibín - The Blackwater Lightship
2002 Michel Houellebecq French Atomised ( translated by Frank Wynne ) Peter Carey - True History of the Kelly Gang Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin Michael Collins - The Keepers of Truth Helen DeWitt - The Last Samurai Carlos Fuentes - The Years with Laura Diaz Antoni Libera - Madame
2003 Orhan Pamuk Turkish My Name Is Red ( translated by Erdağ Göknar ) Dennis Bock - The Ash Garden Achmat Dangor - Bitter Fruit Per Olov Enquist - The Visit of the Royal Physician Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections Lídia Jorge - The Migrant Painter of Birds John McGahern - That They May Face the Rising Sun Ann Patchett - Bel Canto
2004 Tahar Ben Jelloun French This Blinding Absence of Light ( translated by Linda Coverdale ) Paul Auster - The Book of Illusions William Boyd - Any Human Heart Sandra Cisneros - Caramelo Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex Maggie Gee - The White Family Amin Maalouf - Balthasar 's Odyssey ( translated from French by Barbara Bray ) Rohinton Mistry - Family Matters Atiq Rahimi - Earth and Ashes ( translated from Persian by Erdağ Göknar ) Olga Tokarczuk - House of Day , House of Night ( translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones )
2005 Edward P. Jones English The Known World Diane Awerbuck - Gardening at Night Lars Saabye Christensen - The Half Brother ( translated from Norwegian by Kenneth Steven ) Damon Galgut - The Good Doctor Douglas Glover - Elle Arnon Grunberg - Phantom Pain ( translated from Dutch by Sam Garrett ) Shirley Hazzard - The Great Fire Christoph Hein - Willenbrock ( translated from German by Philip Boehm ) Frances Itani - Deafening Jonathan Lethem - The Fortress of Solitude
2006 Colm Tóibín English The Master Chris Abani - GraceLand Nadeem Aslam - Maps for Lost Lovers Ronan Bennett - Havoc in Its Third Year Jonathan Coe - The Closed Circle Jens Christian Grøndahl - An Altered Light ( translated from Danish by Anne Born ) Vyvyane Loh - Breaking the Tongue Margaret Mazzantini - Do n't Move ( translated from Italian by John Cullen ) Yasmina Khadra - The Swallows of Kabul ( translated from French by John Cullen ) Thomas Wharton - The Logogryph
2007 Per Petterson Norwegian Out Stealing Horses ( translated by Anne Born ) Julian Barnes - Arthur & George Sebastian Barry - A Long Long Way J. M. Coetzee - Slow Man Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Peter Hobbs - The Short Day Dying Cormac McCarthy - No Country for Old Men Salman Rushdie - Shalimar the Clown
2008 Rawi Hage English De Niro 's Game Javier Cercas - The Speed of Light ( translated from Spanish by Anne McLean ) Yasmine Gooneratne - The Sweet & Simple Kind Gail Jones - Dreams of Speaking Sayed Kashua - Let It Be Morning ( translated from Hebrew by Miriam Shlesinger ) Yasmina Khadra - The Attack ( translated from French by John Cullen ) Patrick McCabe - Winterwood Andreï Makine - The Woman Who Waited ( translated from French by Geoffrey Strachan )
2009 Michael Thomas English Man Gone Down Junot Díaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Jean Echenoz - Ravel ( translated from French by Linda Coverdale ) Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist Travis Holland - The Archivist 's Story Roy Jacobsen - The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles ( translated from Norwegian by Don Shaw and Don Bartlett ) David Leavitt - The Indian Clerk Indra Sinha - Animal 's People
2010 Gerbrand Bakker Dutch The Twin ( translated by David Colmer ) Muriel Barbery - The Elegance of the Hedgehog ( translated from French by Alison Anderson ) Robert Edric - In Zodiac Light Christoph Hein - Settlement ( translated from German by Philip Boehm ) Zoë Heller - The Believers Joseph O'Neill - Netherland Ross Raisin - God 's Own Country Marilynne Robinson - Home
2011 Colum McCann English Let the Great World Spin Michael Crummey - Galore Barbara Kingsolver - The Lacuna Yiyun Li - The Vagrants David Malouf - Ransom Joyce Carol Oates - Little Bird of Heaven Craig Silvey - Jasper Jones Colm Tóibín - Brooklyn William Trevor - Love and Summer Evie Wyld - After the Fire , A Still Small Voice
2012 Jon McGregor English Even the Dogs Jon Bauer - Rocks in the Belly David Bergen - The Matter with Morris Jennifer Egan - A Visit from the Goon Squad Aminatta Forna - The Memory of Love Karl Marlantes - Matterhorn Tim Pears - Landed Yishai Sarid - Limassol Cristóvão Tezza - The Eternal Son Willy Vlautin - Lean on Pete
2013 Kevin Barry English City of Bohane Michel Houellebecq - The Map and the Territory Andrew Miller - Pure Haruki Murakami - 1Q84 Julie Otsuka - The Buddha in the Attic Arthur Phillips - The Tragedy of Arthur Karen Russell - Swamplandia ! Sjón - From the Mouth of the Whale Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold - The Faster I Walk , The Smaller I Am Tommy Wieringa - Caesarion ( translated from Dutch by Sam Garrett )
2014 Juan Gabriel Vásquez Spanish The Sound of Things Falling ( translated by Anne McLean ) Gerbrand Bakker - The Detour ( translated from Dutch by David Colmer ) Michelle de Kretser - Questions of Travel Patrick Flanery - Absolution Karl Ove Knausgård - A Death In The Family ( translated from Norwegian by Don Bartlett ) ( My Struggle - First Book ) Marie NDiaye - Three Strong Women ( translated from French by John Fletcher ) Andrés Neuman - Traveller of the Century ( translated from Spanish by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia ) Tan Twan Eng - The Garden of Evening Mists
2015 Jim Crace English Harvest Richard Flanagan - The Narrow Road to the Deep North Hannah Kent - Burial Rites Bernardo Kucinski - K ( translated from Portuguese by Sue Branford ) Andreï Makine - Brief Loves That Live Forever ( translated from French by Geoffrey Strachan ) Colum McCann - TransAtlantic Mahi Binebine - Horses of God ( translated from French by Lulu Norman ) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah Alice McDermott - Someone Roxana Robinson - Sparta