1998 International Dublin Literary Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

The Land of Green Plums

Herta Müller

In Romania at the height of Ceausescu’s reign, a group of young people move to the city in search of better prospects, but they must face betrayal and suicide, and the choice to bend to the oppressors or resist and die….

Alias Grace

Margaret Atwood

Autobiography of my Mother

Jamaica Kincaid

Imaginings of Sand

André Brink

Last Orders

Graham Swift

Salt

Earl Lovelace

The Counting House

David Dabydeen

The Englishman’s Boy

Guy Vanderhaeghe

The Glade Within the Grove

David Foster

The Pope’s Rhinoceros

Lawrence Norfolk