2005 International Dublin Literary Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

The Known World

Edward P. Jones

From Edward P. Jones comes one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory—winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave…

Deafening

Frances Itani

Elle

Douglas Glover

Gardening at Night

Diane Awerbuck

Phantom Pain (translated from Dutch by Sam Garrett)

Arnon Grunberg

The Fortress of Solitude

Jonathan Lethem

The Good Doctor

Damon Galgut

The Great Fire

Shirley Hazzard

The Half Brother (translated from Norwegian by Kenneth Steven)

Lars Saabye Christensen

Willenbrock (translated from German by Philip Boehm)

Christoph Hein