Book Awards By Year

2006 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerThe MasterColm Tóibín“Colm Tóibín’s beautiful, subtle illumination of Henry James’s inner life” (The New York Times) captures the loneliness and hope of a master of psychological subtlety whose forays into intimacy inevitably fail those he tried to love. Beautiful and profound...Amazon2006 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistAn Altered Light (translated from Danish by Anne Born)Jens Christian GrøndahlAmazonBreaking the TongueVyvyane LohAmazonDon't Move (translated from Italian by John Cullen)Margaret MazzantiniAmazonGraceLandChris AbaniAmazonHavoc in Its Third YearRonan BennettAmazonMaps for Lost LoversNadeem AslamAmazonThe Closed CircleJonathan CoeAmazonThe LogogryphThomas WhartonAmazonThe Swallows of Kabul (translate...

2005 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerThe Known WorldEdward P. JonesFrom 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...Amazon2005 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistDeafeningFrances ItaniAmazonElleDouglas GloverAmazonGardening at NightDiane AwerbuckAmazonPhantom Pain (translated from Dutch by Sam Garrett)Arnon GrunbergAmazonThe Fortress of SolitudeJonathan LethemAmazonThe Good DoctorDamon GalgutAmazonThe Great FireShirley HazzardAmazonThe Half Brother (translated from Norwegian by Kenneth Steven)Lars Saabye ChristensenAmazonWillenbrock (translated fro...

2004 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerThis Blinding Absence of LightTahar Ben JellounThe award-winning Moroccan-born author of The Sacred Night and Corruption provides a chilling fictional account of the horrific desert concentration camps in which King Hassan II of Morocco held his political enemies and the inhumane conditions in which su...Amazon2004 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistAny Human HeartWilliam BoydAmazonBalthasar's Odyssey (translated from French by Barbara Bray)Amin MaaloufAmazonCarameloSandra CisnerosAmazonEarth and Ashes (translated from Persian by Erdağ Göknar)Atiq RahimiAmazonFamily MattersRohinton MistryAmazonHouse of Day, House of Night (translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)Olga TokarczukAmazonMiddlesexJeffrey EugenidesAmaz...

2003 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerMy Name Is RedOrhan PamukThe Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and the Ottoman Empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day - in the European manner. In Istanbul at a time of violent fundamentalism, however, this is a dangerous proposi...Amazon2003 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistBel CantoAnn PatchettAmazonBitter FruitAchmat DangorAmazonThat They May Face the Rising SunJohn McGahernAmazonThe Ash GardenDennis BockAmazonThe CorrectionsJonathan FranzenAmazonThe Migrant Painter of BirdsLídia JorgeAmazonThe Visit of the Royal PhysicianPer Olov EnquistAmazon

2002 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerAtomisedMichel Houellebecq...Amazon2002 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistMadameAntoni LiberaAmazonThe Blind AssassinMargaret AtwoodAmazonThe Keepers of TruthMichael CollinsAmazonThe Last SamuraiHelen DeWittAmazonThe Years with Laura DiazCarlos FuentesAmazonTrue History of the Kelly GangPeter CareyAmazon