Book Awards By Year

2001 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerNo Great MischiefAlistair MacLeodIn 1779, driven out of his home, Calum MacDonald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands with his extensive family. After a long, terrible journey he settles his family in 'the land of trees', and eventually they become a separate Nova Scotian clan: red-hair...Amazon2001 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistBuddha's Little FingerVictor PelevinAmazonOur FathersAndrew O'HaganAmazonThe Blackwater LightshipColm TóibínAmazonThe Love You Promised MeSilvia MolinaAmazonThe True History of ParadiseMargaret Cezair-ThompsonAmazon

2000 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerWide OpenNicola BarkerWIDE OPEN is set on the strange Isle Of Sheppey, which pokes out into into the estuary of the River Thames. On this forgotten misty island there is a nudist beach, a nature reserve, a wild boar farm and not much else. The landscape is bare, but the charact...Amazon2000 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistCharming BillyAlice McDermottAmazonI Married a CommunistPhilip RothAmazonParadiseToni MorrisonAmazonThe HoursMichael CunninghamAmazonThis Side of BrightnessColum McCannAmazonTrumpetJackie KayAmazon

1999 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerAndrew MillerIngenious PainThe extraordinary prize-winning debut from Andrew Miller. Winner of the IMPAC Award and James Tait Black Memorial Prize. At the dawn of the Enlightenment, James Dyer is born unable to feel pain. A source of wonder and scientific curiosity as a child, he ri...Amazon1999 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistEnduring LoveIan McEwanAmazonQuarantineJim CraceAmazonThe Ordinary SeamanFrancisco GoldmanAmazonThe Puttermesser PapersCynthia OzickAmazonThe ReaderBernhard SchlinkAmazonThe Wind-Up Bird ChronicleHaruki MurakamiAmazonUnderworldDon DeLilloAmazon

1998 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerThe Land of Green PlumsHerta MüllerIn 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....Amazon1998 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistAlias GraceMargaret AtwoodAmazonAutobiography of my MotherJamaica KincaidAmazonImaginings of SandAndré BrinkAmazonLast OrdersGraham SwiftAmazonSaltEarl LovelaceAmazonThe Counting HouseDavid DabydeenAmazonThe Englishman's BoyGuy VanderhaegheAmazonThe Glade Within the GroveDavid FosterAmazonThe Pope's RhinocerosLawrence NorfolkAmazon

1997 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerA Heart So WhiteJavier MaríasWinner of the IMPAC Dublin Award, and widely considered Javier Marías's masterpiece, A Heart So White is a breathtaking novel about family secrets that chronicles the relentless power of the past. Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; ...Amazon1997 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistA Fine BalanceRohinton MistryAmazonA Tiler's AfternoonLars GustafssonAmazonMorvern CallarAlan WarnerAmazonNovel Without a NameDương Thu HươngAmazonPereira MaintainsAntonio TabucchiAmazonReservation BluesSherman AlexieAmazonThe Good NegressA. J. VerdelleAmazon