Winnipeg debut novels get nod for IMPAC Dublin
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TWO acclaimed Winnipeg debut novels have made the long list for the richest literary prize in the English language.
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson and Reading by Lightning by Joan Thomas are among 12 Canadian titles in the running for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
The long list was released Monday.
Other Canadians on the list are Joan Barfoot for Exit Lines Giller Prize winner Joseph Boyden for Through Black Spruce, Steven Galloway The Cellist of Sarajevo and past IMPAC winner Rawi Hage for Cockroach.
Other books among the 156 novels nominated include The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas, winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize, Home by Marilynne Robinson, winner of the 2009 Orange Prize, and The Armies by Evelio Rosero, winner of the 2009 Independent Prize for Fiction.
The authors on the long list come from 46 countries. Many of the books have been published in translation. The nominations come from 163 libraries in 43 countries.
A short list will be announced April 14 and the winner June 17.
The Gargoyle and Reading by Lightning, both published in 2008, have already won several awards each.
Reading by Lightning, about a teenage girl coming of age on the Canadian Prairies and England during the Depression and the Second World War, is this year’s selection for the Winnipeg Foundation’s On the Same Page literacy promotion.
