Americans Dominate International IMPAC Award Shortlist
Half the eight finalists for the International IMPAC Literary Award ($132,200) are Americans. The list, announced this morning in Dublin, includes:
- Junot Diaz (Dominican/US) "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," which has already won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Critics Circle award.
- David Leavitt (US), "The Indian Clerk"
- Michael Thomas (US), "Man Gone Down"
- Mohsin Hamid (Pakistan/UK), "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"
- Jean Echenoz (France), "Ravel"
- Travis Holland (US), "The Archivist's Story"
- Roy Jacobsen (Norway) "The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles"
- Indra Sinha (India/UK), "Animal's People"
By Ron Charles |
April 2, 2009; 10:50 AM ET
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Posted by: cebeling | April 2, 2009 3:19 PM
Not obvious at all. So far as I can tell, it's one of those made-up corporate names. See their rather opaque Web site here: http://www.impac-systems.com/
Posted by: ronchar | April 2, 2009 7:12 PM
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I have a question, and I apologize in advance if the answer is obvious or inconsequential -- I am asking in a glazed daze after a day in the cubicle--but what does IMPAC stand for? I assume it is an acronym, but its website does not spell it out.