The International Dublin Literary Award, formerly known as the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, is given annually for a novel published in English or that has been translated into English (Irish: Duais Liteartha Idirnáisinta Bhaile tha Chliath). It is sponsored primarily by Dublin City Council in Ireland and encourages the best in international literature.
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The International Dublin Literary Award prize is one of the most expensive literary awards in the world, at €100,000. The Literary Award Prize is split between the author and the translator if the winning book is a translation (as it has been nine times), with the author receiving €75,000 and the translator €25,000.
How Dublin Literary Award was Started - History
The American productivity corporation IMPAC, which had its European headquarters in Dublin, and Dublin City Council jointly created the award in 1994 as the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. IMPAC’s president James Irwin set the prize money at €100,000.
To pay for the award and its upkeep, a trust fund was created. Since the beginning, Dublin City Public Libraries have been in charge of administering the prize.
After the passing of its president and founder James Irwin in 2009, IMPAC ceased operations in the late 2000s. The trust fund ran out of money in late 2013, leaving no money to administer the award. The council consented to intervene and continue supporting the award using the name of the now-defunct company while seeking new sponser.
The council reportedly paid €100,000 for the award plus €80,250 in administrative expenses in 2015. In November 2015, the prize’s name was changed to the International DUBLIN Literary Award.
The journalist Michelle Pauli asked, in reference to the longlist for the 2004 edition, “Where would you find Michael Dobbs and Tony Parsons up against Umberto Eco and Milan Kundera for a €100,000 prize?” She described the award as “the most eclectic and unpredictable of the literary world’s annual gongs.”
Nomination Process for Dublin Literary Award.
The International Dublin Literary Award Prize is accessible to books written in any language by authors from any nation, as long as the English original or an English translation of the book has been released. Two years after the date of publication, the award will be given out. The work had to be released in 2015 in order to be eligible for an award in 2017.
The work must have been published in its original language between two and six years prior to its translation if it is an English translation. The Irish Times journalist Eileen Battersby writes that “several of the titles are already well known even at the time of the release of the long list,” which is why the inclusion criteria have come under fire.
400 public libraries in significant cities throughout the world are invited to submit nominations to Dublin City Public Libraries.
Libraries can submit an application to be included in the nomination process. The shortlist (up to 10 titles) is revealed in March or April of each year, while the longlist is revealed in October or November of each year. A rotating worldwide group of judges selects the longlist and shortlist each year. From 1996 through 2003, Allen Weinstein served as the panel’s non-voting chair. Eugene R. Sullivan, a former Chief Judge of a US Court of Appeals, is the non-voting chair as of 2017.
Each June, the award’s recipient is revealed.
International Dublin Literary Award Winner 2022
In 2022, Alice Zeniter won the prize for her book The Art of Losing (translated by Frank Wynne). French novelist, translator, screenwriter, dramatist, and filmmaker Alice Zeniter was born in 1986. At the age of 16, Zeniter released her first book, Deux moins un égal zéro. In 2010, her second book, Jusque dans nos bras, was released. Take This Man is the English translation.
Alice Zeniter International Dublin Literary Award Winner 2022
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