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Bookninja  11-23-2005
10:32 AM ET (US)
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IMPAC coverage
With eleven Canajun books on the list, them odds is looking good. I mean, that's, like, what? 5% of the longlist? Ooh, sorry: the Loooooooonglist. I say Toews or Hollinsghead to make the cut, if any. But just one.
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Twinkle Twinkle 11-23-2005
10:23 AM ET (US)
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No go.
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michel
11-23-2005
09:42 AM ET (US)
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doesn't work for me, either.
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Bookninja 11-22-2005
01:20 PM ET (US)
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Try again; it works fine for me. Hmm.
It's:
http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/2006/longlist.htm
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Twinkle Twinkle 11-22-2005
12:15 PM ET (US)
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The link doesn't work for me.
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Bookninja 11-22-2005
11:17 AM ET (US)
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IMPAC longlist announcedGo Toews, go. HomeEdited 11-22-2005 11:18 AM
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Bookninja 06-17-2005
10:00 AM ET (US)
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Edward P. Jones winsIMPAC award winner, The Known World, the story of a black slave owner, is a nuanced, fascinating portrait of a much suppressed historical reality. This book has been winning all sorts of accolades, not the least of which is the Pulitzer. And to boot, Edward P. Jones appears to be the real thing. HomeEdited 06-17-2005 10:01 AM
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Twinkle Twinkle 03-09-2005
12:06 PM ET (US)
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Gelled!
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Bookninja 03-08-2005
11:12 PM ET (US)
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Two Canucks on IMPAC list
Canadians have been doing quite well on the IMPAC shortlist for some time. (Remember Dennis Bock with The Ash Garden?) Now two new shortlistees: Douglas Glover for Elle and Francis Itani for Deanfening. Not making the cut from the longlist are: Atwood's Oryx and Crake, David Adams Richards's River of the Brokenhearted, Ann-Marie MacDonald's The Way the Crow Flies, and M.G. Vassanji's The In-Between World of Vikram Lall. All good books that could have made it, one would think, had all the variables of decision-making gelled in a slightly different manner. It's no crop to be ashamed of, anyway. It seems highly unlikely either of our hometown heroes will prevail though, against the likes of Edward P. Jones and Damon Galgut.
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Bookninja 11-29-2004
11:50 PM ET (US)
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A word from the unwashed
Over at TEV, IMPAC longlistee Dexter Petley gives some perspective on why the looooooong list is important.
I share the derision at the IMPAC longlist, but let me add the missing perspective. I'm one of the writers on this 2005 longlist and i'm trying to come to terms with a kind of gratitude while retaining my long held disgust at the domination of literary prizes in contemporary fiction. I'm a mid-list author of lit fiction with very low sales and zero publicity. There are thousands like me and we're the rank outsiders for prizes we never usually get entered for. Our publishers dont give a toss about us, we're just in the catalogue as token quality, something to remainder next year. We're like child labour sewing footballs together. Fair trade has yet to enter publishing. We're unpromoted, therefore unreviewed, thus unsold, unread. Publishers are the only multi-national conglomerates who don't promote the bulk of their products. My books don't even get into bookshops.
Quite a brave set of words here.
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paul vermeersch 11-16-2004
07:22 PM ET (US)
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"How will the jurors ever be able to afford to read the Code when it's not out in paperback yet?"
Actually, it is out in trade paperback in the UK market. It has been for a while. The trade pb release in North America has apparently been delayed by moutains and mountains of money.
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Bookninja 11-15-2004
11:17 PM ET (US)
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Realistically, does DBC head anything but a top ten list of people who look oily even in a tuxedo?
The IMPAC shortlist has been announced and virtually every book known to mankind is on it. I think Heart of Darkness and 20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea are on there somewhere too. This of course, doesn't diminish the accomplishments of those who will eventually make the shortlist, but it does mean there'll be more chaff than wheat this year. 150 books. Whew. I guess it's very nice to spread around a bit of the publicity, but putting Peggy (Where's my Nobel) Atwood, Coetzee, Auster, Coelho, Haddon, and even DBC up against Dan Brown's Da Da Vinci Code is just not fair. How will the jurors ever be able to afford to read the Code when it's not out in paperback yet? I can't. (Sadly, for an Irish award, only 2.04% of the nominees are actually Irish.)
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Bookninja 06-17-2004
10:01 PM ET (US)
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IMPAC Awarded
This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun takes the IMPAC.
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Bookninja 03-23-2004
10:13 PM ET (US)
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Mistry Up for IMPAC
Rohinton shortlisted for prestigious loot-fest. Go Rohi! Go Rohi! Go! Go! Go Rohi! (Nice to see Cisneros on there.)
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The Fat Kid 11-20-2003
12:43 PM ET (US)
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Exactly.
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