The IMPAC (The International Impac Dublin Literary Award) is the world’s richest

English language book prize and the nominees are books of “high literary merit” and are selected from suggestions from libraries around the world.

Here are the ten which were shortlisted this year.

The Detour by Gerbrand Bakker

Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser

Absolution by Patrick Flanery

A Death in the Family: my struggle book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgard
Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye

Traveller of the Century by Andres Neuman (unavailable)

The Light of Amsterdam by David Park

The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan

The Garden of Evening Mists by  Tan Twan Eng

The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Halifax Public Libraries has been nominating our favourites for this prize for many years – sometimes they make the cut and sometimes they don’t. This time we nominated:

Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
People Park by Pasha Malla
NW by Zadie Smith