{"id":1652,"date":"2010-04-12T17:12:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T17:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2010-04-12T17:12:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T17:12:22","slug":"impac-prize-worlds-richest-literary-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/12\/impac-prize-worlds-richest-literary-award\/","title":{"rendered":"impac prize.  world&#8217;s richest literary award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shortlist of the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award was announced today.  The 8 titles were selected from a total of 156 novels nominated by 163 public library systems in 123 cities worldwide and includes three British writers and American author Marilynne Robinson.  <\/p>\n<p>   1. The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker  (Dutch) in translation.<br \/>\n   2. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (Moroccan \/ French) in translation.<br \/>\n   3. In Zodiac Light  by Robert Edric  (British)<br \/>\n   4. Settlement  by Christoph Hein  (German) in translation.<br \/>\n   5. The Believers by Zo\u00eb  Heller (British).<br \/>\n   6. Netherland  by Joseph O\u2019Neill  (Irish)<br \/>\n   7. God\u2019s Own Country  by Ross Raisin  (British)<br \/>\n   8. Home  by Marilynne Robinson (American) <\/p>\n<p>The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the largest and most international prize of its kind.  It involves libraries from all corners of the globe, and is open to books written in any language.<\/p>\n<p>The complete list of eligible titles can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.impacdublinaward.ie\/fictionmatters\/Fiction_matters_2010.pdf\"target=_blank>here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shortlist of the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award was announced today. The 8 titles were selected from a total of 156 novels nominated by 163 public library systems in 123 cities worldwide and includes three British writers and American author Marilynne Robinson. 1. The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker (Dutch) in translation. 2. The<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1659,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}