The award formerly known as the Dublin IMPAC Award (now the International Dublin Literary Award) has announced the finalists, and there's St. Paul's Marlon James, author of "A Brief History of Seven Killings," which also won the Man Booker Prize.
The Dublin Literary Award is sponsored by the Dublin City Council and is managed by the Dublin public libraries. It carries a prize of 100,000 euros, which is about $113,920, and honors a novel written in English or translated into English.
The ten finalists are:
"Outlaws," by Javier Cercas (Spanish), translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
"Academy Street," by Mary Costello (Irish)
"Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?" by Dave Eggers (American)
"The End of Days," by Jenny Erpenbeck (German), translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
"A Brief History of Seven Killings," by Marlon James (Jamaican)
"Diary of the Fall," by Michel Laub (Brazilian), translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
"Our Lady of the Nile," by Scholastique Mukasonga (Rwandan), translated from the French by Melanie Mauthner
"Dept. of Speculation," by Jenny Offill (American)
"Lila," by Marilynne Robinson (American)
"Family Life," by Akhil Sharma (Indian-American)
Titles were nominated by public libraries in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Ireland, Jamaica, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the United States.
The winner will be announced by the lord mayor of Dublin on June 9.
