Impac 2008
April 6, 2008
The shortlist for the Impac awards was announced this week. As usual when I looked at the list there was one title that made me think: oh, yes – I was going to read that wasn’t I? Not so much a book-I-haven’t-read-yet as a book-I’d-forgotten-to-feel-guilty-about-not-having-read-yet:
Winterwood
by Patrick McCabe
And further inspection of my bookshelves reveals that copies of his novels The Butcher Boy and The Dead School also sit there unread.
I definitely did read – and enjoy - Breakfast on Pluto though.
The full shortlist for the 2008 Impac prize is:
Javier Cercas – The Speed of Light
Yasmine Gooneraratne – The Sweet and Simple Kind
Rawi Hage – De Niro’s Game
Gail Jones – Dreams of Speaking
Sayed Kashua – Let It Be Morning
Yasmina Khadra – The Attack
Andrei Makine – The Woman Who Waited
Patrick McCabe – Winterwood
The longlist ran to over a hundred titles and can be seen here.
I daren’t look.
The winner of the €100,000 prize will be announced on June 12th.
