Atkinson, Filer and Rowling on IMPAC award longlist

Kate Atkinson, Nathan Filer and J K Rowling are among the 19 British authors competing for the €100,000 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The longlist for the prize, now in its 20th year and given annually for a novel written in English or translated into English, features titles nominated by 39 libraries worldwide. This year’s longlist of 142 books includes 19 by British authors, 37 American, nine Canadian, nine Australian and seven Italian authors. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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