Kingsolver on shortlist for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Publication Date: Tue, 12/04/2011 - 10:36 Barbara Kingsolver's Orange Prize-winning The Lacuna (Faber) has been shortlisted for the €100,000 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The 10-strong list, announced this morning (12th April), also includes three from Irish authors, Brooklyn by Colm Toibin, Love and Summer by William Trevor (both Viking) and Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (Bloomsbury). read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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