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‘Winterwood’ by Irish author Patrick McCabe is among eight books shortlisted for this year’s International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

‘Winterwood’ is full of raucous humour and savage satire. It taps deep into the old, dark, unseen places below the shiny surface of modern Ireland. It is McCabe’s most disturbing, original and accomplished novel yet.

The list was shortlist from a longlist of 137 novelists from 45 countries writing in 15 languages.

Among the other titles are three works of fiction set in the Middle East, as well as books by Russian, Spanish and Sri Lankan authors.

The IMPAC Award, which was initiated in 1994, managed by Dublin City Libraries and is worth €100,000 .It is the world’s most valuable literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English. Four of the final eight books are published in translation.

Works are nominated by participating libraries and can be written in any language provided it has also been published in English. Some 161 libraries in 121 cities nominated works.

The full shortlist is:
‘The Speed of Light’ - Javier Cercas (Spanish) in translation
‘The Sweet and Simple Kind’ - Yasmine Gooneratne (Sri Lankan)
‘De Niro’s Game’ - Rawi Hage (Lebanese)
‘Dreams of Speaking’ - Gail Jones (Australian)
‘Let it be Morning’ - Sayed Kashua (Israeli)
‘The Attack’ - Yasmina Khadra (Algerian) in translation
‘The Woman who Waited’ - Andrei Makine (Russian) in translation
‘Winterwood’ - Patrick McCabe (Irish)

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