FICTION makes it seem easy to explore another life, as the young film-maker Oleg Erdmann attempts to do in Andrei Makine’s latest and characteristically challenging novel. 

The English novelist Jim Crace has won the 20th Impac Dublin Literary Award, for his novel Harvest. The €100,000 prize is the largest for a novel published in English.

As the Impac shortlist is announced, Alan O’Riordan rounds up the candidates for the €100,000 prize, the most lucrative in literature

Five Irish novels have been nominated along with 137 other titles by libraries worldwide for the €100,000 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award.