Six Irish books nominated for €100,000 Impac award

SIX Irish books have been nominated for the €100,000 International Impac Dublin Literary Award.

The list of 137 novels also includes this year’s Pulitzer Prize winner, The Road, by Cormac McCarthy and Mr Pip by Lloyd Jones which won the 2007 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.

The annual award, now in its 19th year, is a joint initiative between Dublin City Council and global management consultants, Impac. It is the world’s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English.