Short-list of 10 writers announced for literary award

A SHORTLIST of 10 books for the 2004 IMPAC Literary Award was announced in Dublin yesterday.

The list represents what is probably the most diverse group of finalists in the history of the award, now in its ninth year.

Three US writers were nominated as well as one from Britain. Morocco, Lebanon, Ghana and Afghanistan are also represented along with India and Poland. No Irish writer was nominated for the award which, at €100,000 is the world’s largest literary prize for a single work of fiction.