Impac Award News Today

Vlautin's appearance at The Sugar Club will feature a reading, Q+A and solo performance of songs inspired by writing his latest novel. Tickets are on sale no...

One of Ireland’s most acclaimed and prolific authors shares with Ben Haugh some of the most important things he has learned and observed about the art of reading and writing

℘℘℘ My Name Is Red. Worth 100,000 euros, the IMPAC award is considered the most generous literary prize in the world. The winning book, by the Turkish writer and author of six novels which have been translated into more than 20 languages, is described as “a thickly-plotted murder mystery and love story set in 16th century Istanbul and concerned with the fate of Islamic artists.” Pamuk beat out weighty competition from John McGahern’s That They May Face This Rising Sun, Jonathan Fra...

President Mary McAleese presents to Michael Houllebecq. By Irish America Staff The winner of the annual International IMPAC Dublin literary award was announced on May 13 in Dublin as Michel Houellebecq for his novel  Atomised. In this sixth year since the award’s inception, nominees included well–known authors and Booker Prize winners, Margaret Atwood for  The Blind Assassin, Peter Carey for  The True History o the Kelly Gang, and Irish writer Michael Collins for  The Keepers of Truth...