The award is administered by Dublin City Public Libraries who seek nominations from public libraries from major cities across the world.

2008

• Winner: Rawi Hage, De Niro's Game

Others shortlisted:

* Javier Cercas, The Speed of Light (translated from Spanish by Anne McLean)

* Yasmine Gooneratne, The Sweet & Simple Kind

* Gail Jones, Dreams of Speaking

* Sayed Kashua, Let It Be Morning (translated from Hebrew by Miriam Shlesinger)

* Yasmina Khadra, The Attack (translated from French by John Cullen)

* Patrick McCabe, Winterwood

* Andrei Makine, The Woman Who Waited (translated from French by Geoffrey Strachan)

2007

• Winner: Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses (translated from Norwegian by Anne Born)

Others shortlisted:

* Julian Barnes, Arthur & George

* Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way

* J.M. Coetzee, Slow Man

* Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

* Peter Hobbs, The Short Day Dying

* Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

* Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown

2006

• Winner: Colm Tóibín, The Master

Others shortlisted:

* Chris Abani, GraceLand

* Nadeem Aslam, Maps for Lost Lovers

* Ronan Bennett, Havoc in Its Third Year

* Jonathan Coe, The Closed Circle

* Jens Christian Grøndahl, An Altered Light (translated from Danish by Anne Born)

* Vyvyane Loh, Breaking the Tongue

* Margaret Mazzantini, Don't Move (translated from Italian by John Cullen)

* Yasmina Khadra, The Swallows of Kabul (translated from French by John Cullen)

* Thomas Wharton, The Logogryph

2005

• Winner: Edward P. Jones, The Known World

Others shortlisted:

* Diane Awerbuck, Gardening at Night

* Lars Saabye Christensen, The Half Brother (translated from Norwegian by Kenneth Steven)

* Damon Galgut, The Good Doctor

* Douglas Glover, Elle

* Arnon Grunberg, Phantom Pain (translated from Dutch by Sam Garrett)

* Shirley Hazzard, The Great Fire

* Christoph Hein, Willenbrock (translated from German by Philip Boehm)

* Frances Itani, Deafening

* Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude

2004

• Winner: Tahar Ben Jelloun, This Blinding Absence of Light (translated from French by Linda Coverdale)

Others shortlisted:

*Paul Auster, The Book of Illusions

*William Boyd, Any Human Heart

*Sandra Cisneros, Caramelo

*Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

*Maggie Gee, The White Family

*Amin Maalouf, Balthasar's Odyssey (translated from French by Barbara Bray)

*Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

*Atiq Rahimi, Earth and Ashes (translated from the Dari by Erdağ M. Göknar)

*Olga Tokarczuk, House of Day, House of Night (translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)

2003

• Winner: Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red (Translated from Turkish by Erdağ M. Göknar)

Others shortlisted:

*Dennis Bock, The Ash Garden

*Achmat Dangor, Bitter Fruit

*Per Olov Enquist, The Royal Physician's Visit

*Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

*Lidia Jorge, The Migrant Painter of Birds

*John McGahern, That They May Face the Rising Sun

*Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

2002

• Winner: Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles (a/k/a Atomised) (translated from French by Frank Wynne)

Others shortlisted:

*Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang

*Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

*Michael Collins, The Keepers of Truth

*Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai

*Carlos Fuentes, The Years with Laura Diaz

*Antoni Libera, Madame

2001

• Winner: Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief

Others shortlisted:

*Margaret Cezair-Thompson, The True History of Paradise

*Silvia Molina, The Love You Promised Me

*Andrew O'Hagan, Our Fathers

*Victor Pelevin, Buddha's Little Finger

*Colm Tóibín, The Blackwater Lightship

2000

• Winner: Nicola Barker, Wide Open

Others shortlisted:

*Michael Cunningham, The Hours

*Jackie Kay, Trumpet

*Colum McCann, This Side of Brightness

*Alice McDermott, Charming Billy

*Toni Morrison, Paradise

*Philip Roth, I Married a Communist

1999

• Winner: Andrew Miller, Ingenious Pain

Others shortlisted:

*Jim Crace, Quarantine

*Don DeLillo, Underworld

*Francisco Goldman, The Ordinary Seaman

*Ian McEwan, Enduring Love

*Haruki Murakami, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

*Cynthia Ozick, The Puttermesser Papers

*Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

1998

• Winner: Herta Müller, The Land of Green Plums (translated from German by Michael Hofmann)

Others shortlisted:

*Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

*Andre Brink, Imaginings of Sand

*David Dabydeen, The Counting House

*David Foster, The Glade within the Grove

*Jamaica Kincaid, Autobiography of my Mother

*Earl Lovelace, Salt

*Lawrence Norfolk, The Pope's Rhinoceros

*Graham Swift, Last Orders

*Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy

1997

• Winner: Javier Marias, A Heart So White

Others shortlisted:

*Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues

*Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

*Duong Thu, Novel Without A Name

*Antonio Tabucchi, Pereira Declares

*Lars Gustafsson, A Tiler's Afternoon

*A. J. Verdelle, The Good Negress

*Alan Warner, Morvern Callar

1996

• Winner: David Malouf, Remembering Babylon

Others shortlisted:

*John Banville, Ghosts

*V. S. Naipaul, A Way In The World

*Cees Nooteboom, The Following Story

*Connie Palmen, The Laws

*José Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

*Jane Urquhart, Away

External links

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