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Coverage of the Frank O'Connor Award at the Guardian.
2013
Winner: David Constantine's Tea at the Midland and Other Stories
David Constantine's
Click here for coverage by the Guardian (UK)
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The 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award shortlist
Coverage of the Frank O'Connor Award at the Guardian.
Louise Aronson, A History of the Present Illness, Bloomsbury Publishing, American
2012
Winner: Nathan Englander's What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne FrankJudges: James Harpur, Mary Leland & Anne Luttrell.
The 2012 Shortlist
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Dark Lies the Island by Kevin Barry | What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander | The Beautiful Indifference by Sarah Hall |
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Suddenly a Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret | The Trouble with Fire by Fiona Kidman | Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain by Lucia Perillo |
Judges: Alannah Hopkin, Thomas McCarthy, & Chris Power
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Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li | Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeod | Saints and Sinners by Edna O'Brien |
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Death is Not an Option by Suzanne Rivecca | The Empty Family by Colm Tóibín | Marry or Burn by Valerie Trueblood |
The 2011 Longlist
Clark Blaise The Meagre Tarmac Biblioasis USA
Summer Brenner My Life in Clothes Red Hen Press USA
Jo Cannon Insignificant Gestures Pewter Rose Press UK
Uttara Chauhan Blue Blood Penguin India Canada
Michael Christie The Beggar’s Garden HarperCollins Canada Canada
Richard Cumyn The Young in Their Country Enfield and Wizenty Canada
Anthony Doerr Memory Wall Fourth Estate USA review coming soon
Doug Dorst The Surf Guru Riverhead Books USA
Deyan Enev Circus Bulgaria Portobello Bulgaria
Danielle Evans Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self Riverhead Books USA
Stuart Evers Ten Stories about Smoking Picador UK
Edward Falco Burning Man Southern Methodist University Press USA
Siobhan Fallon You Know When the Men Are Gone Amy Einhorn Books USA
Roshi Fernando Homesick Impress UK
Karen Joy Fowler What I Didn’t See Small Beer USA review coming soon
Vanessa Gebbie Storm Warning Salt UK review coming soon
Sue Gee Last Fling Salt UK
Ben Greenman Celebrity Chekhov Harper Perennial USA
Linda LeGarde Grover The Dance Boots University of Georgia Press USA
Tina May Hall The Physics of Imaginary Objects University of Pittsburgh Press USA review coming soon
Alan Heathcock Volt Graywolf USA
Ava Homa Echoes from the Other Land Tsar Canada
Valerie Laken Separate Kingdoms Harper Perennial USA
Yiyun Li Gold Boy, Emerald Girl Random House/ Fourth Estate China
Michael Kardos One Last Good Time Press 53 USA
Gitanjali Kolanad Sleeping with Movie Stars Penguin India India
Sean Mackel The River Guildhall Ireland
Alexander MacLeod Light Lifting Biblioasis Canada
Andre Mangeot True North Salt UK
Javier Marías While the Women are Sleeping Chatto and Windus Spain
Rob Mimpriss For His Warriors Gwasg y Bwthyn UK review coming soon
Mariko Nagai Georgic BkMk Japan
Prem Nath Crowded Rooms Penguin India India
Courttia Newland A Book of Blues Flambard UK review coming soon
Edna O’Brien Saints and Sinners Faber Ireland
Daniel Orozco Orientation Faber USA
Sue Orr Random House New Zealand New Zealand
E.C.Osondu Voice of America Granta Books Nigeria
Kelcey Parker For Sale By Owner Kore USA
Miroslav Penkov East of the West Farrar, Straus & Giroux Bulgaria
Anne Perdue I’m a Registered Nurse Not a Whore Insomniac Canada
Andrew Plattner A Marriage of Convenience BkMk USA
Dawn Promislow Jewels Tsar Canada
Shann Ray American Masculine Graywolf USA
Mary Rechner Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women Propeller USA
Susannah Rickards Hot Kitchen Snow Salt UK
Suzanne Rivecca Death is Not an Option Norton USA
Moya Roddy Other People Wordsonthestreet Ireland
Ethel Rohan Cut Through the Bone Dark Sky Books Ireland
Gretchen Shirm Having Cried Wolf Affirm Australian
L.E. Smith Views Cost Extra Fomite USA
Christine Sneed Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry University of Massachusetts Press USA
Fiona Thackeray The Secret’s in the Folding Pewter Rose Press UK
Rabi Thapa Nothing to Declare Penguin India Nepal
Colm Tóibín The Empty Family Viking Penguin Ireland
Matthew J. Trafford The Divinity Gene Douglas & McIntyre Canada
Jessica Treadway Please Come Back to Me University of Georgia Press USA
Paul Tremblay In the Mean Time ChiZine Publications USA
Valerie Trueblood Marry or Burn Counterpoint USA
Salley Vickers Aphrodite’s Hat Fourth Estate UK review coming soon
Ferdinand Von Schirach Crime Chatto and Windus Germany
Tom Vowler The Method Salt UK
Susi Wyss The Civilized World Holt USA
Judges: Mary Morrissy, Nadine O'Regan, & Diana Reich
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Mattaponi Queen by Belle Boggs | Wild Child by T.C. Boyle |
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This by Robin Black |
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The Shieling by David Constantine | Burning Bright by Ron Rash | What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Laura Van Den Berg |
The 2010 Longlist
(In no particular order)
# |
Author & Nationality |
Title |
Publisher
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1 |
Temsula Ao (India)
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Laburnum |
Penguin
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2 |
Richard Bausch (USA) |
Something is out there: Stories by Richard Bausch
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Alfred A. Knopf |
3 |
Martin Bax (UK) |
Memoirs of a Gone World
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Salt |
4 |
Pinckney Benedict (USA) |
Miracle Boy and Other Stories
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Press 53 |
5 |
Louis de Bernières (UK)
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Notwithstanding
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Harvill Secker |
6 |
Belle Boggs (USA) |
Mattaponi Queen: stories
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Graywolf Press |
7 |
T.C. Boyle (USA)
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Wild Child
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Bloomsbury |
8 |
O Thiam Chin (Singapore)
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Never Been Better
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MPH Publishing
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9 |
Kunzang Choden (Bhutan) |
Tales in Colour and Other Stories
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Zubaan – Penguin |
10 |
Craig Cliff (New Zealand) |
A Man Melting
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Vintage – Random House
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11 |
Venita Coelho (India) |
The Washer of the Dead
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Zubaan – Penguin |
12 |
Nuala Ní Chonchúir (Ireland) |
Nude
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Salt |
13 |
David Constantine (UK) |
The Shieling
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Comma Press |
14 |
Jameson Currier (USA) |
The Haunted Heart and Other Tales
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Lethe Press |
15 |
Brian Joseph Davies (Canada) |
Ronald Reagan, My Father
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ECW Press |
16 |
Deyan Enev (Bulgaria) |
Circus Bulgaria |
Portobello Books
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17 |
Anne Finger (USA) |
Call The Ahab |
University of Nebraska Press
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18 |
Patrick Gale (UK)
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Gentleman’s Relish |
Fourth Estate |
19 |
Angelica Garnett (UK) |
The Unspoken Truth |
Chatto and Windus – Random House
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20 |
Holly Goddard Jones (USA) |
Girl Trouble |
Harper Perennial
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21 |
Perry Glasser (USA)
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Dangerous Places |
BkMk Press
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22 |
Alyson Hagy (USA)
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Ghosts of Wyoming |
Graywolf Press
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23 |
Dhruba Hazarika (India)
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Luck |
Penguin
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24 |
Mark Illis (UK)
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Tender |
Salt
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25 |
Barb Johnson (USA) |
More of This World or Maybe Another |
Harper Perennial
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26 |
Lorraine M. López (USA) |
Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories
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BkMk Press, |
27 |
Thomas Lynch (USA) |
Apparition and Late Fictions: a novella and stories
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Jonathan Cape – Random House
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28 |
Paul Magrs (UK)
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Twelve Stories
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Salt |
29 |
Martin Malone (Ireland) |
The Mango War: and other stories
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New Island |
30 |
Owen Marshall (New Zealand) |
Living as a Moon |
Vintage – Random House
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31 |
Donal McLaughlin (Northern Ireland) |
An Allergic Reaction to National Anthems
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Argyll Publishing |
32 |
Lori Ostlund (USA)
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The Bigness of the world
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University of Georgia Press |
33 |
Manoj Kumar Panda (India) |
The Bone Garden and Other Stories
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Rupantar |
34 |
Wena Poon (Singapore) |
The Proper Care of Foxes
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Ethos Books |
35 |
Dawn Raffel (USA) |
Further Adventures in the Restless Universe
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Dzanc Books |
36 |
Mahmud Rahman (Bangladesh)
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Killing the Water
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Penguin |
37 |
Ron Rash (USA) |
Burning Bright
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Ecco; Harper Collins
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38 |
Peter Robinson (UK) |
The Price Of Love: And Other Stories
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McClelland and Stewart |
39 |
Anne Sanow (USA) |
Triple Time |
Pittsburgh University Press
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40 |
Sarah Selecky (Canada) |
This Cake Is for the Party
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Thomas Allen Publishers |
41 |
Bubul Sharma (India) |
Eating Women, Telling Tales: Stories about Food
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Zubaan - Penguin |
42 |
Robert Shearman (UK)
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Love songs for the shy and cynical
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Big Finish |
43 |
Sam Shepard (USA)
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Day out of Days |
Alfred A. Knopf
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44 |
Anis Shivani (USA) |
Anatolia and Other Stories |
Black Lawrence Press
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45 |
Louise Stern (USA)
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Chattering: Stories |
Granta
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46 |
Kalpana Swaminathan (India)
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Venus Crossing |
Penguin |
47 |
Justin Taylor (USA) |
Everything here is the best thing ever
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Harper Perennial |
48 |
Ruth Thomas (UK)
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Super Girl |
Faber and Faber
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49 |
Laura van den Berg (USA) |
What the world will look like when all the water leaves us
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Dzanc Books |
50 |
David T. K. Wong (China) |
Chinese Stories in Times of Change
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Asian Stories - Muse |
51 |
Tiphanie Yanique (US Virgin Islands)
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How To Escape From A Leper Colony |
Graywolf Press |
52 |
Michele Roberts (UK) |
Mud: Stories of Sex and Love
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Little Brown |
53 |
Helen Simpson (UK) |
In-Flight Entertainment
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Cape |
54 |
Billie Livingston (Canada) |
Greedy Little Eyes |
Random House Canada
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55 | Hassan Blasim (Iraq) | The Madman of Freedom Square
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Comma Press |
56 | David Means (USA) | The Spot | Faber & Faber
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57 | Xiaolu Guo (China) | Lovers in the Age of Indifference
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Chatto & Windus |
58 | Robin Black (USA) | if i loved you, i would tell you this | Picador UK |
Statistics:
Judges: Lloren Foster, Milka Jankowska, & Vincent McDonnell
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An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah | Singularity by Charlotte Grimshaw | Ripples and Other Stories by Shih-Li Kow |
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The Pleasant Light of Day by Philip Ó Ceallaigh | Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower | Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy |
The 2009 Longlist
Here's the breakdown of the longlist, by nationality:
4 Irish Authors:
Michael J. Farrell, Life in the Universe, The Stinging Fly Press
Robert Graham, The Only Living Boy, Salt Publishing
Alan McMonagle, Liar, Liar, Words on the Street
Philip Ó Ceallaigh, The Pleasant Light of Day, Penguin Ireland
15 American Authors:
Eleanor Bluestein, Tea and Other Ayama Na Tales, BkMk Press (University of
Missouri-Kansas City)
Bonnie Jo Cambell, American Salvage,Wayne State University Press
Dennis Cooper, Ugly Man: Storie, Harper Perennial
David Eagleman, Sum, Pantheon Books (Random House)
Mary Gaitskill, Don’t Cry, Pantheon Books (Random House)
Lauren Groff, Delicate Edible Bird, Hyperion
Daniel A. Hoyt, Then We Saw The Flames, University of Massachusetts Press
Ian MacMillan, Our People, BkMk Press (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
James Mathews, Last Known Position, University of North Texas Press
Christopher Meeks, Months and Season, White Whisker Books
Lydia Peelle, Reasons for and Advantage of Breathing, Harper Perennial
Andrew Porter, The Theory of Light and Matter, University of Georgia Press
Glen Pourciau, Invite, University of Iowa Press
Midge Raymond, Forgetting English, Eastern Washington University Press
Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
18 British Authors:
Anthony Cropper, Nature’s Magician, Route
Jane Feaver, Love Me Tender, Harvill Secker (The Random House Group)
Paul Flynn, Crossing the Border, CC Publishing
Tania Hershman, The White Road, Salt Publishing
Sue Hubbard, Rothko’s Red, Salt Publishing
Kazuo Ishiguro, Nocturnes, Faber and Faber Limited
Sushma Joshi, The End of the World, FinePrint Books
Alex Keegan, Ballistics, Salt Publishing
Charles Lambert, The Scent of Cinnamon, Salt Publishing
James Lasdun, It’s Beginning to Hurt, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Tom Lee, Greenfly, Harvill Secker (The Random House Group)
Frederick Lightfoot, Fetish and Other Stories, Superscript
André Mangeot, A Little Javanese, Salt Publishing
Sean O’Brien, The Silence Room, Comma Press
John Saul, As Rivers Flow, Salt Publishing
Ali Smith, The First Person, Penguin Group Canada
Tender, Mark Illis, Salt Publishing
Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter, Harper Perennial
5 Canadian Authors:
Tricia Dower, Silent Girl, Innana Publications and Education Inc.
Hannah Holborn, Fierce, McClelland & Stewart
Pamela Stewart, Elysium, Anvil Press
Deborah Willis, Vanishing and Other Stories, Penguin Group Canada
Kuzhali Manickavel, Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wing, Blaft Publications
1 Dutch Author:
Arnon Grunberg, Amuse-Bouche, Comma Press
1 Estonian Author:
Kristiina Ehin, A Priceless Nest, Oleander Press
1 German Author:
Maike Wetzel (Trans. Lyn Marven), Long Days, Comma Press
1 Icelandic Author:
Gyrơir Elíasson (Trans. Victoria Cribb), Stone Tree, Comma Press
2 Indian Authors:
Jahnavi Barua, Next Door, Penguin Books ( India )
Jasmine Anita Yvette D’Costa, Curry is Thicker Than Water, BookLand Press
1 Macedonian Author:
Kiril Bozhinov, Eclipses: Stories of Disappearances and Reappearance, Beyond Art Productions
1 Malaysian Author:
Shih-Li-Kow, Ripples and Other Short Stories, Silverfish Books
2 New Zealand Authors:
Jeanette Galpin, Aroha and the River, Maungatiro Press of Marton
Charlotte Grimshaw Singularity Vintage
2 Nigerian Authors:
Sefi Atta, Lawless, Farafina Books
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck, Fourth Estate LTD
1 Spanish Author:
Empar Moliner (Trans. Peter Bush), I Love You When I’m Drunk, Comma Press
1 Ukrainian Author:
Sana Krasikov, One More Year, Portobello Books Ltd
1 Zimbabwean Author
Petina Gappah, An Elegy for Easterly, Faber and Faber Limited
Judges: Eileen Battersby, Rosalind Porter & Liam Ronayne.
No shortlist was announced in 2008.
Read Guardian article 'Jhumpa Lahiri jumps the shortlist to the world's richest prize'.
2008 Longlist
IRELAND (5 authors)
BRITAIN (14 authors including 8 authors from Salt Publishing)
AUSTRALIA (4 authors)
NEW ZEALAND (4 authors)
USA (8 authors)
CANADA
SINGAPORE
TAIWAN
NIGERIA
Judges: Segun Afolabi, Rick Moody and Nuala Ní Chonchúir
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Opportunity by Charlotte Grimshaw | No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July | Missing Kissinger by Etgar Keret |
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The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue by Manuel Muñoz | Valentines by Olaf Olafsson | The Separate Heart by Simon Robson |
(Award shared with translators Jay Rubin & Philip Gabriel)
Judges: Claire Keegan, Maurice A. Lee, Toby Litt, Thomas McCarthy, and Silke Scheuermann
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami | Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse by Philip Ó Ceallaigh | The First Hurt by Rachel Sherman |
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In the Strange Gardens by Peter Stamm | The Darkness of Wallis Simpson by Rose Tremain | The Royal Ghosts by Samrat Upadhyay |
2006 Longlist
'In Strange Gardens & Other Stories' by Peter Stamm (Swiss German) translated by Michael Hoffmann.
'The Darkness of Wallis Simpson' by Rose Tremain (UK).
'To The World of Men Welcome' by Nuala Ní ChonChúir (Irish).
'The Good Works of Ayela Linde' by Charlotte Forbes (US)
'The Unfinished Novel & Other Stories' by Valerie Martin (UK)
'I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train' by Peter Hobbs (UK)
'A Life Elsewhere' by Segun Afolabi (Nigerian)
'Notes from A Turkish Whorehouse' by Philip Ó Ceallaigh (Irish)
'Gallatin Canyon' by Thomas McGuane (US)
'Constitutional' by Helen Simpson (UK)
'Joyce's Pupil' by Drago Jancar (Slovenia), translated by Various
'Matters of Life & Death' by Bernard MacLaverty (Irish)
'Is This the Way You Said' by Adam Thorpe (UK)
'The Magician's Beautiful Assistant and Other Stories' by Rachel Wyatt (Canada)
'The First Hurt' by Rachel Sherman (US)
'Drowning in Gruel' by George Singleton (US)
'Year of Fire' by David H Lynn (US)
'Touchy Subjects' by Emma Donoghue (Ireland)
'Twilight of the Superheroes' by Deborah Eisenberg (US)
'Untold Stories' by Alan Bennett (UK)
'No Paradiso' by William Wall (Ireland)
'Kafka in Bronteland and other Stories' by Tamar Yellin (UK)
'Invisible Islands' by Angus Peter Campbell (UK)
'Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman' by Haruki Murakami (Japan), translated by Gabriel & Rubin
'The Young Apollo and Other Stories' by Louis Auchincloss (US)
'The Royal Ghosts' by Samrat Upadhyay (US)
'Between Here and the Yellow Sea' by Nic Pizzolatto (US)
'The Unsettling' by Peter Rock (US)
'Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead' by Alan DeNiro (US)
Judges: Desmond Hogan, James Lasdun, Mary Leland, Val McDermid, and Hansjörg Schertenleib
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Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozig | Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman | Corpus Christi by Bret Anthony Johnston |
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li |
The Secret Goldfish by David Means | The Turning by Tim Winton |
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