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2011 Book Awards

  • PEN/Faulkner Award
    • Winner: Deborah Eisenberg's The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
  • Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
    • Winner: Brando Skyhorse: The Madonnas of Echo Park
  • Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Winner: Tomas Tranströmer
  • National Book Award
    • Winner: Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones
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2010 Book Awards

  • National Book Critics Circle Award
    • Winner: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall
  • PEN/Faulkner Award
    • Winner: Sherman Alexie's War Dances
  • Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
    • Winner: Brigid Pasulka's A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
  • Pulitzer Prize
  • Orange Prize
    • Winner: Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna
  • Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Winner: Mario Vargas Llosa
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2009 Book Awards

  • National Book Critics Circle Award
    • Winner: Roberto Bolano's 2666
  • Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
    • Winner: Michael Dahlie's A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living
  • PEN/Faulkner Award
  • Orange Prize
    • Winner: Marilynne Robinson's Home
  • Man Booker Prize
    • Winner: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall
  • Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Winner: Herta Müller
  • National Book Award
    • Winner: Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin

IMPAC Past Winners

2011 – Colum McCann: Let the Great World Spin
2010 – Gerbrand Bakker: The Twin
2009 – Michael Thomas: Man Gone Down
2008 – Rawi Hage: De Niro’s Game
2007 – Per Petterson: Out Stealing Horses
2006 – Colm Tóibín: The Master
2005 – Edward P. Jones: The Known World
2004 – Tahar Ben Jelloun: This Blinding Absence of Light
2003 – Orhan Pamuk: My Name Is Red
2002 – Michel Houellebecq: The Elementary Particles
2001 – Alistair MacLeod: No Great Mischief
2000 – Nicola Barker: Wide Open
1999 – Andrew Miller: Ingenious Pain
1998 – Herta Müller: The Land of Green Plums
1997 – Javier Marias: A Heart So White
1996 – David Malouf: Remembering Babylon

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