{"id":3629,"date":"2010-04-12T10:17:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T14:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=3629"},"modified":"2016-06-09T15:12:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T19:12:04","slug":"international-impac-dublin-literary-award-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/04\/12\/international-impac-dublin-literary-award-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From that incredibly long longlist the IMPAC has announced the shortlist of eight titles.\u00a0The winner will be announced on June 17.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zoe Heller: <strong><em>The Believers<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Muriel Barbery: <strong><em>The Elegance of the Hedgehog<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ross Raisin: <strong><em>God&#8217;s Own Country<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Marilynne Robinson: <strong><em>Home<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Robert Edric: <strong><em>In Zodiac Light<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Joseph O&#8217;Neill: <strong><em>Netherland<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Christoph Hein: <strong><em>Settlement<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Gerbrand Bakker: <strong><em>The Twin<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only read two (better than last year): <em><a title=\"Mookse Review of Netherland\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2008\/07\/22\/joseph-oneills-netherland\/\" target=\"_self\">Netherland<\/a> <\/em>and <em><a title=\"Mookse Review of The Twin\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/03\/02\/gerbrand-bakker-the-twin\/\" target=\"_self\">The Twin<\/a><\/em>. Both are excellent books. Long-time readers will remember how much I rooted for <em>Netherland <\/em>to win more 2008 literary awards.\u00a0I have <em>The Elegance of the Hedgehog<\/em> and <em>Home<\/em> sitting on the shelf, always just about to be read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award shortlist has been announced. <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/04\/12\/international-impac-dublin-literary-award-shortlist\/\"><u>Read the full post<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[798],"tags":[],"coauthors":[505],"class_list":["post-3629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMPAC-Logo.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-Wx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3629"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18555,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions\/18555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3629"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}