{"id":5667,"date":"2011-04-12T12:34:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T16:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=5667"},"modified":"2016-06-29T18:16:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T22:16:45","slug":"2011-impac-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2011\/04\/12\/2011-impac-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 IMPAC Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And in more prize news, the 2011 IMPAC Dublin Award shortlist has been announced. I&#8217;ve read two (the ones with links below).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em><a title=\"Mookse Review of Galore\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2009\/09\/23\/michael-crummey-galore\/\">Galore<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, by Michael Crummey<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Lacuna<\/em><\/strong>, by Barbara Kingsolver<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Vagrants<\/em><\/strong>, by Yiyun Li<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Ransom<\/em><\/strong>, by David Malouf<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Let the Great World Spin<\/em><\/strong>, by Colum McCann<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Little Bird of Heaven<\/em><\/strong>, by Joyce Carol Oates<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Jasper Jones<\/em><\/strong>, by Craig Silvey<\/li>\n<li><strong><em><a title=\"Mookse Review of Brooklyn\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2009\/08\/06\/colm-toibins-brooklyn\/\">Brooklyn<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, by Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Love and Summer<\/em><\/strong>, by William Trevor<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>After the Fire, a Still, Small Voice<\/em><\/strong>, by Evie Wyld<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the first time since I started following the prize, there are no books in translation, which is a shame. Also noteworthy is the inclusion of three Irish writers and three Australian writers. However, I&#8217;m all for their inclusion. For fun, Malouf won the award in 1996 for <em>Remembering Babylon<\/em> and T\u00f3ib\u00edn won in 2006 for <em>The Master<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Of the two I&#8217;ve read, I greatly preferred <em>Brooklyn<\/em>. I have and am looking forward to <em>Love and Summer<\/em>, and I have but am not particularly looking forward to <em>Let the Great World Spin<\/em>. I&#8217;m not particularly interested in <em>The Lacuna<\/em>, though I do like some of Kingsolver&#8217;s other work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The finalists for the IMPAC prize have been announced. <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2011\/04\/12\/2011-impac-finalists\/\"><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-5667","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-1tp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667","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=5667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18997,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions\/18997"}],"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=5667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5667"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}