You might not be familiar with his work, but that’s okay: the rest of the literary world is. Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng, whose novel The Garden of Evening Mists has already been nominated for a Man Booker Prize, has now been shortlisted for the International Impac Dublin literary award.
Tan will be competing against fellow debut novelists Patrick Flanery and Donal Ryan for one of the world’s richest prizes for literature. The competition for the EUR100,000 (about RM447,744) International Impac Dublin literary award is now down to 10 shortlisted writers, the list of which was announced on Wednesday:
The Detour by Gerbrand Bakker (Dutch), translated by David Colmer
Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser (Sri Lankan / Australian)
Absolution by Patrick Flanery (American)
A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard (Norwegian), translated by Don Bartlett
Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye (French), translated by John Fletcher
Traveller of the Century by Andrés Neuman (Argentinian), translated from the original Spanish by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia
The Light of Amsterdam by David Park (Northern Irish)
The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan (Irish)
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng (Malaysian)
The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Colombian), translated from the original Spanish by Anne McLean
The winner of the prize will be announced on June 12 in Dublin.
Story: The Malay Mail Online
