Our Dublin Nominee made the Shortlist

I received a letter this morning from the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Board of Management informing me that Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, which was nominated by the NH State Library for the 2007 Dublin Award, has been Shortlisted for the 2007 Award. The New Hampshire State Library has been a nominating library since 1999 and this is the first time one of our nominees has made the shortlist. A Center for the Book committee, chaired by Alice Nye, selects our Dublin nominees each year.

The largest and most international prize of its kind, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, is presented to a novel of high literary merit written in, or translated into, English and published within a specified period of time. The 2007 award is for books first published in English during 2005 or first published in another language between 2000 and 2005 with the English translation first published in 2005. The award is a joint initiative of the Dublin (Ireland) City Council, the Municipal Government of Dublin City, and the productivity improvement company IMPAC. The 2007 winner will be announced June 14, 2007.