IMPAC Prize

The International IMPAC Dublin literary award is one of the most lucrative of the top literary prizes. It is open to books written in any language, provided there is an English translation available. If the winning book is a translation, the translator receives 25% of the prize, making this a unique award. The Guardian featured this prize recently, and also ran a feature on the ten books on this year's shortlist with links to reviews and interviews for all but the three translations. The prize amounts to 100,000 euros for novels first published in English in 2003. The shortlist includes both men and women authors.