The award is administered by Dublin City Libraries who seek nominations from Public Libraries from major cities across the world.
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: 2006 – 2005 – 2004 – 2003 – 2002 – 2001 – 2001 – 2000 – 1999 – 1998 – 1997 – 1996
- Winner to be announced
:Shortlisted:
- Chris Abani , ''GraceLand''
- Nadeem Aslam , ''Maps For Lost Lovers''
- Ronan Bennett , ''Havoc in Its Third Year''
- Jonathan Coe , ''The Closed Circle''
- Jens Christian Grøndahl , ''An Altered Light'' (translated from the Danish by Anne Born)
- Vyvyane Loh , ''Breaking the Tongue''
- Margaret Mazzantini , ''Don't Move'' (translated from the Italian by John Cullen)
- Yasmina Khadra , '' The Swallows of Kabul'' (translated from the French by John Cullen)
- Colm Tóibín , '' The Master ''
- Thomas Wharton , ''The Logogryph''
- Winner: Tahar Ben Jelloun , ''This Blinding Absence of Light'' (translated from the French by Linda Coverdale)
:Others shortlisted:
- Paul Auster , ''The Book of Illusions''
- William Boyd , ''Any Human Heart''
- Sandra Cisneros , ''Caramelo''
- Jeffrey Eugenides , ''Middlesex''
- Maggie Gee , ''The White Family''
- Amin Maalouf , ''Balthasar's Odyssey'' (translated from the French by Barbara Bray)
- Rohinton Mistry , ''Family Matters''
- Atiq Rahimi , ''Earth and Ashes'' (translated from the Dari by Erdag M. Göknar)
- Olga Tokarczuk , ''House of Day, House of Night'' (translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
- Winner: Herta Müller , ''The Land of Green Plums'' (translated from the German by Michael Hofmann)
:Others shortlisted:
- Winner: Javier Marias , ''A Heart So White''
:Others shortlisted:
- Winner: David Malouf , ''Remembering Babylon''
:Others shortlisted:
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