Jim Crace’s Harvest is the winner of this year’s International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award.
Crace has bagged the coveted award which is organised by Dublin City Council and receives nominations from public libraries in cities all over the world.
Harvest is set in a green corner of England. It is a story about the last days of a village and the death of a way of life.
Speaking about the significance of the prize, Jim Crace said: “It has been an overwhelming surprise and a delight to discover that my latest book has won the IMPAC DUBLIN award. Harvest proved to be a generous novel in the writing. Readers and critics were more than generous in their responses.
“And now, thanks to the further generosity of a whole wide-world network of book-loving strangers, Harvest has struck lucky again – it will be included in the distinguished and twenty-year-long list of fiction honoured by this truly international and discriminating award. No writer could hope for more than that.”
His other works include Continent (winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize), Quarantine (winner of the 1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and Being Dead (winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award).
