2004 International Dublin Literary Award – Novel Winner
This Blinding Absence of Light
Tahar Ben Jelloun
The award-winning Moroccan-born author of The Sacred Night and Corruption provides a chilling fictional account of the horrific desert concentration camps in which King Hassan II of Morocco held his political enemies and the inhumane conditions in which su…
2004 International Dublin Literary Award – Novel Shortlist
Any Human Heart
William Boyd
Balthasar’s Odyssey (translated from French by Barbara Bray)
Amin Maalouf
Caramelo
Sandra Cisneros
Earth and Ashes (translated from Persian by Erdağ Göknar)
Atiq Rahimi
Family Matters
Rohinton Mistry
House of Day, House of Night (translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
Olga Tokarczuk
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
The Book of Illusions
Paul Auster
