2012 Longlist

Steve Almond, USA, God Bless America, Lookout Books
A. J. Ashworth, UK, Somewhere Else, or Even Here, Salt Publishing
Diane Awerbuck, South Africa, Cabin Fever, Umuzi
Kevin Barry, Ireland, Dark Lies the Island, Jonathan Cape
Lou Beach, USA, 420 Characters, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Frank Bill, USA, Crimes in Southern Indiana, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Will Boast, USA, Power Ballads, University of Iowa Press
Greg Bottoms, USA, Swallowing the Past, Texas Review Press
Laura Boudreau, Canada, Suitable Precautions, Biblioasis
Shannon Cain, USA, The Necessity of Certain Behaviors, University of Pittsburgh Press
Neil Campbell, UK, Pictures from Hopper, Salt Publishing
Eileen Casey, Ireland, Snow Shoes, Arlen House
O Thiam Chin, Singapore, The Rest of Your Life and Everything That Comes With It, ZI Publications
Charles Christian, UK, This is the Quickest Way Down, Proxima
Dave Chua, Singapore, The Beating, Ethos Books
K. L. Cook, USA, Love Songs for the Quarantined, Willow Springs Editions
Mary Costello, Ireland, The China Factory, The Stinging Fly Press
Buffy Cram, Canada, Radio Belly, Douglas & McIntyre
Eugene Cross, USA, Fires of Our Choosing, Dzanc Books
Don DeLillo, USA, The Angel Esmeralda, Picador
Stanley Donwood, UK, Household Worms, Tangent Books
Catherine Eisner, UK, Listen Close to Me, Salt Publishing
Nathan Englander, USA, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, Alfred A. Knopf
Matthew Firth, Canada, Shag Carpet Action, Anvil Press
Órfhlaith Foyle, Ireland, Somewhere in Minnesota, Arlen House
Matthew Francis, UK, Singing a Man to Death, Cinnamon Press
David Galef, USA, My Date With Neanderthal Woman, Dzanc Books
Dagoberto Gilb, USA, Before the End, After the Beginning, Grove Press
Namita Gokhale, India, The Habit of Love, Penguin Group
Lorna Goodison, Jamaica, By Love Possessed, HarperCollins Publishers
Daniel Griffin, Canada, Stopping for Strangers, Véhicule Press
Tessa Hadley, UK, Married Love, Jonathan Cape
Sarah Hall, UK, The Beautiful Indifference, Faber and Faber
Anjum Hasan, India, Difficult Pleasures, Penguin Group
Tania Hershman, UK, My Mother Was an Upright Piano, Tangent Books
Keith Jardim, Trinidad and Tobago, Near Open Water, Peepal Tree Press
Fred Johnston, Ireland, Dancing in the Asylum, Parthian Books
James Martyn Joyce, Ireland, What’s not Said, Arlen House
Suzanne Kamata, USA, The Beautiful One Has Come, Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing
Jackie Kay, UK, Reality, Reality, Picador
Etgar Keret, Israel, Suddenly, a Knock in the Door, Chatto & Windus
Fiona Kidman, New Zealand, The Trouble With Fire, Random House
Zoe Lambert, UK, The War Tour, Comma Press
Krys Lee, USA - South Korea, Drifting House, Faber and Faber
Adam Levin, USA, Hot Pink, McSweeney’s
Peter Markus, USA, We Make Mud, Dzanc Books
Rowena Mcdonald, UK, Smoked Meat, Flambard Press
Jon McGregor, UK, This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You, Bloomsbury
K. R. Meera, India, Yellow Is the Colour of Longing, Penguin Group
Ana Menendez, USA, Adios, Happy Homeland!, Grove Press
Clemens Meyer, Germany, All the Lights, And Other Stories
Kevin Moffett, USA, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, HarperCollins Publishers
Jim Mullarkey, Ireland, And, Doire Press
Sabina Murray, Australia, Tales of the New World, Grove Press
Stuart Nadler, USA, The Book of Life, Picador
Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Ireland, Mother America, New Island
Éllis Ní Dhuibne, Ireland, Shelter of Neighbours, Blackstaff Press
Joyce Carol Oates, USA, The Corn Maiden, Grove Press
Jamie O’Connell, Ireland, Some Sort of Beauty, Bradshaw Books
Rajesh Parameswaran, USA, I Am an Executioner, Bloomsbury
Cassandra Parkin, UK, New World Fairy Tales, Salt Publishing
Lucia Perillo, USA, Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain, W. W. Norton & Company
Dave Pescod, UK, All Embracing, Route
Alice Petersen, Canada, All the Voices Cry, Biblioasis
Stephanie Powell Watts, USA, We Are Taking Only What We Need, BkMk Press
Wayne Price, UK, Furnace, Freight Books
Stephanie Reents, USA, The Kissing List, Hogarth
Rebecca Rosenblum, Canada, The Big Dream, Biblioasis
Pamela Ryder, USA, A Tendency to Be Gone, Dzanc Books
Nathalie Serber, USA, Shout Her Lovely Name, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Johanna Skibsrud, Canada, This Will Be Difficult to Explain, W. W. Norton & Company/ Hamish Hamilton
Yasuko Thanh, Canada, Floating Like the Dead, McClelland & Stewart
Lysley Tenorio, USA - Philippines, Monstress, HarperCollins Publisher
Laura Maylene Walter, USA, Living Arrangements, BkMk Press
Diane Williams, USA, Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty, McSweeney’s
D. W. Wilson, Canada, Once You Break a Knuckle, Bloomsbury/ Hamish Hamilton
Lucy Wood, UK, Diving Belles, Bloomsbury
Barbara Unković, Croatia, Moon Walking, Old Line Publishing
Dina Zaman, Malaysia, King of the Sea, Silverfish Books

Breakdown by Nationality

Australia 1
Canada 9
Croatia 1
Germany 1
India 3
Ireland 9
Israel 1
Jamaica 1
Malaysia 1
New Zealand 1
Singapore 2
South Africa 1
Trinidad and Tobago 1
UK 17
USA 27
USA – Philippines 1
USA – South Korea 1

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