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The shortlist for the international IMPAC Dublin Award, one of the world’s largest prizes, was announced four weeks ago. According to this article, Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex was nominated by the largest number of libraries, so he seems like the popular choice. The jury is comprised of Anita Desai, Knut Odegard, Eugene R. Sullivan and Shirley Geok-Lin Lim.