Australian Gail Jones's novel Dreams of Speaking has been shortlisted for the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

The shortlist was selected from a total of 137 novels nominated this year. The Award is worth €100,000 and is the world’s most valuable literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English. The full shortlist is:

• The Speed of Light – Javier Cercas (Spanish) in translation. Bloomsbury
• The Sweet and Simple Kind – Yasmine Gooneraratne (Sri Lankan) Perrera Hussein Publishing House
• De Niro’s Game – Rawi Hage (Lebanese / Canadian) House of Anansi Press
• Dreams of Speaking – Gail Jones (Australian) Harvill Secker / Vintage
• Let It Be Morning – Sayed Kashua (Israeli) in translation. Black Cat / Grove Atlantic
• The Attack – Yasmina Khadra (Algerian) in translation. Vintage / Nan A. Talese
• The Woman Who Waited – Andrei Makine (Russian) in translation. Sceptre
• Winterwood – Patrick McCabe (Irish) Bloomsbury