Colm Toibin was also nominated for the Booker prize

Their works are among 10 books shortlisted for the 100,000 euro (�70,000) prize.

Other nominees include Samuel Johnson Prize winner Jonathan Coe, Nadeem Aslam Chris Abani, and Danish writer Jens Christian Grondahl.

Yasmina Khadra, Vyvyane Loh and Thomas Wharton make up the shortlist.

Previous winners

The International Impac Dublin Literary Award (Impac), now in its 11th year, is open to novels written in any language by authors of any nationality, provided the book has been published in or translated into English.

Toibin is this year's favourite with his Booker prize-nominated book The Master, while Coe is nominated for The Closed Circle.

Last year's prize was won by US writer Edward P Jones for The Known World.

Other previous winners include This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun, My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk, and Atomised by Michel Houellebecq.

The announcement of the 2006 winner will be made in Dublin on 14 June.