have ever read". He wrote that it has been "consistently misread as a 9/11 novel, which stints what is most remarkable about it: that it is a postcolonial re-writing of The Great Gatsby." In an interview with the author published at the end of the Harper Perennial paperback edition, Joseph O'Neill remarks, "Clearly Netherland is having some sort of conversation with The Great Gatsby—saying goodbye to it perhaps, and to some of the notions associated with that wonderful book." Awards and nominations In the weeks leading up the announcement of the 2008 Man Booker Prize, Netherland was spoken of by some literary pundits as being the favourite to win. However, on 9 September 2008, the Booker nominee shortlist was announced and the novel, surprisingly at least for some critics at the New York Times, failed to make the list. The book was also nominated for the Warwick Prize for Writing (2008/9) and made it to the long list of that prize announced in November 2008. Netherland won the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the 2009 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. On 12 April 2010, Netherland was announced as one of the 8 novels on the shortlist for the International Dublin Literary Award. Translations The punning title is untranslatable into Dutch, and the Dutch translation takes the title Laagland ("Lowland") rather than the more literal but ambiguous Nederland. Notes External links "Two Paths for the Novel", Zadie Smith review of Netherland from The New York Review of Books (Interview with Joseph O'Neill) BBC interview with Barack Obama praising the novel Netherland: 1st Obama Book Club Selection – A review of Obama's taste in reading, May, 2009. Review: Netherland – The New York Times Neitherlander – An Irishman's Difficulties with The Dutch Character Comments by a Dutchman (in development) 2008 Irish novels Novels about cricket Novels set in New York City PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction-winning works