International Dublin Literary Award

The shortlist for this year's International Dublin Literary Award has been announced:

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Outlaws by Javier Cercas
Diary of the Fall by Michel Laub
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck
Academy Street by Mary Costello
Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga
Family Life by Akil Sharma
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? by Dave Eggers

The winning novel will be announced on June 9th.

I've read and can highly recommend the James and the Cercas. The Mukasonga and the Sharma were good, but I would be surprised if either book won. I have the Erpenbeck, which I'd like to read soon, and the Robinson, which I'll get to eventually.

http://www.dublinliteraryaward.ie

Outlaws is really good (and the only one from the list I had read) :)

I managed to read all but Family Life and found some gems on the list. I especially enjoyed Outlaws, Diary of the Fall and Our Lady of the Nile, but all were good reads. This is a list I will watch in future years - I think these books recommended by librarians have more global appeal than many of the more specific award lists.

Family Life by Akhil Sharma is the winner of the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award.

http://www.dublinliteraryaward.ie/news/winner-2016-press-release/

The 2017 Long list is up and I've done a list on Librarything https://www.librarything.com/list/11136/all/Dublin-Literary-Award-Longlist-2017

Official list is here: http://www.dublinliteraryaward.ie/nominees/

The 2017 shortlist is also available now: http://www.dublinliteraryaward.ie/2017-shortlist/

A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa

Confession of the Lioness by Mia Couto

The Green Road by Anne Enright

The Prophets of Eternal Fjord by Kim Leine

The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk

A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

10 books shortlisted for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award

•Compass by Mathias Énard, translated by Charlotte Mandell.
•History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund.
•Exit West by Mohsin Hamid.
•Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty.
•Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor.
•Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney.
•Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
•Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders.
•A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert
•Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

The winner will be announced on June 12th

>7 bergs47: Nice shortlist. I’ve read five of those books (the ones by Hamid, MacLaverty, McGregor, Saunders and Shamsie), which were all very good, and own two others (by Énard and Fridlund).

I've read 5 as well - Fridlund, Hamid, Saunders, Seiffert and Shamsie. Interesting mix!

Emily Ruskovich’s Idaho lands the €100,000 International Dublin literary award

The 2020 Shortlist will be announced on Thursday 3rd September & the overall winner announced on Thursday 22nd October.

The 2020 shortlist:

Pat Barker - The Silence of the Girls
Anna Burns - Milkman
Négar Djavadi - Disoriental
Esi Edugyan - Washington Black
Tayari Jones - An American Marriage
Édouard Louis - History of Violence
Sigrid Nunez - The Friend
Tommy Orange - There There
Anuradha Roy - All the Lives We Never Lived
Olga Tokarczuk - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead