Dublin Literary Award1998

Given by Dublin City Public Libraries and Archive

Other Names: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
83 Works 96,424 Books 2,200 Reviews ½ 3.8
At the heart of the Dublin Literary Award is a vast network of libraries; not just the network of Dublin City Libraries who have happily been serving communities since 1884 but libraries in show more cities, big and small around the world.



Dublin Literary Award honours excellence in world literature since 1996. Presented annually, the Award is one of the most significant literature prizes in the world, worth €100,000 for a single work of fiction in original English or translated into English. If the winning book is in English translation, the author receives €75,000 and the translator, €25,000.



Each year, a longlist is created of nominated books from invited public libraries in cities around the world. Our esteemed panel of judges then face the monumental task of narrowing these titles down to a shortlist of no more than ten titles. From this shortlist of exceptional work, one winner is selected and announced in a ceremony during the International Literature Festival Dublin.



Since 2015, the Award has been sponsored solely by Dublin City Council, administered by Dublin City Libraries and kindly supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (28), Shortlist (227), Longlist (2,418)
Years:
All, 2024 (70), 2023 (68), 2022 (74), 2021 (46), 2020 (155), 2019 (136), 2018 (141), 2017 (77), 2016 (157), 2015 (142), 2014 (147), 2013 (81), 2012 (140), 2011 (155), 2010 (155), 2009 (144), 2008 (20), 2007 (17), 2006 (11), 2005 (14), 2004 (11), 2003 (9), 2002 (85), 2001 (95), 2000 (101), 1999 (108), 1998 (83), 1997 (110), 1996 (118)
Announced:
2024-05-23: Winner2024 Upcoming
March 26: Shortlist2024 Recent
January 16: Longlist2024 Recent

Winner 1

WorkYear
The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller1998

Shortlist 9

WorkYear
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood1998
Imagenings of Sand by André Brink1998
The Counting House by David Dabydeen1998
The Glade within the Grove by David Foster1998
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid1998
Salt by Earl Lovelace1998
The Pope's Rhinoceros by Lawrence Norfolk1998
Last Orders by Graham Swift1998
The Englishman's Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe1998

Longlist 73

WorkYear
The Joy of Being Awake by Hector Abad1998
Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie1998
The Lone Man by Bernardo Atxaga1998
According to the Law by Solvej Balle1998
Acts of Revision by Martyn Bedford1998
About Schmidt by Louis Begley1998
State of Absence by Tahar Ben Jelloun1998
High Latitudes: A Romance by James Buchan1998
A Conspiracy of Hope by Michael Cannon1998
Urwind by Bo Carpelan1998
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness by Paulo Coelho1998
Dear Future by Fred D'Aguiar1998
Unholy Ghosts by Ita Daly1998
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane1998
The Virtuoso by Margriet De Moor1998
My Father's War by Adriaan van Dis1998
The Woman who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle1998
The Drowner by Robert Drewe1998
Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker1998
The Law of Love by Laura Esquivel1998
Shadow Baby by Margaret Forster1998
Before Women Had Wings by Connie May Fowler1998
Diana, The Goddess who Hunts Alone by Carlos Fuentes1998
Blood Brothers: The Conquest of Freedom (Voices of Africa) by Clifford Fyle1998
Strandloper by Alan Garner1998
Pushing the Bear by Diane Glancy1998
The Marx Family Saga by Juan Goytisolo1998
Trolls' Cathedral by Olafur Gunnarsson1998
The Arizona Game by Georgina Hammick1998
Atticus by Ron Hansen1998
Jonestown by Wilson Harris1998
The Fallen Man by Tony Hillerman1998
Oyster by Janette Turner Hospital1998
The Enchantment of Lily Dahl by Siri Hustvedt1998
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt1998
Middle Son by Deborah Iida1998
Slowness by Milan Kundera1998
The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester1998
Love, Again by Doris Lessing1998
Epigraph by Gordon Lish1998
Heat Wave by Penelope Lively1998
Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa1998
The Rooms in My Mother's House by Olga Lorenzo1998
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald1998
Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter by J. Nozipo Maraire1998
Carolina Moon (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Jill McCorkle1998
The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken1998
Asylum by Patrick McGrath1998
I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn1998
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels1998
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser1998
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard1998
The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch1998
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates1998
Down by the River by Edna O'Brien1998
The River beyond the World by Janet Peery1998
City of Darkness, City of Light by Marge Piercy1998
Tinisima by Elena Poniatowska1998
The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte1998
Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx1998
Rasero by Francisco Rebolledo1998
The Innocence of Roast Chicken by Jo-Anne Richards1998
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell1998
A Chance to See Egypt by Sandra Scofield1998
The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald1998
Love-Fifteen by Antonio Skármeta1998
Anita and Me by Meera Syal1998
The Story of the Night by Colm Tóibín1998
After Hannibal by Barry Unsworth1998
In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike1998
Steal Away by Timothy Watts1998
The Veracruz Blues by Mark Winegardner1998
Dr. Neruda's Cure for Evil by Rafael Yglesias1998

Descriptions

At the heart of the Dublin Literary Award is a vast network of libraries; not just the network of Dublin City Libraries who have happily been serving communities since 1884 but libraries in cities, big and small around the world.

Dublin Literary Award honours excellence in world literature since 1996. Presented annually, the Award is one of the most significant literature prizes in the world, worth €100,000 for a single work of fiction in original English or translated into English. If the winning book is in English translation, the author receives €75,000 and the translator, €25,000.

Each year, a longlist is created of nominated books from invited public libraries in cities around the world. Our esteemed panel of judges then face the monumental task of narrowing these titles down to a shortlist of no more than ten titles. From this shortlist of exceptional work, one winner is selected and announced in a ceremony during the International Literature Festival Dublin.

Since 2015, the Award has been sponsored solely by Dublin City Council, administered by Dublin City Libraries and kindly supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature.

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URL: https://dublinliteraryaward.ie/about/
International literary award for new works of high literary merit in the English language. (English, Member-written)

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