Dublin Literary Award2016

Given by Dublin City Public Libraries and Archive

Other Names: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
157 Works 154,784 Books 9,094 Reviews ½ 3.9
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
Family Life by Akhil Sharma2016

Shortlist 9

WorkYear
Outlaws by Javier Cercas2016
Academy Street by Mary Costello2016
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? by Dave Eggers2016
The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck2016
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James2016
Diary of the Fall by Michel Laub2016
Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga2016
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill2016
Lila by Marilynne Robinson2016

Longlist 147

WorkYear
The King by Kader Abdolah2016
The Michelangelo Code by Nazehran Jose Ahmad2016
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine2016
Song of the Shank: A Novel by Jeffery Renard Allen2016
The Zone of Interest: A novel by Martin Amis2016
Cairo by Louis Armand2016
The Incarnations by Susan Barker2016
The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry2016
A Fairy Tale by Jonas T. Bengtsson2016
Above the East China Sea: A novel by Sarah Bird2016
The Strays by Emily Bitto2016
Life Drawing by Robin Black2016
Rapids (Liechtensteinian Literature Series) by Patrick Boltshauser2016
Texas: The Great Theft by Carmen Boullosa2016
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton2016
Ghost Moon by Ron Butlin2016
Bonita Avenue by Peter Buwalda2016
Confessions by Jaume Cabré2016
Gutenberg's Apprentice by Alix Christie2016
Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement2016
Adultery by Paulo Coelho2016
Tales of the Metric System by Imraan Coovadia2016
Sweetland by Michael Crummey2016
The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham2016
Outline by Rachel Cusk2016
Lost & Found by Brooke Davis2016
The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld2016
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker2016
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr2016
The Avenue of the Giants by Marc Dugain2016
1914 by Jean Echenoz2016
Kamal Jann by Dominique Eddé2016
Zo ook op aarde by Davide Enia2016
LaRose by Louise Erdrich2016
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber2016
The Barefoot Queen by Ildefonso Falcones2016
I Called Him Necktie by Milena Michiko Flašar2016
Song for an Approaching Storm by Peter Fröberg Idling2016
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith2016
Blood-Drenched Beard: A Novel by Daniel Galera2016
Who is Martha? by Marjana Gaponenko2016
The Great War by Aleksandar Gatalica2016
The Hilltop by Assaf Gavron2016
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay2016
Live Bait by Fabio Genovesi2016
What came before by Anna George2016
Little Egypt by Lesley Glaister2016
Thai by Goran Gocic (2014-01-01) by Goran Gocic2016
All Russians Love Birch Trees by Olga Grjasnowa2016
Falling Out of Time by David Grossman2016
The Hollow Ground by Natalie S. Harnett2016
Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnett2016
A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain by Adrianne Harun2016
The Amber Fury by Natalie Haynes2016
Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey2016
This Should Be Written in the Present Tense by Helle Helle2016
Last bus to Coffeeville by J. Paul Henderson2016
Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson2016
The Claimant by Janette Turner Hospital2016
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt2016
Natchez Burning by Greg Iles2016
The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov2016
Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta2016
The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson2016
Fallout by Sadie Jones2016
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce2016
Bericht uit Berlijn by Otto de Kat2016
F by Daniel Kehlmann2016
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd2016
Euphoria by Lily King2016
The Back Of The Turtle by Thomas King2016
Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch2016
The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna2016
The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami2016
Uncle Brother by Barbara Lalla2016
The Texture of Shadows: A Novel by Mandla Langa2016
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee2016
10:04: A Novel by Ben Lerner2016
The Golden Age by Joan London2016
The Undertaking by Audrey Magee2016
Placebo: The Beauty and Horror of Lies by Sead Mahmutefendic2016
Where the Rēkohu bone sings by Tina Makereti2016
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel2016
Very Little Light : an omnibua novel by Vladan Matijevic2016
Of Things Gone Astray by Janina Matthewson2016
Limbo by Melania G. Mazzucco2016
The Children Act by Ian McEwan2016
Cicada by Moira McKinnon2016
Rachel's Blue by Zakes Mda2016
All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu2016
Us Conductors by Sean Michaels2016
The Bone Clocks: A Novel by David Mitchell2016
How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran2016
Invisible Beasts by Sharona Muir2016
The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee2016
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami2016
Here Come the Dogs: A Novel by Omar Musa2016
The Luminous Heart of Jonah S. by Gina B. Nahai2016
Talking to Ourselves by Andrés Neuman2016
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng2016
Us by David Nicholls2016
Unravelling Oliver by Liz Nugent2016
The Thrill of it All by Joseph O'Connor2016
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O'Neill2016
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi2016
The Bees by Laline Paull2016
I Refuse by Per Petterson2016
Fives and Twenty-Fives by Michael Pitre2016
Orfeo by Richard Powers2016
In the light of what we know by Zia Haider Rahman2016
The Bright Side of my Condition by Charlotte Randall2016
See You Tomorrow by Tore Renberg2016
Severina by Rodrigo Rey Rosa2016
Last Night at the Blue Angel by Rebecca Rotert2016
The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss2016
Lock In by John Scalzi2016
The Giraffe's Neck by Judith Schalansky2016
Nowhere People by Paulo Scott2016
Notes from Underground by Roger Scruton2016
Ten Women by Marcela Serrano2016
The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar2016
The Heist: A Novel by Daniel Silva2016
Some Luck by Jane Smiley2016
How to Be Both by Ali Smith2016
I Loved You More by Tom Spanbauer2016
All Days Are Night by Peter Stamm2016
Who By Fire by Fred Stenson2016
We are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas2016
Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín2016
A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar2016
House of Purple Cedar by Tim Tingle2016
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews2016
Tiger Milk by Stefanie de Velasco2016
Christ's Entry into Brussels by Dimitri Verhulst2016
Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes2016
Completion. by Tim Walker2016
The Diary of Mary Travers by Eibhear Walshe2016
The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle by Kirsty Wark2016
Their Lips Talk of Mischief by Alan Warner2016
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters2016
Will Starling by Ian Weir2016
Small Blessings by Martha Woodroof2016
Land of love and drowning : a novel by Tiphanie Yanique2016
Decompression by Juli Zeh2016
The Lobster Kings by Alexi Zentner2016
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin2016
The Night Watchman by Richard Zimler2016

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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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