Dublin Literary AwardLonglist2017

Given by Dublin City Public Libraries and Archive

Other Names: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
67 Works 89,297 Books 4,905 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 (29), Shortlist (226), Longlist (2,412)
Years:
All, 2024 (58), 2023 (62), 2022 (68), 2021 (41), 2020 (145), 2019 (128), 2018 (131), 2017 (67), 2016 (147), 2015 (131), 2014 (137), 2013 (72), 2012 (129), 2011 (144), 2010 (149), 2009 (136), 2008 (12), 2007 (9), 2006 (1), 2005 (4), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (78), 2001 (89), 2000 (92), 1999 (101), 1998 (73), 1997 (102), 1996 (104)
Announced:
May 23: Winner2024 Recent
March 26: Shortlist2024 Recent
January 16: Longlist2024 Recent

Longlist 67

WorkYear
Woman of the Dead by Bernhard Aichner2017
Fifteen Dogs: An Apologue by André Alexis2017
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende2017
The Automobile Club of Egypt by Alaa al-Aswani2017
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson2017
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood2017
Dry Season by Gabriela Babnik2017
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman2017
The Blue Guitar by John Banville2017
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry2017
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume2017
The Sellout by Paul Beatty2017
Inside The Black Horse by Ray Berard2017
The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney2017
Sweet Caress by William Boyd2017
The Harder They Come by T.C. Boyle2017
Clade by James Bradley2017
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks2017
Out in the Open by Jesús Carrasco2017
Forever young by Steven Carroll2017
If I Fall, If I Die by Michael Christie2017
The Birthday Lunch by Joan Clark2017
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg2017
Coming Rain by Stephen Daisley2017
The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud2017
The Devil You Know by Elisabeth De Mariaffi2017
The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev2017
Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt2017
Hollow Heart by Viola Di Grado2017
The Heat by Garry Disher2017
Against Nature: The Notebooks by Tomas Espedal2017
Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum2017
The Mirror World of Melody Black by Gavin Extence2017
Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks2017
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy2017
The Pope's Daughter by Dario Fo2017
Purity by Jonathan Franzen2017
Hope Farm by Peggy Frew2017
Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller2017
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill2017
A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale2017
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George2017
Dorst by Esther Gerritsen2017
The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov2017
Best Boy by Eli Gottlieb2017
Chappy by Patricia Grace2017
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff2017
City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg2017
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham2017
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah2017
The Silent Room by Mari Hannah2017
Dictator by Robert Harris2017
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins2017
This Place Holds No Fear by Monika Held2017
The Making of Zombie Wars by Aleksandar Hemon2017
The Illegal: A Novel by Lawrence Hill2017
Submission by Michel Houellebecq2017
Black River by S. M. Hulse2017
The Evening Chorus by Helen Humphreys2017
Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving2017
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro2017
The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson2017
Day Boy by Trent Jamieson2017
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin2017
Where All Light Tends to Go by David Joy2017
The World without Us by Mireille Juchau2017
Man on Fire by Stephen Kelman2017

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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