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SEVEN IRISH NOVELS have been listed among the 160 titles nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award.
The €100,000 award is the world’s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English.
The 160 books were nominated by libraries in 118 cities and 44 countries worldwide.
Nominations include 53 novels in translation, with works by 44 American, 25 British, 10 Canadian, 10 Australian, six German and three South African authors.
The Irish titles nominated for 2016 are:
Last year’s winner Jim Crace, who was interviewed by TheJournal.ie shorly after his win, said:
Winning the award was a surprise and a delight. What didn’t surprise me was the liveliness and the warmth… It’s what I have learned to expect from Dubliners. I was especially impressed that writing and reading never left the spotlight.
All of the novels nominated are available from Dublin’s public libraries. The full list of 160 titles is available on www.dublinliteraryaward.ie.
The shortlist will be published on April 12 2016, and the Lord Mayor will announce the winner on June 9.
The International Dublin Literary Award (formerly known as the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award) is managed by Dublin City Council’s library service.
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Good luck with the book.
I was always curious why these awards offer the largest prize worldwide – particularly without a title sponsor.
100 grand is a hell of a prize; should they win, it would be more than the royalties for lots of the authors I would guess.
Dublin City Council sponsors this. Which I presume comes from government funding. Many other awards have a submission fee. Not to take away from the achievement of these authors but the problem with them is they are exclusive to certain forms of publishing and the author or publisher having the funds to invest in a campaign and participation. So they are not open to all books. Personally, award winning doesn’t mean much to me when choosing a book to read. But, good much to those in the running for the prize money.
*good luck*
At least two of those books were published in 2014. What is the criteria for selecting books re; publication date?
Nomination.
One is that they must have been first published in 2014.
It is a public library award and the rules have always been that the award must go to books published in the previous year, rather than that year, as usually new titles do not immediately appear on the shelves in the library
So the bruised and battered Irish taxpayer has to cough up exorbitant amounts for yet another “book prize”.
Not just “any” amount…the most expensive in the world.
Nobody has ever explained what those “prizes” are for exactly.
Most amazing of all this prize deliberately excludes any books written in the Irish language.
Only in Ireland.
Only in Ireland could we find a cynic like you :)
Just about the right size lol.
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