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TWO IRISH NOVELS have been shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.
The Award is worth €100,000 to the winner – making it the most valuable annual prize for works of fiction published in English.
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride and Solar Bones by Mike McCormack are the two books by Irish authors that have been shortlisted for the 2018 prize.
The 10 shortlisted titles have been chosen by an international panel of judges. Overall 40 countries were represented with 150 books originally being longlisted in November.
There are also six novels in translation from France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Mexico and South Korea and novels from South Africa and the USA.
If the book has been translated the author receives €75,000 and the translator receives €25,000.
The shortlisted titles are:
The award, sponsored by Dublin City Council and managed by Dublin City Libraries, was launched on 7 April 1995 and is now in its 23rd year.
Dublin’s Lord Mayor, Ardmhéara, Mícheál Mac Donncha said, “The titles on this year’s shortlist were nominated by public libraries in Canada, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and the USA.
This is the beauty of this award; it reaches out to readers and authors worldwide, while also celebrating excellence in contemporary Irish literature represented on the 2018 shortlist by Eimear McBride and Mike McCormack.
Dublin City Librarian Margaret Hayes said, “Issues of violence and crime, isolation and reconciliation, identity and family are set in contrasting urban and rural landscapes. For readers, these stories reveal unfamiliar cultures and countries through memorable characters and their literary narratives.”
The five member international judging panel, chaired by Hon. Eugene R. Sullivan, will select one winner which will be announced by Lord Mayor, Ardmhéara, Mícheál Mac Donncha,on Wednesday 13 June.
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It’s only a matter of time. driving accounts for 30% of male employment worldwide. When vans trucks light rail taxis are driverless there will be an unemployment disaster.
exactly Patrick, rise of the machines technology is not always a good thing.
I don’t think I’d be ready to trust this technology anyway.
Automation has been killing jobs for centuries and will continue to do so for millennia.
As always people will have to adapt and adjust careers accordingly.
Can’t hold back progress.
Do you have a source for that, Patrick?
Those guys can work at something else. This is a great thing. Can’t wait for driverless cars.
Taxi drivers, van drivers, lorry drivers, bus drivers all looking at this and feeling a bit uneasy I’d imagine… on the plus side if it can take me home from the pub on a Friday night it won’t be the worst thing in the world
I look at advancements in technology in my sector and feel the same uneasiness. Can either sit back and do nothing, or look to try and learn new skills.
Who’s going to clean the puke off the seat before you get in.. Or who will wake up the drunk passenger in the back seat.. Self drive taxis may work well in some places but will not work well at 4am on a Saturday night in Dublin..
I would imagine there will be multiple internal cameras. Plus payment will be by card only. If camera catches a passenger damaging the car i.e. Puking…charge to card straight away.
Problem is technology/AI is advancing so quickly it is now replacing humans rather yhan just impeovibg the work place. Imagine the fin hackers will have with automated vehicles!??
Cheer up, planes still have pilots.
By the time the driver realizes that an accident is imminent it is generally too late to grab control. Safe driving requires forward planning and anticipation. You cannot be plunged into an emergency manual override position moments from disaster and expect to avoid it.
There’s many reported cases by Teslas stopping accidents before the driver even realised one was happening. Loads on dash cam vids and accounts on motoring forums. The tech is already saving lives. Given the number of road deaths here and around the world we’d be mad not to pursue this.
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