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ONE IRISH AUTHOR is on the shortlist for this year’s prestigious International Dublin Literary Award, which is sponsored by Dublin City Council.
Milkman, by Anna Burns, is one of this year’s novels that is in with a chance of winning the €100k prize. This year is the 25th year of the award, which is the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction published in English.
If the book has been translated the author receives €75,000 and the translator receives €25,000.
The shortlist announced today includes three novels in translation. The writers, 8 of whom are female, come from Canada, France, India, Iran, Ireland, Poland, the UK and the USA.
The winner of the International Dublin Literary Award 2020 will be announced by its Patron, Lord Mayor Hazel Chu on Thursday 22 October, as part of International Literature Festival Dublin (ILFDublin).
The shortlisted titles are:
Patron of the Award, Lord Mayor Chu, said: “Looking at this fantastic list of books makes me so excited about our Literary Award this year. It’s more important than ever that Dublin City Council does its best to support the Arts in such challenging times and the International Dublin Literary Award is a huge statement of encouragement for writers.”
She urged people to read as many of the books as they can, by borrowing them from their local library countrywide.
The novels on this year’s shortlist were nominated by public libraries in Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Jamaica, New Zealand, Poland, the UK and the USA, and come from Canada, France, India, Iran, Ireland, Poland the UK and the USA.
All the novels nominated for the Award are available for readers to borrow from Dublin’s public libraries and from public libraries around Ireland. Readers can also borrow most of the shortlisted titles on BorrowBox.
Meanwhile, the longlist of 156 titles has been published in a free magazine, and all details are also on the newly revamped Award website.
Previous winners of the award include Idaho by Emily Ruskovich (American) in 2019 and Irish winner Solar Bones by Mike McCormack (Irish), which won in 2018.
The six-strong judging panel includes Niall MacMonagle, Zoë Strachan, Yannick Garcia, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Shreela Ghosh and Professor Chris Morash.
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Why don’t ye invent horse free meatballs ?
Didn’t take long……
Sky +. No more arguments about missing your favourite programme. The best invention by far in our house – the blessed record button !!!!
Thanks be to Sky
Even with Sky+ people cancel. Or they clash. The old way I think the best.
And there was I thinking it was Divorce that stopped domestic rows.
Me and the wife have the two sided elec blanket one in her room and one on mine.
Why do women always leave the toilet seat down ????
To keep the smell of the last man to use it at bay!
Everyone knows that girls are smelly and ugly! Why else would you wear make-up and perfume?
They must be queuing out the door with smooth talking like that…..
There’s a two-sided electric blanket…? How am I only hearing of this now…?
I know. I never heard of that until now.
Have 1 for years , bought in a small hardware shop in Goresbridge !
I never got the whole toilet seat thing.
You share?
Yeah, I prefer half toilets too.
Try aiming Gary..
The dishwasher is a total waste of money!! Hasn’t it been scientifically proven that women are better and faster dishwashers than machines?
Now that is the saddest comment of the year so far.
I don’t see a wife shutter upper machine on the list. We have the flippy toothpaste at home and I leave it open most of the time and I wouldn’t have an electric jacks seat in case I got a shock when my aim goes wonky after a few beers.
Eastenders and holby city buys me some peace every now and then
And we don’t have rows,because I’m right all of the time.
No disrespect meant Susan and point taken with my apologies.
Hey, no worries Glenn!
The automatic toilet seat is ridiculous. A better idea would be a toilet that will not flush until the lid is put down. It will solve the seat up/down argument and be much more hygienic, saving toothbrushes from micro-spray of fecal contaminants.
Why aren’t hurleys mentioned?
I just got sucked/tricked into reading an advertisement.. sneaky TheJournal.. very sneaky!! Now, can I have my two minutes back please?
Hi Thomas, Please note the reply to Glenn (above). This is clearly marked as a sponsored post, with branding and placed in a specially bordered box which shows that it is an ad and not a regular TheJournal.ie article. If you choose to click and read after all those flags, then that’s entirely your responsibility. We’re not in the business of tricking anybody (and I hope you enjoyed it anyway!).
Thanks, Susan, Editor, TheJournal.ie.
Thanks Susan – sure I was only messin’ – I enjoyed it so much I read it twice! :)
Thomas, did we just have our first domestic? To make up for it, I’ll load the dishwasher for a month ;)
So Ikea sponsor the Journal and now contribute editorials. They could do with learning what’s newsworthy and what isn’t.
Hi Glenn, This is clearly marked as a sponsored post, branded and posted in a specially flagged/bordered box to show so. There is no attempt to hide this and it is up to you whether you want to click into the ad and read it or not.
Thanks, Susan, Editor, TheJournal.ie.
I love the way you sneaked that ADD IN . Priceless .
Well done susan,ive no problem with the dishes,just eat in the mistresses house.
How are the meatballs going lads?
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