2019 Dublin Literary Award Longlist
The longlist for the 2019 International Dublin Literary award has been announced, and includes numerous titles and authors of genre interest:
- Stay With Me, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (Knopf)
- 4321, Paul Auster (Henry Holt)
- The Heart’s Invisible Furies, John Boyne (Hogarth)
- A Long Way From Home, Peter Carey (Knopf)
- Terra Nullius, Claire G. Coleman (Small Beer)
- Smile, Roddy Doyle (Viking)
- Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan (Scribner)
- American War, Omar El Akkad (Knopf)
- The Invented Part, Rodrigo Fresán (Open Letter)
- How to Stop Time, Matt Haig (Viking)
- Exit West, Mohsin Hamid (Riverhead)
- The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
- Spaceman of Bohemia, Jaroslav Kalfař (Back Bay)
- The Changeling, Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
- All Our Wrong Todays, Elan Mastai (Dutton)
- Elmet, Fiona Mozley (Algonquin)
- A Book of American Martyrs, Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco)
- Reincarnation Blues, Michael Poore (Del Rey)
- The Bedlam Stacks, Natasha Pulley (Bloomsbury)
- Son of a Trickster, Eden Robinson (Knopf)
- The Golden House, Salman Rushdie (Random House)
- Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders (Random House)
- Fever Dream, Samanta Schweblin (Riverhead)
- The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland (William Morrow)
- Naondel, Maria Turtschaninoff (Amulet)
- Temporary People, Deepak Unnikrishnan (Restless)
- Borne, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD)
- Radiant Terminus, Antoine Volodine (Open Letter)
- Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward (Scribner)
- When the English Fall, David Williams (Algonquin)
- The Book of Joan, Lidia Yuknavitch (HarperCollins)
- The Image Interpreter, Zoran Živković (Cadmus)
A total of 141 titles were nominated by libraries in 115 cities and 41 countries worldwide. The shortlist will be announced April 4, 2019, and the €100,000 prize winner will be announced June 12, 2019. The shortlist and winner are chosen by the 2019 judging panel, consisting of Eilis Ní Dhuibhne, Yan Ge, Martin Middeke, Hans-Christian Oeser, Eugene R. Sullivan (non-voting chair), and Evie Wyld.
For more information, including the complete longlist, see the award website.
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