2020 Dublin Literary Award Longlist
The longlist for the €100,000 2020 International Dublin Literary award has been announced, and includes numerous titles and authors of genre interest:
- Flames, Robbie Arnott (Text Publishing; Atlantic UK)
- The Luminous Sea, Melissa Barbeau (Breakwater)
- The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker (Doubleday)
- The Woman in the Woods, John Connolly (Emily Bestler)
- Vox, Christina Dalcher (Berkley)
- The Saturday Night Ghost Club, Craig Davidson (Penguin)
- The Toymakers, Robert Dinsdale (Del Rey)
- Disoriental, Négar Djavadi (Europa)
- Washington Black, Esi Edugyan (Vintage)
- Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi (Grove)
- In/Half, Jasmin Frelih (Oneworld)
- The Taiga Syndrome, Cristina Rivera Garza (Dorothy)
- The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock, Imogen Hermes Gowar (Harvill Secker)
- Eternal Life, Dara Horn (Norton)
- The Hoarder, Jess Kidd (Canongate)
- Comemadre, Roque Larraquy (Coffee House)
- Severance, Ling Ma (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
- The Water Cure, Sophie Mackintosh (Hamish Hamilton)
- Circe, Madeleine Miller (Little, Brown)
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Otessa Moshfegh (Penguin)
- Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss (Granta)
- Killing Commendatore, Haruki Murakami (Knopf)
- Transparent City, Ondjaki (Biblioasis)
- The Overstory, Richard Powers (Norton)
- Confessions of the Fox, Jordy Rosenberg (One World; Atlantic UK)
- Frankenstein in Baghdad, Ahmed Saadawi (Penguin)
- Theory of Bastards, Audrey Schulman (Europa)
- The Book of M, Peng Shepherd (Morrow)
- Elefant, Martin Suter (Fourth Estate)
- The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Stuart Turton (Bloomsbury)
- Tell the Machine Goodnight, Katie Williams (Riverhead)
A total of 156 titles were nominated by libraries in 119 cities and 40 countries worldwide. The shortlist will be announced April 2, 2020, and the winner June 10. The shortlist and winner are chosen by the judging panel, consisting of Yannick Garcia, Shreela Ghosh, Niall MacMonagle, Chris Morash, Cathy Rentzenbrink, and Zoë Strachan.
For more information, including the complete longlist, see the award website.
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