2022 Dublin Literary Award Longlist

• Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
• Here Is the Beehive, Sarah Crossan (Little, Brown)
• Second Place, Rachel Cusk (Faber & Faber)
• The Last Queen, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (HarperCollins)
• The Death of Vivek Oji, Akwaeke Emezi (Riverhead)
• I Is Another, Jon Fosse (Transit)
• The Imago Stage, Karoline Georges (Coach)
• Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf)
• Antkind, Charlie Kaufman (Random House)
• Xstabeth, David Keenan (Europa)
• Indians on Vacation, Thomas King (HarperCollins)
• Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov (Deep Vellum)
• Kraft, Jonas Lüscher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Migrations, Charlotte McConaghy (Flatiron)
• Betty, Tiffany McDaniel (Vintage)
• Utopia Avenue, David Mitchell (Random House)
• The Employees, Olga Ravn (New Directions)
• Punching the Air, Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam (Balzer + Bray)
• Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, Matthew Salesses (Little A)

The 79 titles were nominated by libraries around the world with nominations including “30 novels in translation, spanning 19 languages, with works nominated by 94 libraries from 40 countries across Africa, Europe, Asia, the US & Canada, South America and Australia & New Zealand.” The winner receives €100,000. The judges are Sinéad Moriarty, Alvin Pang, Clíona Ní Ríordáin, Emmanuel Dandaura, and Victoria White. The shortlist will be revealed March 22, 2022.

For more information and the full longlist, see the announcement here.

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