2024 Dublin Literary Award Longlist

• Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Pantheon)
• Limberlost, Robbie Arnott (Atlantic)
• The Crane Husband, Kelly Barnhill (Tordotcom)
• The House of Fortune, Jessie Burton (Bloomsbury)
• Solenoid, Mircea Cărtărescu (Deep Vellum)
• Birnam Wood, Eleanor Catton (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
• The Axeman’s Carnival, Catherine Chidgey (Te Herenga Waka University Press)
• The Drinker of Horizons, Mia Couto (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
• Day’s End, Garry Disher (Viper)
• Haven, Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown)
• Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez (Granta)
• This Other Eden, Paul Harding (Norton)
• The World and All That it Holds, Aleksandar Hemon (MCD)
• The Great Reclamation, Rachel Heng (Riverhead)
• When We Were Fireflies, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (Masobe)
• The Moonday Letters, Emmi Itäranta (Titan)
• Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
• Lone Women, Victor LaValle (One World)
• The Sleeping Car Porter, Suzette Mayr (Coach House)
• Falling Hour, Geoffrey Morrison (Coach House)
• Thistlefoot, Genna Rose Nethercott (Anchor)
• Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng (Penguin)
• Ada’s Realm, Sharon Dodua Otoo (Riverhead)
• A History of the Island, Eugene Vodolazkin (Plough)
• Crooked Plow, Itamar Vieira Junior (Verso Fiction)
• Praiseworthy, Alexis Wright (New Directions)
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin (Knopf)

The 70 titles were “nominated by 80 libraries from 35 countries around the world.” The winner receives €100,000. The judges are Anton Hur, Chris Morash (non-voting chair), Daniel Medin, Ingunn Snædal, Irenosen Okojie, and Lucy Collins. The shortlist will be revealed March 26, 2024.

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

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