2025 Dublin Literary Award Longlist

• Audition, Pip Adam (Te Herenga Waka University Press)
• The Enigmatic Madam Ingram, Meihan Boey (Epigram)
• The Fox Wife, Yangsze Choo (Henry Holt)
• James, Percival Everett (Doubleday)
• Hagstone, Sinéad Gleeson (HarperCollins)
• The Mark, Fríða Ísberg, translated by Larissa Kyzer (Faber & Faber)
• Fishing for the Little Pike, Juhani Karila, translated by Lola Rogers (Restless)
• The Future, Catherine Leroux, translated by Susan Ouriou (Biblioasis)
• Terrace Story, Hilary Leichter (HarperCollins)
• Prophet Song, Paul Lynch (One World/Grove)
• The Family Experiment, John Marrs (Hanover Square)
• North Woods, Daniel Mason (Random House)
• The Incredible Dreams of Garba Dakaskus, Umar Abubakar Sidi (Masobe)
• A Short Walk through a Wide World, Douglas Westerbeke (Avid Reader)
• Stone Yard Devotional, Charlotte Wood (Sceptre)

The 71 titles were “nominated by 83 libraries from 34 countries around the world.” Titles eligible for the 2025 award were published between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024.

The winner receives €100,000 (or, for a translated work, €75,000/€25,000 split between the author/translator). The judges are Gerbrand Bakker, Leonard Cassuto, Martina Devlin, Chris Morash (non-voting chair), Fiona Sze-Lorrain, and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe.

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

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