2016 Dublin Shortlist

Ten novels have been shortlisted for the 2016 International DUBLIN Literary Award, proudly sponsored by Dublin City Council and managed by Dublin City Public Libraries. The list includes four novels in translation from Brazil, France, Germany and Spain, Academy Street by Irish author Mary Costello, and novels from India, Jamaica and the USA.

The International DUBLIN Literary Award is worth €100,000 to the winner and is the world’s most valuable annual literary award for a single work of fiction published in English. The award was launched in April 1995. The New Hampshire State Library has been a nominating agency, through the NH Dublin Committee, since 1999.

2016 Shortlisted Titles: 

• Outlaws by Javier Cercas (Spanish) translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
• Academy Street by Mary Costello (Irish) First Novel
• Your Fathers, Where Are They? And The Prophets, Do They Live Forever? by Dave Eggers  (American)
• The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck (German) Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (Jamaican)
• Diary of the Fall by Michel Laub (Brazilian) Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
• Our Lady of the Nile  by Scholastique Mukasonga (Rwandan) First Novel. Translated from French by Melanie Mauthner
• Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill (American)
• Lila by Marilynne Robinson (American)
• Family Life  by Akhil Sharma (Indian-American)