The Dublin Literary Award

Christchurch City Libraries lists literary prize winners and links to catalogue searches, but we may not hold copies of all titles mentioned.

Every year we nominate a book for the Dublin Literary Award.

The Dublin Literary Award is the largest and most international prize of its kind. It is presented annually for a novel written in English or translated into English. The Award is sponsored by Dublin City Council, the municipal government of Dublin, and administered by Dublin City Public Libraries. The Award aims to promote excellence in world literature. Nominations are submitted by library systems in major cities throughout the world. The Dublin Literary Award is worth €100,000 to the winner. If the book has been translated the author receives €75,000 and the translator received €25,000. The award was launched on 7 April 1995.

See more literary prize winners.

2024 

The longlist was announced on 16 January 2024. The shortlist was announced on the 26 March 2024 and the winning ceremony took place in Dublin on 23 May 2024.

 

2023

The shortlist was announced 28 March 2023. The winner was announced on 26 May 2023. 

Our nomination for 2023

Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka, published by Huia Publishers

 On the face of it, it is simply the retelling of the legend but it is so much more than this. It is about the power of our own voice to tell our story. It is about the importance of story to ourselves and our culture and the destructive nature of someone else telling or supplanting our story eg colonisation. An amazing, thought-provoking, beautifully lyrical work.
 'Do you see what their stories have done?...They have made monsters of us both'. 

Kurangaituku

2022

The winner was announced 23 May 2022.

CoverThe Art of Losing Alice Zeniter, Translated from the French by Frank Wynne Winner
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The Death of Vivek Oji Akwaeke Emezi
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Remote Sympathy Catherine Chidgey
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At Night All Blood is Black David Diop, translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis
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Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
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The Art of Losing Alice Zeniter, Translated from the French by Frank Wynne
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The Art of Falling Danielle McLaughlin
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  • CoverSolar Bones Mike McCormack (Irish) Published by Tramp Press. Winner
  • Baba Dunja’s Last Love Alina Bronsky (Ukrainian/German) Translated from the German by Tim Mohr. Published by Europa Editions.
  • The Transmigration of Bodies Yuri Herrera (Mexican) Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman. Published by And Other Stories.
  • The Unseen Roy Jacobsen (Norwegian) Translated from Norwegian by Don Bartlett & Don Shaw. Published by MacLehose Press.
  • Human Acts Han Kang (South Korean) Translated from Korean by Deborah Smith. Published by Portobello Books and Random House, USA.
  • The Lesser Bohemians Eimear McBride (Irish) Published by Faber & Faber.
  • Distant Light Antonio Moresco (Italian) Translated from Italian by Richard Dixon. Published by Archipelago Books.
  • Ladivine Marie Ndiaye (French) Translated from French by Jordan Stump. Published by MacLehose Press.
  • The Woman Next Door Yewande Omotoso (South African/Nigerian/Barbadian) Published by Chatto & Windus.
  • My Name is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout (American) Published by Penguin, UK

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