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Monday, November 6, 2017

2018 International Dublin Literary Award Longlist

The 2018 longlist for the International Dublin Literary Award has been announced:  150 novels from 40 countries in 18 languages.  At €100,000, the award is the world’s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English.

There have been two Canadian winners of the Award to date.  Alistair MacLeod was awarded the prize in 2001 for his novel No Great Mischief, and Rawi Hage received the prize for De Niro’s Game in 2008.  This year there are 14 Canadian nominees, of which I have read only 5:

Rachel Cust - Transit
Dominique Fortier - The Island of Books
Michelle Butler Hallett - This Marlowe
Jen Sookfong Lee - The Conjoined
Catherine Leroux - The Party Wall 
Ashley Little - Niagara Motel
Lisa Moore - Flannery
Edward Riche - Today I Learned It Was You
Paul Rowe - The Last Half of the Year

Perhaps we can also claim Emma Donoghue (who was born in Ireland but is now a Canadian citizen living in Canada) who is nominated for The Wonder (http://schatjesshelves.blogspot.ca/2016/11/review-of-wonder-by-emma-donoghue.html).   And what about David Szalay (who was born in Canada though the UK has been his home for most of his life) who is nominated for All That Man Is?

Here are the other nominees which I have read:

The full list of 150 titles is available at http://www.dublinliteraryaward.ie/nominees/. The shortlist will be published in April 2018 and the winner will be announced on June 13, 2018.  I have only 131 books to read in about 7 months!

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