International Dublin
Literary Award
The winners of the award appear first, followed by the
shortlist. For more information about the award, click
here.
2018
Solar bones : a novel by Mike McCormack
Shortlist:
Baba Dunja's last love by Alina Bronsky, translated from the
German by Tim Mohr
The transmigration of bodies by Yuri Herrera, translated from
the Spanish by Lisa Dillman
The unseen by Roy Jacobsen, translated from the Norwegian by Don
Bartlett and Don Shaw
Human acts : a novel by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by
Deborah Smith
The lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
Distant light by Antonio Moresco, translated from the Italian by
Richard Dixon
Ladivine by Marie Ndiaye, translated from the French by Jordan
Stump
The woman next door by Yewande Omotoso
My
name is Lucy Barton : a novel by Elizabeth Strout
2017
A general theory of oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa ;
translated from the original Portuguese by Daniel Hahn
Shortlist:
The Green Road by Anne Enright
A little
life : a novel by Hanya Yanagihara
The story of my teeth by Valeria Luiselli ; translated from the
original Spanish by Christina MacSweeney
Under the udala trees by Chinelo Okparanta
A strangeness in my mind : a novel by Orhan Pamuk ; translated from the
original Turkish by Ekin Oklap
Confession of the lioness by Mia Couto ; translated from the
original Portuguese by David Brookshaw
The
sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
2016
Family life : a novel by Akhil Sharma
Shortlist:
Outlaws by Javier Cercas ; translated from the Spanish by Anne
McLean
Academy street by Mary Costello
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live
forever? : a novel by Dave Eggers
The end of days by Jenny Erpenbeck ; translated from the German
by Susan Bernofsky
A
brief history of seven killings : a novel by Marlon James
Diary of the fall by Michel Laub ; translated from the
Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga ; translated from
the French by Melanie Mauthner
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Lila
by Marilynne Robinson
2015
Harvest by Jim Crace
Shortlist:
Americanah : a novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Horses of God by Mahi Binebine; translated from the French by
Lulu Norman
The narrow road to the deep North by Richard Flanagan
Burial rites by Hannah Kent
K by Bernardo Kucinski; translated from the Portuguese by Sue
Branford
Brief loves that live forever by Andreï Makine; translated from
the French by Geoffrey Strachan
TransAtlantic : a novel by Colum McCann
Someone by Alice McDermott
Sparta by Roxana Robinson
2014
The
sound of things falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated
by Anne McLean
Shortlist:
The detour by Gerbrand Bakker, translated by David Colmer
Questions of travel by Michelle De Kretser
Absolution by Patrick Flanery
A death in the family by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Don
Bartlett
Three
strong women : a novel by Marie NDiaye, translated by John
Fletcher
Traveller of the century by Andrés Neuman, translated by Nick
Caistor and Lorenza Garcia
The light of Amsterdam by David Park
The spinning heart by Donal Ryan
The garden of evening mists by Tan Twan Eng
2013
City
of Bohane : a novel by Kevin Barry (click
here for more information about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
The map and the territory by Michel Houllebecq, translated by Gavin Bowd
1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
Pure
by Andrew Miller
The Buddha in the attic by Julie Otsuka
The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
From the mouth of the Whale by Sjón
The faster I walk, the smaller I am by Kjersti A. Skomsvold
Caesarion by Tommy Wieringa
2012
Even the dogs by Jon McGregor (click
here
for more information about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
Rocks in the belly by Jon Bauer
The matter with Morris by David Bergen
A visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
The memory of love by Animatta Forna
Matterhorn : a novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
Landed by Tim Pears
Limassol by Yishai Sarid
The eternal son by Cristovão Tezza
Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin
2011
Let the great world spin : a novel by Colum McCann (click
here
for more information about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
Galore by Micheal Crummey
The lacuna : a novel by Barbara Kingsolver
The vagrants : a novel by Yiyun Li
Ransom by David Malouf
Little bird of heaven : a novel by Joyce Carol Oates
Jasper Jones : a novel by Craig Silvey
Brooklyn by Colm Toibín
Love and Summer by William Trevor
After the fire, a still, small voice by Evie Wyld
2010
The twin by Gerbrand Bakker ; translated from the
original Dutch by David Colmer (click
here for more information
about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
The elegance of the hedgehog by Muriel Barbery ; translated from
the original French by Alison Anderson
In zodiac light by Robert Edric
Settlement : a novel by Christoph Hein ; translated from the
original German by Philip Boehm
The believers by Zoë Heller
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
God's own country by Ross Raisin
Home by Marilynne Robinson
2009
Man gone down by Michael Thomas (click
here for more information
about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Ravel : a novel by Jean Echenoz
The reluctant fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The archivist's story by Travis Holland
The burnt-out town of miracles by Roy Jacobsen
The Indian clerk : a novel by David Leavitt
Animal's people by Indra Sinha
2008
DeNiro's game by Rawi Hage (click
here for more information
about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
The speed of light by Javier Cercas
The sweet and simple kind by Yasmine Gooneratne
Dreams of speaking by Gail Jones
Let it be morning by Sayed Kashua
The attack by Yasmina Khadra
The woman who waited by Andrei Makine
Winterwood by Patrick McCabe
2007
Out stealing horses by Per Petterson ; translated from Norwegian by Anne
Born
(click here for more information
about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
A long long way by Sebastian Barry
Slow man by J. M. Coetzee
Extremely loud & incredibly close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The short day dying by Peter Hobbs
No country for old men by Cormac McCarthy
Shalimar the Clown : a novel by Salman Rushdie
2006
The master by Colm Tóibín (click
here for more information
about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
GraceLand by Chris Abani
Maps for lost lovers by Nadeem Aslam
Havoc, in its third year : a novel by Ronan Bennett
The closed circle by Jonathan Coe
An altered light by Jens Christian Grøndahl (translated from the Danish by
Anne Born)
The swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra (translated from the French by John
Cullen)
Breaking the tongue : a novel by Vyvyane Loh
Don't move by Margaret Mazzantini (translated from the Italian by John
Cullen)
The logogryph by Thomas Wharton
2005
The known world by Edward P. Jones (click
here for more
information about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
Gardening at night by Diane Awerbuck
The half brother by Lars Saabye Christensen
The
good doctor by Damon Galgut
Elle by Douglas Glover
Phantom pain by Arnon Grunberg (translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett)
The great fire by Shirley Hazzard
Willenbrock : a novel by Christoph Hein (translated from the German by Philip Boehm)
Deafening by Frances Itani
The fortress of solitude : a novel by Jonathan Lethem
2004
This
blinding absence of light by Tahar Ben Jelloun (translated from the
French by Linda Coverdale) (click here
for more information about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
The
book of illusions : a novel by Paul Auster
Any
human heart : a novel by William Boyd
Caramelo : or puro cuento : a novel by Sandra Cisneros
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
The White family by Maggie Gee
Balthasar's odyssey : a novel by Amin Maalouf
(translated from the French by Barbara Bray)
Family matters by Rohinton Mistry
Earth and ashes by Atiq Rahimi (translated
from the Dari by Erdag M.Göknar)
House of day, house of night by
Olga Tokarczuk (translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
2003
My
name is Red by Orhan Pamuk (translated from the Turkish by Erdag M
Göknar) (click here
for more information about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
The ash garden : a novel by Dennis Bock
Bitter fruit by Achmat Dangor
The royal physician's visit by Per Olov Enquist (translated from the Swedish
by Tiina Nunnelly)
The
corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The painter of birds by Lidia Jorge (translated from the Portuguese by Margaret
Jull Costa)
That they may face the rising sun
by John McGahern
Bel canto : a novel by Ann Patchett
2002
Atomised (or
The
elementary particles) by Michel Houellebecq (translated from the French
by Frank Wynne) (click
here
for more information about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
The
blind assassin by Margaret Atwood
True
history of the Kelly gang by Peter Carey
The
keepers of truth : a novel by Michael Collins
The
Last samurai by Helen DeWitt
The
years with Laura Díaz by Carlos Fuentes
Madame by Antoni Libera (translated
from the Polish by Agnieszka Kolakowska)
2001
No
great mischief by Alastair MacLeod (click here
for more information about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
The true history of paradise : a
novel by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
The love you promised me : a novel
by Silvia Molina (translated from the Spanish by David Unger)
Our
fathers by Andrew O'Hagan
The clay machine-gun by Viktor Pelevin
(tranlslated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield)
The
Blackwater lightship by Colm Tóibín
2000
Wide open by Nicola Barker (click
here
for more information about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
The
hours by Michael Cunningham
Trumpet by Jackie Kay
This
side of brightness : a novel by Colum McCann
Charming
Billy by Alice McDermott
Paradise
by Toni Morrison
I
married a communist by Philip Roth
1999
Ingenious
pain : a novel by Andrew Miller (click here
for more information about the book and the author
Shortlist:
Quarantine
by Jim Crace
Underworld
by Don DeLillo
The
ordinary seaman by Francisco Goldman
Enduring love : a novel by Ian McEwan
The wind-up bird chronicle by Haruki
Murakami (Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin)
The
Puttermesser papers by Cynthia Ozick
The
reader by Bernard Schlink (Translated from the German by Carol Brown
Janeway)
1998
The
land of green plums : a novel by Herta Müller (translated from
the German by Michael Hofmann) (click here
for more information about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
Alias
Grace by Margaret Atwood
Imaginings
of sand by Andre Brink
The counting house by David Dabydeen
The glade within the grove by David
Foster
Autobiography
of my mother by Jamaica Kincaid
Salt by Earl Lovelace
The
Pope's rhinoceros : a novel by Lawrence Norfolk
Last
orders by Graham Swift
The
Englishman's boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe
1997
A
heart so white by Javier Marías
(translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa) (click here
for more information about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
Reservation
blues by Sherman Alexie
Novel
without a name by Duong Thu Huong (translated from the Vietnamese by
Phan Huy Duong and Nina McPherson)
A tiler's afternoon by Lars Gustaffson
A
fine balance : a novel by Rohinton Mistry
Pereira declares : a testimony by Antonio Tabucchi (translated from the
Portuguese by Patrick Creagh)
The
good Negress by A.J. Verdelle
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
1996
Remembering
Babylon by David Malouf (click here
for more information about the book and the author)
Shortlist:
Ghosts
by John Banville
A
way in the world : a novel by V.S Naipaul
The
following story by Cees Nooteboom (translated from the Dutch by Ina
Rilke)
The
laws by Connie Palmen (translated from the Dutch by Richard Huijing)
The
Gospel according to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago (translated from
the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero
Away
by Jane Urquhart