Keegan, Howard and Tóibín make Dublin Literary Award longlist

The Dublin Literary Award longlist has been revealed, with Irish authors Claire Keegan, Catherine Ryan Howard and Colm Tóibín all in the running for the €100,000 (£87,800) prize. 

Rooney Prize-winning Keegan is up for her novel Small Things Like These (Faber & Faber), as is Howard’s 56 days (Corvus. Tóibín – who previously won the Dublin Literary Award in 2006 – has been nominated for The Magician (Viking). 

Seven further UK authors have made the 70-strong longlist, including Sarah Hall for Burntcoat (Faber), Graeme Macrae Burnet for Case Study (Saraband), Monica Ali for Love Marriage (Scribner), Emma Musty for The Bones of Barry Knight (Legend Press), Anna Mazzola for The Clockwork Girl (Canongate), Elif Shafak for The Island of Missing Trees (Viking) and Douglas Stuart for Young Mungo (Picador).  

The longlist also features 29 novels in translation, with works nominated by 84 libraries from 31 countries across Africa, Europe, Asia, the US, Canada, South America, Australia, and New Zealand. In total, 14 are debut novels. If the winning book has been translated, the author receives €75,000 and the translator receives €25,000.

Major names from around the world include Geetanjali Shree’s, for her International Booker Prize-winning Tomb of Sand (Tilted Axis Press), translated by Daisy Rockwell and Giller Prize-winning Omar El-Akkad, for his novel What Strange Paradise (Alfred A. Knopf). 

The shortlist will be unveiled on 28th March and the winner will be announced by Lord Mayor of Dublin, councillor Caroline Conroy, on 25th May 2023, as part of the International Literature Festival Dublin. 

Announcing the longlist, councillor Caroline Conroy said: “This year’s Dublin Literary Award longlist is a fascinating chain of stories unifying readers across cultures and countries, more relevant now than ever before. I encourage you to drop into your local library to explore the list over the next few months, it not only rewards the reader but also has the power to transform you too.”

The 70 longlisted titles are:

• 56 Days Catherine by Ryan Howard (Corvus)
• 912 Batu Road by Viji Krishnamoorthy (Clarity Publishing) 
• A Particular Madness by Sheldon Russell (Cennan Books of Cynren Press)
• After Story by Larissa Behrendt (University of Queensland Press)
• All’s Well by Mona Awad (Marysue Rucci Books/Scribner)
• An Unusual Grief by Yewande Omotoso (Cassava Republic Press)
• Bad Girls by Camila Sosa Villada, translated by Kit Maude (Other Press)
• Bitter Orange Tree by Jokha Alharthi, translated by Marilyn Booth (Scribner) Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down (Text Publishing)
• Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down (Text Publishing)
• Bolla by Pajtim Statovci, translated by David Hackston (Faber Books)
• Bone Memories by Sally Piper (University of Queensland Press)
• Brisbane by Eugene Vodolazkin translated by Marian Schwartz (Plough Publishing House)
• Burntcoat by Sarah Hall (Faber Books)
• Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Saraband)
• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (Scribner) 
• Cold Enough For Snow by Jessica Au (Giramondo Publishing)
• Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan (Harper Voyager)
• Devotion by Hannah Kent (Pan Macmillan) 
• Em by Kim Thúy, translated by Sheila Fischman(Seven Stories Press)
• Falling is like Flying by Manon Uphoff, translated by Sam Garrett (Pushkin Press) 
• Fight Night by Miriam Toews (Knopf Canada)
• Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang (Flatiron Books)
• Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo (Chatto & Windus/Vintage)
• Grand Hotel Europa by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, translated by Michele Hutchison (4th Estate) 
• How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu (William Morrow) 
• Iron Curtain: A Love Story by Vesna Goldsworthy (Chatto & Windus)
• Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka (Huia Publishers)
• Late Summer by Luiz Ruffato, translated by Julia Sanches (Other Press)
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday) 
• Loose Ties by Yara Nakahanda Monteiro, translated by Sandra Tamele (Paivapo Publishers)
• Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park, translated by Anton Hur (Tilted Axis Press) 
• Love Marriage by Monica Ali (Scribner) 
• Love Novel by Ivana Sajko, translated by Mima Simić (V & Q Books) 
• Lovelier, Lonelier by Daryl Qilin Yam (Epigram Books)
• Magma by Thóra Hjörleifsdóttir, translated by Meg Matich )Black Cat / Grove Press)
• Marzahn, Mon Amour by Katja Oskamp, translated by Jo Heinrich (Peirene Press) 
• Matrix by Lauren Groff (Penguin Random House)
• Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher (Titan Books)
• Of Fangs and Talons by Nicolas Mathieu, translated by Sam Taylor (Sceptre/Hodder & Stoughton)
• Open Your Heart by Alexie Morin, translated by Aimee Wall (Véhicule Press)
• Paradais by Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
• Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani (Granta Publishing) 
• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel (HarperCollins)
• She’s a killer by Kirsten McDougall (Te Herenga Waka University Press) 
• Silent Winds, Dry Seas by Vinod Busjeet (Knopf Doubleday)
• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Faber & Faber) 
• Song for the Missing by Pierre Jarawan, translated by Elisabeth Lauffer (World Editions) 
• Sons of the People: The Mamluk Triology by Reem Bassiouney, translated by Roger Allen (Syracuse University Press) 
• The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier, translated by Adriana Hunter (Other Press)
• The Antarctica of Love by Sara Stridsberg, translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner (Mac Lehose Press)
• The Bones of Barry Knight by Emma Musty (Legend Press)
• The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (Canongate Books) 
• The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola (Orion Publishing) 
• The Forests by Sandrine Collette, translated by Alison Anderson (Europa Editions UK)
• The Good Women of Safe Harbour by Bobbi French (Harper Avenue)
• The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak (Viking/Penguin) 
• The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (Viking/Penguin)
• The Magician by Colm Tóibín (Viking/Penguin) 
• The Masterpiece by Ana Schnabl, translated by David Limon (Istros Books) 
• The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard, trnalsted by Martin Aitken (Harvill Secker) 
• The Sentence; A Novel by Louise Erdrich (Harper Collins) 
• The Trees: A Novel by Percival Everett (Graywolf Press) 
• The White Bathing Hut by Thorvald Steen, translated by James Anderson (Seagull Books)
• The Wonders by Elena Medel, translated by Lizzie Davis and Thomas Bunstead (Pushkin Press)
• Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell (Tilted Axis Press)
• What Strange Paradise by Omar El-Akkad (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Where You come from by Saša Stanišić, translated by Saša Stanišić (Jonathan Cape)
• Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart (Picador)