The 2015
literary award season is winding down, but a 2016 list has already made an
appearance. The longlist for the 2016 International
Dublin Literary Award (formerly the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award) was
announced earlier this week. At €100,000,
this is the world’s most valuable annual literary prize.
The Award, presented
annually for a novel written in English or translated into English, aims to
promote excellence in world literature. Nominations
are submitted by library systems in major cities throughout the world; to be
eligible for the 2016 prize, books must be of high literary merit and must have
been first published in English or in English translation in 2014.
Canadians on the 2016
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist
Ten
Canadian novels appear on the longlist; those titles are
Sweetland by Michael Crummey
Outline by Rachel Cusk
The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Us Conductors by Sean Michaels
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O’Neill
Who by Fire by Fred Stenson
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Will Starling by Ian Weir
The Lobster Kings by Alexi Zentner
Libraries
in Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Ottawa, Saint John, St. John’s Sydney, Toronto
and Winnipeg nominated books for the 2016 award. To see what books were nominated by which
libraries, check out http://www.dublinliteraryaward.ie/libraries-2016/.
Two
Canadians have won the prize in the past:
Alistair MacLeod for No Great
Mischief in 2002 and Rawi Hage for De
Niro’s Game in 2008.
Other Nominees
For the
complete longlist and information about each book, visit http://www.dublinliteraryaward.ie/nominees/.
It looks like a great list to peruse when looking for your next read.
I have read
15 of the titles from this list. If I
have not already posted reviews of them, I will do so in the next few weeks.
Sweetland by Michael Crummy (reviewed on November 18)
All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (reviewed on September
22)
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (reviewed on October 20)
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey (reviewed on August 22)
Natchez Burning by Greg Iles
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce (reviewed on
September 13)
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch (reviewed on
September 5)
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
Us Conductors by Sean Michaels
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews (reviewed on July 20)
Nora Webster by Colm Tóibin
Small Blessings by Martha Woodroof
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (reviewed on November 26)
A shortlist,
up to a maximum of ten titles, chosen by judges will be announced in April, and
the winner will be announced in June.
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