Dublin Literary Award 2024

Since 1996, the Dublin Literary Award has honoured excellence in world literature. Presented annually by Dublin City Council, the Award is one of the most significant literature prizes in the world and unique in that the books are nominated by libraries from cities around the world.

Updated September 12, 2024
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Solenoid
Cărtărescu, Mircea.
Paper Book
WINNER of the Dublin Literary Award 2024 and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2022 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by the New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, The Financial Times, Words Without Borders A highly-acclaimed master work of...
Birnam Wood
Catton, Eleanor
Paper Book
Birnam Wood is on the move ...A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in the South Island of New Zealand, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. This land offers an opportunity to Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will...
Haven
Donoghue, Emma
Paper Book
In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. In seventh...
If I survive you
Escoffery, Jonathan
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE 'Dazzling' GUARDIAN 'Blistering' THE TIMES 'A delight' DIANA EVANS 'Fiction written at the highest level' ANN PATCHETT ...
Old God's time
Barry, Sebastian
Paper Book
A hugely moving novel of memory, love, mystery andreckoning, from one of our most soulful living writers.
Praiseworthy : fiction
Wright, Alexis
Paper Book
**Winner, Stella Prize 2024** **Winner, Queensland Literary Awards, Fiction Book Award** **Winner, The James Tait Black Prize, Fiction 2024** **Shortlisted, The...
A minor chorus : a novel
Belcourt, Billy-Ray
Paper Book
An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him- the shape of the novel he yearns to write, an autobiography of his rural hometown, the answers to existential questions about family, love, and happiness. What ensues is a...
Ada's realm
Otoo, Sharon Dodua
Paper Book
"Set to be one of the best books of 2023" GQ Magazine"Soaring, spellbinding, utterly epic" MUSA OKWONGA"A time-travelling wonder of a read" PATERSON JOSEPH WHERE IS ADA?In a small village in West Africa, in what will one day become Ghana, Ada gives birth again, and...
Chain-Gang All-Stars
Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame
Paper Book
FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. FIGHT FOR LOVE. WELCOME TO THE KILLING GROUND. 'America's new Hunger Games' Sunday Times 'So good. This one is from the heart' Stephen King 'Brutal, thrilling, devastating and beautiful' The Times ...
An astronomer in love
Laurain, Antoine
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2024 SHORLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD VIKING AWARD FOR FICTION 2024 'Perfect for the poolside or sitting outside a café with a pastis and olives' The Times ...
Crooked plow
Vieira Junior, Itamar
Paper Book
The prize winning international bestseller - 800,000 copies sold in Brazil Shortlisted for The International Booker Prize 2024 Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 'I heard  our grandmother asking what we were doing.'"Say...
Day's end
Disher, Garry
Paper Book
Hirsch's rural beat is wide. Daybreak to day's end, dirt roads and dust. Every problem that besets small towns and isolated properties, from unlicensed driving to arson. In the time of the virus, Hirsch is seeing stresses heightened and social divisions cracking wide open. His own tolerance under...
Demon Copperhead
Kingsolver, Barbara
Paper Book
A special hardback edition of Demon Copperhead which includes an exclusive essay about Barbara Kingsolver's inspiration from Charles Dickens.
Feast
O'Grady, Emily
Paper Book
A compelling novel of three women and their dark secrets from the award-winning author of The Yellow House.

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