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    Women dominate the shortlist for the International Dublin Literary Award.

    Katie Yee
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    September 3, 2020, 2:08pm

    The International Dublin Literary Award is the world’s biggest annual prize for a single work of fiction published in English. The honor comes with a whopping €100,000. Mark your calendars: the winner will be announced on October 22. Congratulations to this year’s finalists!

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    International Dublin Literary Award Shortlist

    Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

    Anna Burns, Milkman

    Négar Djavadi, tr. Tina Kover, Disoriental

    Esi Edugyan, Washington Black

    Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

    Édouard Louis, tr. Lorin Stein, History of Violence

    Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

    Tommy Orange, There There

    Anuradha Roy, All the Lives We Never Lived

    Olga Tokarczuk, tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

     

    [h/t The Irish Times]

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