Women dominate the shortlist for the International Dublin Literary Award.
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]