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Longlist for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award is Revealed

 

Photo Chris Bellew / Fennell Photography.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Emma Blain, Chief Executive Officer, Richard Shakespeare, City Librarian, Mairead Owens and Professor Chris Morash, Chair of the Judging Panel recently launched the longlist of the 2025 Dublin Literary Award at the Mansion House.

Celebrating 30 years of excellence in world literature this year, the Dublin Literary Award is the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction published in English, worth €100,000 to the winner.

Novels by 7 Irish authors are among the 71 books nominated by 83 libraries around the world for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award, which is sponsored by Dublin City Council.

The longlist spans 34 countries in Africa, Europe, Asia, the US, Canada, South America, Australia, and New Zealand, featuring 26 novels in translation and 16 debut novels. If the winning book is translated to English, the author receives €75,000 and the translator receives €25,000. Some of the original languages of translated books include Korean, Farsi, Icelandic and Slovenian.

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