International Dublin Literary Award: Shortlist

International Dublin Literary Award 2016: Shortlist

• Outlaws  by Javier Cercas (Spanish) Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
• Academy Street by Mary Costello (Irish) First Novel
• Your Fathers, Where Are They? And The Prophets, Do They Live Forever? by Dave Eggers (American)
• The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck (German) Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (Jamaican)
• Diary of the Fall by Michel Laub (Brazilian) Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
• Our Lady of the Nile  by Scholastique Mukasonga (Rwandan) First Novel. Translated from French by Melanie Mauthner
• Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill (American)
• Lila by Marilynne Robinson (American)
• Family Life  by Akhil Sharma (Indian-American)

Award Winner  -  9th June

International Dublin Literary Award