International DUBLIN Award 2017 shortlist
Wednesday, Apr 12, 2017 at 5:03pmThe shortlist for this year's International DUBLIN Literary Award (formerly known as the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award) has been revealed.
The award honours any book from across the world that has been written in or translated to English. It comes with a €100,000 prize (approximately $141K Canadian), sponsored entirely by the City of Dublin, Ireland, which makes it one of the richest literary prizes in the world.
The winner will be announced on June 21, 2017, and the full shortlist can be found after the jump...
• A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa (Angolan). Translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn.
• Confession of the Lioness by Mia Couto (Mozambican). Translated from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw.
• The Green Road by Anne Enright (Irish)
• The Prophets of Eternal Fjord by Kim Leine (Danish/Norwegian). Translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken.
• The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli (Mexican). Translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney.
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Vietnamese/American)
• Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta (Nigerian-American)
• A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk (Turkish). Translated from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap.
• A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler (Austrian). Translated from the German by Charlotte Collins.
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (American)
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