2016 Dublin Literary Award

One of the world’s richest literary prizes, the Dublin Literary Award (formerly known as the “IMPAC”) has just announced the one hundred and sixty books of their longlist for the 2016 award. Books are nominated for the Award by invited public libraries in cities throughout the world, based on their “high literary merit”. With a prize of €100,000 for the author of the winning book, or in the case of a translation €75,000 to the author and €25,000 to the translator it is a hotly sought after prize.

Works must be available in English and this year we have nineteen different languages being represented with fifty-three of the one hundred and sixty books being translated from another language.

Books on the list that I have reviewed here previously are:

Tiger Milk - Stefanie de Velasco – translated from German by Tim Mohr               

1914 - Jean Echenoz – translated from French by Linda Coverdale            

The End of Days - Jenny Erpenbeck – translated from German by Susan Bernofsky          

The Dead Lake - Hamid Ismailov – translated from Russian by Andrew Bromfield     
F - Daniel Kehlmann - translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway         

Our Lady of the Nile – Scholastique Mukasonga – translated from French by Melanie Mauthner               

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage – Haruki Murakami – translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel

Talking to Ourselves - Andrés Neuman – translated from Spanish by Nick Caistor & Lorenza Garcia

The Giraffe’s Neck – Judith Schalansky – translated from German by Shaun Whiteside  

Look Who’s Back – Timur Vermes – translated from German by Jamie Bulloch   

For a full listing of all one hundred and sixty books go to http://www.dublinliteraryaward.ie/nominees/