The newsletter of the INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD FICTION MATTERS

No.22 – February 2016 The Complete list of eligible titles 2016

SHORTLIST ANNOUNCEment 12 April WINNER ANNOUNCEment 9 June www.dublinliteraryaward.ie Harvest by Jim Crace is the winner of the 20th Award!

The 2015 Winner Announcement took place in the Round Room of the Mansion House, Dublin on 17th June 2015

Left to Right; Margaret Hayes, Dublin City Librarian; Jim Crace, winner of the 2015 award; Lord Mayor of Dublin and Patron of the Award, Christy Burke; Owen Keegan, Chief Executive, Dublin City Council.

The International DUBLIN Literary Award (formerly IMPAC Dublin) is presented annually for a novel written in English or translated into English. The award aims to promote excellence in world literature and is sponsored by Dublin City Council, the municipal government of Dublin. The award is now in its 21st year. Nominations are submitted by library systems in major cities throughout the world.

2 www.dublinliteraryaward.ie Kate Harvey from Picador – publishers of Harvest – is presented with a Jane Alger, Director, Dublin UNESCO City Dublin Crystal Bowl by Owen Keegan, Chief Executive, Dublin City Council, with of Literature, Master of Ceremonies. Jim Crace, right.

Jim Crace, pictured with Alessandra Mariani, Biblioteca Margaret Hayes, Dublin City Librarian, pictured here with Nazionale di Roma, Italy, as she is presented with a scroll by the Kantawan Magkunthod, winner of the Thai Young Writers Lord Mayor, Christy Burke, in recognition of library participation competition, organised by the Irish Embassy in Malaysia. worldwide.

Congratulations to the nominators of Harvest, Universitätsbibliothek Bern, Switzerland and LeRoy Collins Leon County Public Library System, Tallahassee, USA.

Left to Right: Gabriela Scherrer Bern, Nick Landolt Bern, Donna Cirenza Tallahassee.

“We were delighted that Harvest was the “This was so much fun for me and I am “Harvest details the unravelling of life as winner of the 2015 award. The novel struck over the moon that our nomination won. changes creep or rush upon us. This book us as very imaginative, roaming widely To hear the author thank the library in led me to read Jim Crace’s previous novels. across epochs and cultures. We have been his speech was exciting.” I think his keen, observant eye gives nominating novels for more than 10 years readers wonderful books.” and are looking forward to participating in the process again.”

www.dublinliteraryaward.ie 3 The launch of the 2016 International DUBLIN Literary Award, Dublin City Library and Archive, 9th November 2015

Margaret Hayes, left, Dublin City Librarian and Ardmhéara, Críona Ní Dhalaigh, Patron, celebrate Dublin City Council’s sole sponsorship of the award and change of name to The International DUBLIN Literary Award

Irish authors nominated for the 2016 award attend the launch. Left to Right Liz Nugent, Mary Costello, Sebastian Barry, Joseph O’Connor, Audrey Magee and Eibhear Walshe. The longlist also includes Colm Tóibín.

Members of the 2016 Judging Panel Left to Right Juan Pablo Villalobos, Carlo Gébler, Ian Sansom, Meaghan Delahunt, Judge Eugene Sullivan, non-voting chair and Margaret Hayes, Dublin City Librarian. The 2016 judging panel also includes Iglika Vassileva.

4 www.dublinliteraryaward.ie The King journalist, Jessica Keith, is assigned to Song of the Shank 2016 ELIGIBLE TITLES by Kader Abdolah cover the mysterious murder. Something by Jeffery Renard Allen Translated from the Dutch by unexpected happens when she meets a NOMINATED BY: Nancy Forest-Flier British numerologist, Professor Aaron Barone at a seminar in the University of Pikes Peak Library District, NOMINATED BY: London. They suddenly become fugitives Colorado Springs, USA De Bibliotheek Eindhoven, when another murder takes place at his At the heart of The Netherlands home in Hampstead. The church is trying to this remarkable cover up the murder to keep their interests novel is Thomas It is the nineteenth guarded. But the utmost of all secrets Greene Wiggins, century and the cannot be kept forever. a nineteenth- kingdom of Persia century slave is at a turning Nazehran Jose Ahmad is a Malaysian and improbable point. When a author born in Kelantan in 1980. He has musical genius young King, Shah published nine books, which include three who performed Naser, takes to novels in Malay and one novel translated under the name the throne he to English. His five children’s books have Blind Tom. inherits a medieval, been reprinted several times and received Song of the Shank enchanted world. good reviews from Malaysian readers. opens in 1866 as Tom and his guardian But beyond the The Michelangelo Code is his first English- struggle to adjust to their fashionable court, the greater translation novel with AuthorHouse UK. apartment in the city in the aftermath forces of colonisation and industrialisation He now lives in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. of riots that had driven them away a few close in. The Shah’s grand vizier sees only years before. But soon a stranger arrives one solution – to open up to the outside An Unnecessary Woman who intends to reunite Tom with his now- world, and to bring Persia into modernity. by Rabih Alameddine liberated mother. But the Shah’s mother fiercely opposes the As the novel ranges from Tom’s vizier’s reforms and sets about poisoning NOMINATED BY: boyhood to the heights of his performing her son’s mind against his advisor. The Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton career, the inscrutable savant is buffeted with bloody battles, intrigue and County, USA by opportunistic teachers and crooked extraordinary characters, The King brings Cleveland Public Library, USA managers, crackpot healers and militant a historical moment brilliantly to life. Los Angeles Public Library, USA prophets. Jeffery Renard Allen blends Reading as fairy tale and shedding light on Aaliya Sohbi history and fantastical invention to bring to a pivotal period in history. lives alone in her life a radical cipher, a man who profoundly Kader Abdolah was born in Iran in 1954. Beirut apartment, changes all who encounter him. In1988, at the invitation of the United surrounded by Jeffery Renard Allen is the author of Nations, he arrived in the Netherlands as stockpiles of books. the novel Rails Under My Back, the story a political refugee. Kader Abdolah now Godless, fatherless, collection Holding Pattern, and two writes in Dutch and is the author of several childless, and collections of poetry. Raised in Chicago novels, including My Father’s Notebook and divorced, Aaliya and now living in New York, he teaches at two collections of short stories, as well as is her family’s Queens College and in the writing program works of non-fiction. “unnecessary at the New School. appendage.” Every The Michelangelo Code year, she translates The Zone of Interest by Nazehran Jose Ahmad a new favourite book into Arabic, then stows it away. The thirty-seven books that by Martin Amis Translated from the Malay by Anis Mansor Aaliya has translated over her lifetime have NOMINATED BY: NOMINATED BY: never been read – by anyone. The State Library of South The National Library of Malaysia, In this breathtaking portrait of Australia, Adelaide Kuala Lumpur a reclusive woman’s late-life crisis, Winnipeg Public Library, Canada readers follow Aaliya’s digressive mind When the as it ricochets across visions of past There was an old chief prefect of and present Beirut. Colorful musings on story about a king archives is found literature, philosophy, and art are invaded who asked his mysteriously by memories of the Lebanese Civil War and favourite wizard murdered in the Aaliya’s own volatile past. As she tries to to create a magic Vatican Secret overcome her aging body and spontaneous mirror. This mirror Archives, it emotional upwellings, Aaliya is faced with didn’t show you unleashes a secret an unthinkable disaster that threatens to your reflection. that has been safely shatter the little life she has left. Instead, it showed buried for two you your soul – it thousand years. But Rabih Alameddine is the acclaimed author showed you who a question arises of the novels An Unnecessary Woman, The you really were. from the dead: the victim was a follower of Hakawati; I, The Divine; Koolaids; and the But the king couldn’t look into the mirror the long-lost religious group, the Cathars, short story collection, The Perv. He divides without turning away, and nor could his a group of Medieval Christians who believe his time between Beirut and San Francisco courtiers. No one could. they were the heirs of the original teaching and was a 2002 Guggenheim Fellow. what happens when we discover who of Jesus. A renowned Daily Telegraph we really are? And how do we come to

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Independent F in English,andwas longlisted for the Neck isherfirst novel to bepublished a freelance writer inBerlin.TheGiraffe’s and communication designandworks as East Germany. Shestudied arthistory Judith Schalanskywas bornintheformer adapt orshecannot survive. her most fundamental lesson: shemust jeopardy andtheLohmarkisforced to face opportunities, theschool’s future isin people move W for indulging in‘favourites’. However, as specimens andscorning hercolleagues fittest: classifying herpupilsasbiological Lohmark views education assurvival ofthe devotee ofDarwin’s evolution principle, Germany Zentral-u. LandesbibliothekBerlin, Shaun Whiteside Translated from theGermanby by JudithSchalansky The Giraffe’s Neck Biblioteca MunicipaldeOeiras, P by DanielHahn Translated from thePortuguese by P Nowhere People NOMINATED BY NOMINATED BY sequence. Heisawinnerofscience This skillisquickly regulated, aulo Scott oreign FictionPrize2015. est insearch of work and . 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Atlantic and other The Yorker, The New in of Delhi, he lives A native publications. professor an assistant City and is York New Newark. University, of English at Rutgers ysterious Ailment The Mysterious of Rupi Baskey Shekhar by Hansda Swvendra is the story of the Baskeys – the patriarch – the patriarch of the Baskeys is the story irrepressible Somai; his alcoholic, devout, Putki’s Putki; Khorda, daughter upright husband, and their sons Sido and the Rupi. Equally, wife Doso; and Sido’s the Santhan is about Kadamdihi, novel village in Jharkhand in which the Baskeys F live. of the and small dramas large the various as the village out, even play lives Baskey’s with them, them on, finds fault cheers the of all, enjoys them and, most for prays provide. they spectacle born and Shekhar was Hansda Sowvendra and articles in Jharkhand. His stories lives in many publications appeared have The Asian Age, including: The Statesman, and The Times of Good Housekeeping Baskey Rupi of Ailment India. The Mysterious novel. is his first ibrary, Library, Centre India International Delhi New her. ruin around ishra e meet the Mishra ine Chilean Nine Chilean with women life divergent a – from stories lesbian teenage find to struggling a to acceptance confronting woman of the loneliness age – come old to together about their talk W in Delhi in family eight- 1978, where and Ajay year-old brother his older cricket Birju play in the streets, the for waiting when their day will plane tickets and and they arrive their mother can : : alestine conflict. But despite their But despite conflict. alestine D BY ED NOMINAT D BY ED NOMINAT Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas / El Daniel Cosío Villegas Biblioteca City A.C., Mexico de México Colegio on both sides of the Atlantic as a public as a public the Atlantic sides of on both conservative a broadly with intellectual children. two with He is married vision. 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Family Life Life Family by Akhil Sharma fly across the world and join their father and join their father the world across fly ibrary, Library, Centre India International Delhi New USA Public Library, Jacksonville aulo aulo epublic orto orto eichl, condemned eichl, condemned aulo gives her a gives aulo Set in the twilight of the years Czechoslovak communist from Notes regime, tells Underground of Jan the story R by a menial life to alleged his father’s Betka, of and crime, the girl who offers Driving home, Driving P law student at a figure passes the road. the side of girl The indigenous in the heavy stands as if waiting rain, something. for P family’s her lift to camp. roadside with sudden : oger Scruton Through his encounter with the his encounter Through uarani Guarani dispossessed rich kids and aulo’s D BY ED NOMINAT him education, opportunity, and love, and love, opportunity, him education, commit to refuses but who mysteriously herself. and the underground culture underground that understand to Jan comes church, it, elude those who pursue truth will always expect least when they only and will come with devastating as in this case, it, often, tragic its to moves As the story results. enters system the communist conclusion at freedom Jan enjoys death throes. its that he has lost understand to only last, made freedom have that would the love meaningful. is the author of 40 books, Scruton Roger of fiction, and works including five known He is widely operas. two composed Alegre, in southern Brazil, and grew up in and grew in southern Brazil, Alegre, neighbourhood. He has class a working of four of fiction and books published four English. from He also translates poetry. shifts in the characters’ lives, this novel novel this lives, in the characters’ shifts of love, telling story: whole in the takes of São it spans the worlds and family, loss P One man highways. Brazil’s Indians along life squatter’s an immigrant into escapes performance another’s in London, while on fame unexpected to activism leads YouTube. in the making, about our classic passionate and the gut, it is a raw from written a home. need for born in 1966 in P was Scott Paulo Notes from Underground Underground from Notes by R Czech R Třinec, knihovna Městská rau rau ortugal A strict A strict Adaption is everything, something F Lohmark is well of as the aware at teacher biology Darwin the Charles High School in a backwater country East of the former Germany. : : . Campbell Award for Best Best for Award . 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ose yle has yle ose escaped. ose escaped. “The hour has speak of to come times. It troubled of spoke is time we Thus Skullyville.” begins House of Cedar, R Purple of telling Goode’s when she the year in Indian eleven was Oklahoma. country, kullyville, S : : okoni and her grandfather and her grandfather okoni www.dublinliteraryaward.ie D BY ED NOMINAT D BY ED NOMINAT House of Purple Cedar Cedar Purple House of by Tim Tingle the boundaries between history, fantasy fantasy history, between the boundaries but extensively travelled He has and reality. in London. lives currently y Puny Sorrows All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews ibrary, Canada Canada Public Library, Edmonton Canada Public Library Ottawa Canada Public Library, Toronto Canada Winnipeg Public Library SA U Public Library, Cleveland ibraries, USA of Libraries, Oklahoma Department was community, Choctaw a once-thriving culminating by land-grabbers, destroyed 1896, Eve, Year’s on New in the arson Girls. Twenty for Hope Academy of New girls died, but R Choctaw of her by the presence She is blessed P grandmother who elders both respected Amafo, the Soon after ways. the old understand in front Amafo sheriff beats the white fire, of seeking instead Yet, of the townspeople. the follows her grandfather vengeance, this And so unwinds path of forgiveness. and mysticism, Chotaw of mystery, tale deep wisdom. , a member of the Choctaw Tim Tingle Nation of Oklahoma, is a popular presenter across festivals and folklore at storytelling P Chief Gregory Choctaw America. his to previous by Tingle a story requested at the of the Nation Address Annual State 2002 to Gathering from Labor Day Choctaw the present. oodside, antasy Award- antasy Born in 1941, Born is Tumulty Eileen by her Irish raised parents immigrant in W an Queens, in where apartment the mood swings heartbreak between and hilarity, depending on how has much alcohol Deep in the heart of history’s infamous most concentration a man lies camp, His dreaming. name is Shomer, the and before a pulp he was war fiction author. the escape to Now, of life reality brutal orld F orld ileen age, Eileen an early rom : olf ekes out a miserable existence as a existence out a miserable olf ekes ileen places places Eileen by this longing, Driven D BY ED NOMINAT been consumed. 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Lavie Tidhar is the W widely- winning author of the controversial, Osama, novel history alternate translated which straddle and of many other works homer spends his nights in Auschwitz, Shomer spends his nights a where – a world imagining another world only known now dictator former disgraced as W ibraries, Ireland Cork City Libraries, The heart of this story moving Tom to belongs – a man Ryder whose expectations and the future for about assumptions strength his own are and power and persistently devastatingly undermined by the : : urray, hiding from hiding from ort McMurray, red Stenson red The novel moves into the present with the present into moves The novel D BY ED NOMINAT D BY ED NOMINAT SA U Public Library, Milwaukee USA Springfield, Library, Lincoln We Are Not Ourselves Not Ourselves Are We Thomas by Matthew his guilt in the local casino. Bill pushes casino. his guilt in the local a crisis in conscience himself towards with a Native he has a relationship through by is threatened whose community woman the actions of his company. seventh ’s Stenson is Fred Fire Who by book overall. book of fiction and fifteenth 140 over for scripts He has also written a and videos. He writes films produced Views Alberta for humour column regular in the on a farm raised Magazine. He was Chief Mountain north of foothills Alberta Alberta. in Cochrane, and lives ibrary, Canada Public Library, Edmonton of a sour gas plant on the border arrival in the early farm of his southern Alberta the plant poison from 1960s. The emissions the relationships but his livestock not only with especially most he has with his family, Ella. his wife, son, Bill, who reacts of Tom’s the story by rising disappointments his father’s to of an oil the managerial ranks through in F company Who By Fire Fire Who By by F On a Day Like This, and Like , On a Day Seven Years the short-story , and Landscape Unformed In Strange and Flying We’re collections . His prize- Stories and Other Gardens into been translated have winning books in He lives than thirty languages. more Switzerland. 36 2016 ELIGIBLE TITLES ambiguity, making heroneofthemost possessed butalsoafigure ofgreat moral changes, sheseemsbothfiercely self- again. Asthedynamicoffamily glimmer ofhopeandaway ofstarting slowly, through thegiftofmusic and thepower offriendship, shefindsa which willliftherbeyond them. circumstances, andwaiting for anychance at timeskind,butsheistrapped byher Tulsa City-County Library, USA Milwaukee PublicLibrary, USA Zentralbibliothek Zürich,Switzerland Literature, Moscow, Russia M.Rudomino State Library for F Christchurch CityLibraries, New Zealand www.dublinliteraryaward.ie by ColmTóibín Nora Webster Low: ALife . Shelives inToronto. Voth Kindness, TheFlying Troutmans, and Irma Luck, ABoy of GoodBreeding, AComplicated bestselling novels: of MyAmazing Summer Miriam Toews istheauthoroffive previous her life. Yoli faces themost terrifying decisionof situation becomes ever more complicated, to “health”intime?Doesitmatter? Asthe international tour. Canshebenursed back the openingofherhighly anticipated a shock:sheisthree weeks away from and herown heartfrom breaking. hating her, hersister from killingherself kids andmotherhappy, herexes from through life struggling to keep herteenage mess, wickedly funnyeven asshestumbles her older sister alive. Yoli isabeguiling true love: shedesperately wants to keep NOMINATED BY , andonework ofnon-fiction,Swing But Elf’s latest suicideattempt is : and impatient, at timesdifficult fiercely intelligent, her husband.Sheis after thedeathof to rebuild herlife four children, trying looking after her in asmalltown, W in Ireland. Nora It isthelate 1960s she triesto find the wrong menas broke, sleeping with Yolandi, divorced, she wants to die. happily married: glamorous, wealthy, renowned pianist, Elfrieda, aworld- and loving sisters. and Yoli, two smart You won’t forget Elf ebster isliving oreign Jamie Bulloch Translated from theGermanby by TimurVermes Look Who’s Back Translated from theDutch by David Colmer by DimitriVerhulst Christ’s Entryinto Brussels stories, Mothers. andSons for theBooker Prize,andacollection of The Master, bothofwhichwere shortlisted including TheBlackwater Lightship and He istheauthoroffive othernovels, Colm Tóibín was borninIreland in1955. insightful, always tender anddeeply true. years thatfollow isharrowing, piercingly fiction. memorable heroines incontemporary De BibliotheekUtrecht, TheNetherlands The Netherlands The Libraries ofTheHague, The Netherlands Openbare BibliotheekAmsterdam, Openbare BibliotheekBrugge,Belgium receive alot ofcritical praise. books are widely translated inEurope and was translated into Englishin2003.Allhis novels, including Problemski Hotel which stories, avolume ofpoetryandseveral is theauthorofacollection ofshort Born inBelgium in1972,DimitriVerhulst Coming… never been anicer timeto have aSecond near, thewhole citybrightens up–there’s depravity ofthecrime.Asdate draws and forgive enmasse, nomatter the communities gathertogether to confess Neighbours resolve ancientfeuds and Aramaic, it’s practically the same,right?). as Christ’s Aramaic interpreter (Arabic, girl intheasylum seekers’ centre to act receive Christ. 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Hehaswritten Ian Weir isanaward-winning playwright, fiction like noneother. steeped inscientificlore, laced with dark humour, WillStarlingishistorical London’s darkstreets. upon thelivingandofuncanny sightingsin rumours beginto spread ofexperiments London’s risingsurgical stars. Wild Dionysus Atherton, thebrightest of NOMINATED BY rancisco Chronicle. SmallBlessings isher ydney, Canada ashington P egional Library oodroof : adio F ose to theirhomefor eature Bureau. Her managing his campus bookstore, shelves atthe the Shakespeare his days browsing town, hespends in asleepy college English professor half-fulfilled life. 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Butfor the the bountyof years, blessed with for three hundred Loosewood Island has lived on The Kingsfamily oody 2016 ELIGIBLE TITLES 39 www.dublinliteraryaward.ie edro Coutinho, edro ortugal for the past 30 years. 30 years. the past ortugal for eview. eview. onroe’s investigations lead him lead investigations As Monroe’s ortuguese businessman P businessman ortuguese best of the best. But he has a double-sided double-sided he has a But the best. of best investigate to called when he’s And secret. of well-connected slaying the brutal P it’s not just the murder case that will case the murder not just it’s too. identity, his own – but unravel of shady political world a torrid deep into the details violence, and sexual corruption his trigger memories from of the case – memories he Colorado in rural childhood hide. to hard, and worked far, has travelled but York in New born was Zimler Richard in P has lived recently most six novels, He has written novels Anagrams. 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Meaghan Delahunt was born in Carlo Gébler was born in Dublin in Ian Sansom is a novelist, critic and Melbourne and lives in Edinburgh. She is 1954. He lives outside Enniskillen, Co. academic. He is the author of 13 works of the author of novels, In the Blue House, The Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. He is the fiction and non-fiction, including The Truth Red Book and To the Island. Her latest book author of several novels including A Good About Babies, Ring Road and the Mobile is Greta Garbo’s Feet & Other Stories (2015). Day for A Dog and The Dead Eight shortlisted Library series of novels. His most recent Awards for her work include the Flamingo/ for the Kerry Irish Fiction Prize, the short book is Death in Devon Harper Collins, HQ Australian Short Story Prize (1997), a story collection W9 & Other Lives, works of (2015), book no.3 in his 44-book County regional Commonwealth Prize, a Saltire non-fiction including the narrative history, Guides series of novels. He writes for The Book Award and a nomination for the The Siege of Derry and the memoir The Guardian, The London Review of Books, Orange Prize. She teaches Creative Writing Projectionist, The Story of Ernest Gébler. He The New Statesman and The Spectator. part-time at the University of Stirling has also written novels for children as well He is currently a Professor in the and is an Arts & Culture editor for as plays for radio and the stage, including Department of English and Comparative www.bellacaledonia.com 10 Rounds, which was short-listed for Literary Studies at the University the Ewart-Biggs Prize. He is a member of Warwick. Photo by Anna Reid of Aosdána. Photo by Ian Sansom Photo by Bobbie Hanvey

Hon. Eugene R. Sullivan, non-voting Iglika Vassileva is the acclaimed Juan Pablo Villalobos was born chair of the judging panel, is a former Chief translator of James Joyce’s Ulysses, of in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1973. He’s Judge of a US Court of Appeals and brings almost all novels by Virginia Woolf, the the author of Down the Rabbit Hole a wealth of experience from sixteen years prose of Walt Whitman, John Banville, John shortlisted for The Guardian First Book on the bench. His first novel, The Majority McGahern and other distinguished writers. Award, Quesadillas and I’ll Sell You a Rules, was published in 2005. The second Her translations of Ulysses, The Waves and Dog to be published in English in 2016. novel of his political thriller trilogy, The To the Lighthouse were met with acclaim His novels have been translated into Report to the Judiciary, was published in by literary critics and reading public alike. fifteen languages. He writes for several 2008. A Vietnam Veteran and West Pointer, The recipient of numerous prizes, Iglika publications, including Granta, Letras he was inducted into the U.S Army Ranger Vassileva was awarded the Prize of the Libres, Gatopardo and English Pen’s Hall of Fame. When not recalled to the Union of Bulgarian Translators four times, Blog, and translates Brazilian literature Federal Bench, Judge Sullivan is a partner the Prize of the Ministry of Culture and into Spanish. He lived in Barcelona for in a Washington law firm. the “Hristo G. Danov” National Prize several years, then moved to Brazil, and Photo by Jason Clarke for Literary Translation twice and the is now back in Spain. He is married with Sofia City Prize for Achievements in the two Mexican-Brazilian-Catalan children. field of Literature. She teaches literary Photo by Renato Parada translation at Sofia University. Photo by Mishka

www.dublinliteraryaward.ie 41 “Since its inception this Award has made a fantastic contribution to the literary life of Dublin and brings significant benefits to the City. Now that the Award is entirely a Dublin City initiative, sponsored by the City Council, the time is right for us to drop the name IMPAC from the title and to call the prize the International DUBLIN Literary Award”

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