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The Newsletter of the International DUBLIN Literary Award FICTION MATTERS 2019 No.25 February 2019 Full details of the 2019 Longlisted Books SHORTLIST 4 April WINNER 12 June www.dublinliteraryaward.ie @DublinLitAward #DubLitAward Solar Bones by Mike McCormack is the winner of the 2018 award! Mike McCormack, winner of the 2018 award, announced by Lord Mayor/Ardmhéara, Mícheál Mac Donncha, on 13th June in the Mansion House, Dublin Chief Executive Dublin City Council, Owen Keegan; Ardmhéara Mícheál Mac Donncha, Mike McCormack, Brendan Teeling, Deputy Dublin City Librarian The International DUBLIN Literary Award is the international book prize from Dublin, a UNESCO City of Literature. Presented each year since 1996 for a novel written in English or translated into English, the award is sponsored by Dublin City Council. Uniquely among literary prizes, books are nominated by library systems in major cities throughout the world. The 24th winner will be presented on 12th June 2019. 2 www.dublinliteraryaward.ie Congratulations to Tramp Press! Solar Bones is the first winner of the award to have been published by an Irish publisher Sarah Davis-Goff (left) and Lisa Coen, Tramp Press, publishers of Solar Bones, with Mike McCormack Judges and winner – (L-R) Nicky Harman, Mpalive Msiska, Mike McCormack, Ardmhéara Mícheál Mac Donncha, Vona Groarke. The judging panel also included Courttia Newland, Xiaolu Guo and Judge Eugene Sullivan (non-voting chair) You can watch video highlights of the winner, shortlist and longlist announcements, as well as interviews with the judges and the full winner’s speech on Facebook and YouTube or the news section of our website. Also, follow us on Twitter and Facebook where we regularly host competitions for copies of longlisted books and post reviews and interviews with national and international authors. www.dublinliteraryaward.ie 3 Congratulations to Galway Libraries and Nottingham City Libraries, nominators of Solar Bones! Catherine Gallagher, Galway County & City Librarian (left) and Elaine Dykes, Service Manager for Literacy and Reading for Siobhán Arkins, Executive Librarian Nottingham City Libraries (left) and Jane Brierley, Library Lead for Stock and Resources ‘I am delighted to have played a small part in Solar Bones’ odyssey. Back in 2017, Galway Public Libraries’ staff collaborated to ‘We were really pleased when Nottingham City Libraries were nominate a novel for submission to the judging panel of the invited to nominate for the Dublin Literary Award for the first time International Dublin Literary Award. I chose Solar Bones and the in 2017 and thrilled that our nominee, Mike McCormack won the novel was selected as Galway Public Libraries’ nomination for the 2018 prize for his novel Solar Bones. It is an exceptional novel and a 2018 award. The judges’ decision was a resounding endorsement very worthy winner. Thank you for allowing us to take part’. of our choice. This is a wondrous book. I envy all those readers who have yet to devour it.’ Siobhán Arkins Sharon Ní Bheoláin, Master of Ceremonies at the Jackie Lynan, Dublin UNESCO City of Literature winner announcement and Mike McCormack Brendan Teeling, Deputy Dublin City Librarian presents Mr. Harry Creber, runner-up of the Thai Young Writers competition, a scroll to Teja Zorko, Director of Lljubljana City Library, organised by the Irish Embassy in Thailand, Mike McCormack Slovenia, who represented nominating libraries worldwide and Maria Bradley, Thai Consulate in Dublin at the winner ceremony 4 www.dublinliteraryaward.ie The 2019 Award was launched on 19th November 2018 in the Dublin City Library & Archive, Pearse Street, Dublin The 2019 judging panel, left to right Evie Wyld, Hans-Christion Oeser, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Judge Eugene Sullivan, Martin Middeke and Yan Ge. They are pictured with Lord Mayor, Nial Ring and Acting Dublin City Librarian, Brendan Teeling Ambassadors and representatives from the Russian, South African, Mexican, Norwegian, Dutch, Italian and German embassies in Dublin look for books and nominating libraries from their countries on the 2019 longlist. www.dublinliteraryaward.ie 35 The 2019 award is launched by Lord Mayor and Patron, Nial Ring, 19th November 2018 (L-R) Alan McMonagle, Peter Cunningham and John Boyne, three of the ten Irish authors on the 2019 longlist Readers from Dublin City Libraries were very keen to select a book from the 2019 longlist! 6 www.dublinliteraryaward.ie THE 2019 JUDGING PANEL JUDGING 2019 THE Yan Ge was born in Sichuan Province, Martin Middeke is Professor of English Éilís Ní Dhuibhne was born in Dublin. China in 1984. She is a writer and a Ph.D. at the University of Augsburg, Germany, She is a novelist, short story writer and candidate in Comparative Literature. and Visiting Professor of English at playwright, and writes in both Irish and Publishing since 1994, she is the author of the University of Johannesburg, South English. She is also a literary critic who eleven books. Her work has been translated Africa. He has held scholarships by the reviews frequently for The Irish Times. Her into English, French, and German, among International Beckett Foundation at the latest books are Selected Stories (Dalkey other languages. She was named by University of Reading, UK, and he was a Archive Press, 2017) and a memoir, Twelve People’s Literature magazine as one of Fulbright Scholar at New York University, Thousand Days (Blackstaff Press, 2018). twenty future literature masters in China. USA. He also held a Visiting Professorship Éilís has won many awards for her work, The English translation of her latest novel at the University of Barcelona and was including the Stewart Parker Award for The Chili Bean Paste Clan was published by Long Room Hub Research Fellow at Drama, Bisto Book of the Year Awards and a Balestier Press. She has recently started to Trinity College Dublin in 2017. Major shortlisting for the Orange Prize for Fiction. write in English. She lives in Dublin with her book publications include works on She received the Irish Pen Award for an husband and son. contemporary British theatre, nineteenth- Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature to twenty-first century fiction, and literary in 2015, and a Hennessy Hall of Fame theory. He’s the co-editor of ANGLIA: Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2016. A Journal of English Philology, founded in well-known teacher of Creative Writing, she 1878 and the oldest journal dedicated to has been Writer Fellow in UCD and Trinity matters Anglia in the world. College, and is a member of Aosdána. Hans-Christian Oeser, born 1950 in Evie Wyld was born in London and grew Hon. Eugene R. Sullivan, non-voting Wiesbaden, studied German and Politics up in Australia and South London. She chair of the judging panel, is a Senior in Marburg and Berlin. In 1980 he moved is the author of two novels, All the Birds, Federal Judge and a former Chief Judge of to Ireland to take up a post as Lecturer in Singing, winner of the Miles Franklin Award; a US Court of Appeals, brings a wealth of German at UCD. Since then he has been and After the Fire, a Still Small Voice, experience from over sixteen years on the working as a literary translator, editor and winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize; bench. His first novel, The Majority Rules, travel writer. He has translated numerous and one graphic memoir, Everything is was published in 2005. The second novel of novels, short story and poetry collections, Teeth. In 2013 she was included on Granta his political thriller trilogy, The Report to the particularly by Irish writers such as Magazine’s once a decade Best of Young Judiciary, was published in 2008. A Vietnam Sebastian Barry, Brendan Behan, Maeve British Novelists list. She lives in Peckham Veteran and West Pointer, he was inducted Brennan, Anne Enright, John McGahern, where she part owns a small independent into the US Army Ranger Hall of Fame. Bernard MacLaverty, Patrick Pearse, bookshop called Review. When not recalled to the Federal Bench, William Trevor and Oscar Wilde. In 1997 Judge Sullivan is a partner in a Washington he was awarded the Aristeion Prize for law firm. his translation of Patrick McCabe’s novel The Butcher Boy. In 2010 he received the Rowohlt Prize for his life’s work, and in 2014, the Braem Prize for Mark Twain’s Autobiography. www.dublinliteraryaward.ie 7 The New Animals love, the undoing of family, the power of Beartown (The Scandal) Pip Adam grief, and the all-consuming bonds of Fredrik Backman motherhood. It is a tale about the desperate Translated from the Swedish by Neil Smith NOMINATED BY: attempts we make to save ourselves, and Auckland Libraries, New Zealand those we love, from heartbreak. NOMINATED BY: Wellington City Libraries, New Zealand Regional Library of Karviná, Czech Republic Ayobami Adebayo was born in Lagos, Norfolk Library & Information Service, Carla, Shannon and Nigeria. Her stories have appeared in a Norwich, UK Duey have worked number of magazines and anthologies and THE 2019 LONGLIST 2019 THE in fashion for longer she has been the recipient of fellowships In a large Swedish 2018 JUDGING PANEL JUDGING 2018 than they care to and residencies. Stay With Me is her forest Beartown remember. For debut novel and was shortlisted for the hides a dark secret... them, there’s Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Cut-off from nothing new under Wellcome Book Prize. everywhere else the sun. They’re it experiences the Generation X; tired, kind of isolation that cynical and sick of tears people apart. being used. 4321 And each year more Tommy, Cal and Kurt are millennials. Paul Auster and more of the They’ve come from nowhere, but with their NOMINATED BY: town is swallowed monied families behind them they’re ready Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli “Vittorio by the forest.