The Newsletter of the International 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)

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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 , 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

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 ; 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, , 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 . 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. Then the town is offered a to remake fashion. They represent the new Emanuele III”, Italy bright new future. But it is all put in jeopardy sincere, the anti-irony. Both generations are Biblioteca Vila De Gràcia - Biblioteques de by a single, brutal act. searching for a way out, an alternative to Barcelona, Spain It divides the town into those who think it their messed-up reality. Free Library of Philadelphia, USA should be hushed up and forgotten, and Pip Adam’s new novel walks the streets of On March 3, 1947, those who’ll risk the future to see justice Auckland city now, examining the fashion in the maternity done. Who will speak up? Could you stand scene, intergenerational tension and ward of Beth Israel by and stay silent? Or would you risk modern life with an unflinching eye. From Hospital in Newark, everything for justice? Which side would the wreckage and waste of the 21st century, New Jersey, you be on? new animals must emerge. Archibald Isaac Fredrik Backman is the number one New Ferguson, the one The New Animals is Pip Adam’s second York Times bestselling author of A Man and only child of novel. She has also published a collection Called Ove, My Grandmother Sends Her Rose and Stanley of short stories, Everything We Hoped For, Regards and Apologises and Britt-Marie Ferguson, is born. which won the NZ Post Best First Book Was Here. His books are published in more From that single Award in 2011, and a novel, I’m working on than forty countries and have sold over beginning, a Building. ten million copies. He lives in , Ferguson’s life will take four simultaneous Sweden, with his wife and two children. and independent fictional paths. Four Fergusons made of the same genetic Stay With Me material, four boys who are the same boy, Ayobami Adebayo will go on to lead four parallel and entirely Mrs. Osmond different lives. Family fortunes diverge. NOMINATED BY: Loves and friendships and intellectual City of Cape Town Library & Information passions contrast. NOMINATED BY: Services, South Africa Openbare Bibliotheek Gent, Belgium Norfolk Library & Information Service, Chapter by chapter, the rotating narratives Having fled Rome Norwich, UK evolve into an elaborate dance of inner and a stultifying Chicago Public Library, USA worlds enfolded within the outer forces of marriage, Isabel Richmond Public Library, USA history as, one by one, the intimate plot of each Ferguson’s story rushes on across Osmond is in Yejide is hoping for the tumultuous and fractured terrain of mid London, brooding a miracle, for a child. twentieth-century America. A boy grows on the recent It is all her husband up—again and again and again. disclosure of her wants, all her husband’s mother-in-law Paul Auster is the best-selling author shocking, years- wants, and she has of Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Man in the long betrayal of her. tried everything. But Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of What should she do when her relatives Illusions and The New York Trilogy, among now, and which way insist upon a new many other works. In 2006 he was awarded should she turn, in the emotional labyrinth wife, it is too much the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature where she has been trapped for so long? for Yejide to bear. and inducted into the American Academy Reawakened by grief and the knowledge of of Arts and Letters. having been grievously wronged, she Unravelling against the social and political determines to resume her youthful quest turbulence of 1980s Nigeria, Stay With for freedom and independence. Me is a story of the fragility of married

8 www.dublinliteraryaward.ie Soon Isabel must return to Italy and A Line Made by Walking Seventy years later in Los Angeles, ten- THE 2019LONGLIST confront her husband, and seek to break Sara Baume year-old Max finds a scratched-up LP that his powerful hold on her. But will she captured Zabbatini performing his greatest succeed in outwitting him, and securing NOMINATED BY: illusions. But the track in which Zabbatini her revenge? Muntpunt, Brussels, Belgium performs the spell of eternal love—the M. Rudomino State Library for Foreign spell Max believes will keep his parents John Banville was born in Wexford, Literature, Moscow, Russia from getting divorced—is damaged beyond Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of sixteen Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Switzerland repair. Desperate for a solution, Max seeks novels including , which won the out the now elderly, cynical magician and 2005 Man . In 2011 he was Struggling to cope begs him for help. awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, in 2013 with urban life – and he was awarded the Irish PEN Award for with life in general Emanuel Bergmann was born in Germany Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature, – Frankie, a and is a journalist and translator. He has and in 2014 he won the Prince of Asturias twenty-something been living in Los Angeles since 1990. His Award, Spain’s most important literary prize. artist, retreats to the first novel, The Trick, was an international He lives in Dublin. rural bungalow on bestseller. ‘turbine hill’ that has been vacant since her grandmother’s The Invisible Life of Euridice death three years The 7th Function of Language Gusmao earlier. It is in this Laurent Binet Martha Batalha space, surrounded by nature that she Translated from the French by Sam Taylor Translated from the Portuguese by hopes to regain her footing in art and life. NOMINATED BY: Eric M. B. Becker Her family come and go, until they don’t Bibliothèques Municipales Genève, and she is left alone to contemplate the NOMINATED BY: Switzerland path that led her here, and the smell of the Biblioteca Demonstrativa Maria da M. Rudomino State Library for Foreign carpet that started it all. Finding little Conceição Moreira Salles, Brasilia, Brazil Literature, Moscow, Russia comfort in human interaction, Frankie turns Euridice is bright her camera lens on the natural world and Roland Barthes is and ambitious. But its reassuring cycle of life and death. knocked down in a this is Brazil in the Paris street by a What emerges is a profound meditation on 1940s, and society laundry van. It’s the interconnectedness of wilderness, art expects her to be a February 1980 and and individual experience, and a powerful loving wife and he has just come exploration of human frailty. mother. While from lunch with Antenor is busy Sara Baume was born in Lancashire Francois Mitterrand. congratulating and grew up in County Cork. Her debut Barthes dies soon himself on his novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither, was afterwards. History excellent catch, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award tells us it was an Euridice spends her and longlisted for First Book accident. humdrum days ironing his shirts and Award, among others. She has received But what if it was an assassination? What removing the lumps of onion from his food, a Literary Fellowship from the Lannan if Barthes was carrying a document dreaming of the success she could have Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico. of unbelievable, global importance? A made of herself - as a writer, dressmaker or document explaining the seventh function culinary whizz - in another life. of language – an idea so powerful it gives Her free-spirited sister Guida, on the other The Trick whoever masters it the ability to convince hand, is the kind of person who was ‘born Emanuel Bergmann anyone, in any situation, to do anything. knowing everything’. When she returns Police Captain Jacques Bayard and his from her failed elopement with stories of NOMINATED BY: reluctant accomplice, Simon Herzog, set heartbreak and loss, the lives of Euridice Katona József Library of Bács-Kiskun off on a chase that takes them from the and her husband are thrown into confusion, County, Kecskemét, Hungary corridors of power to backstreet saunas with disastrous consequences. In 1934, a rabbi’s and midnight meetings. What they discover The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao is a son in Prague joins is a worldwide conspiracy involving the darkly comic debut, bursting with vibrant a traveling circus, President, murderous Bulgarians and a Brazilian spirit and unforgettable characters. becomes a secret international debating society. magician, and rises Martha Batalha studied journalism to fame under the Laurent Binet lives and works in France. and literature in Brazil, working first as a stage name the His first novel, HHhH, was an international reporter before starting her own publishing Great Zabbatini, just bestseller which won the prestigious Prix company. The Invisible Life of Euridice as Europe Goncourt du premier roman, among other Gusmao is her first novel. Martha lives in descends into prizes. Santa Monica, California, with her husband World War II. When and two children. Zabbatini is discovered to be a Jew, his battered trunk full of magic tricks becomes his only hope for survival.

www.dublinliteraryaward.ie 9 The Heart’s Invisible Furies gunman enters the supermarket and opens Marlborough Man John Boyne fire. When Wanda comes face to face with Alan Carter the shooter, she instinctively hurls a can of NOMINATED BY: coconut milk at his head and knocks him NOMINATED BY: Openbare Bibliotheek Gent, Belgium unconscious. The State Library of Western Australia, Perth Municipal Library of Prague, Czech Republic Nick Chester is Waterford City & County Libraries, Ireland In the ensuing media storm, she’s hailed working as a Dunedin Public Libraries, New Zealand as a hero and miracle worker. But in sergeant for the Milwaukee Public Library, USA the aftermath of so much attention, she THE 2019 LONGLIST 2019 THE Havelock police in Richmond Public Library, USA receives strange emails and believes she’s being followed. As her fear and paranoia the Marlborough Cast out from home, grow, both her private and professional Sound, at the top of sixteen and lives hang in the balance. And it takes New Zealand’s pregnant, Catherine another act of bravery before she’ll learn South Island. If the Goggin boards the who she really is. river isn’t flooded bus to Dublin to and the land hasn’t start afresh. Once Bridget Canning’s debut novel, The slipped, it’s there, she has no Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes, was paradise. Unless choice but to selected as a finalist for the BMO Winterset you are also hiding from a ruthless man believe that the nun Award, the Margaret and John Savage First with a grudge, in which case, remote to whom she Book (Fiction) Award, and the IPPY Award beauty has its own kind of danger. In the entrusts her child for Best Fiction, Canada East. She lives last couple of weeks, two local boys have will find him a in St. John’s where she is busy working vanished. Their bodies are found, but the better life. The baby is named Cyril by his on an MA in Creative Writing at Memorial Pied Piper is still at large. adoptive parents, who treat him more like a University. Marlborough Man is a gripping story about curiosity than a son. But before this can the hunter and the hunted, and about what affect him too deeply, he meets Julian happens when evil takes hold in a small Woodbead who, even from childhood, A Long Way from Home town. seems destined for an infinitely more glamorous and dangerous life. Alan Carter was born in 1959 in NOMINATED BY: Sunderland, UK and immigrated to Buffeted by circumstance and the The State Library of South Australia, Australia in 1991. He holds a degree in consequences of his own questionable Adelaide Communications Studies from Sunderland judgement, Cyril must navigate his Polytechnic and now works as a television emotions and his desires in search of that Irene Bobs loves documentary director. Alan lives with most instinctive human need.... happiness. fast driving. Her his wife and son in Fremantle, Western husband is the best John Boyne was born in Ireland in 1971. He Australia. car salesman in is the author of nine novels for adults, five western Victoria. for young readers and a collection of short Together they enter stories. Perhaps best known for his 2006 the Redex Trial, a multi-award-winning book The Boy In The Song of the Sun God brutal race around Striped Pyjamas, John’s other novels have Shankari Chandran the ancient been widely praised and are international continent over NOMINATED BY: bestsellers. His novels are published in over roads no car will Colombo Public Library, Sri Lanka 45 languages. ever quite survive. In a time of With them is their lanky fair-haired navigator, upheaval, can Nala Willie Bachhuber, a quiz show champion keep her family The Greatest Hits of Wanda together? Jaynes and failed schoolteacher whose job it is Bridget Canning to call out the turns, the grids, the creek The capital city – a crossings on a map that will finally remove little boy watches a NOMINATED BY: them, without warning, from the lily-white monk wrap himself Newfoundland & Labrador Public Libraries, Australia they know so well. in flames… A village Canada Set in the 1950s amid the consequences of in Jaffna – a little girl Wanda Jaynes is the age of empires, this brilliantly vivid and is bursting with life… about to lose her lively novel reminds us how Europeans took Nala and Ranjan job amidst a of a timeless culture – the high are on the brink of an exciting future. They mountain of bills, purpose they invented and the crimes they will meet, marry and fall in love. They will and she suspects committed along the way. set up house and have children. They will her musician Peter Carey was born in Victoria, and map out their future together, but destiny boyfriend might be now lives in New York. He is the author has other plans for them. Will they survive? romantically of fourteen novels, two volumes of short interested in her The Song of the Sun God is a deeply stories, and two books on travel. Amongst friend, Trish. But moving saga spanning three continents other prizes, Carey has won the Booker Wanda’s life and three generations. Lush physical Prize twice, the Commonwealth Writers’ changes radically details and an emotional recounting of Prize twice and the Miles Franklin Literary on a routine trip to the grocery store when a events as they relentlessly unfold, reveal Award three times.

10 www.dublinliteraryaward.ie a heart-wrenching story of family, love, Michael and her husband, where she teaches at The THE 2019LONGLIST laughter, sorrow and new beginnings. Francis are the Colburn Conservatory and Occidental bright, ambitious College. Shankari Chandran was raised in sons of Trinidadian Canberra Australia. She spent a decade in immigrants. Coming London working as a lawyer in the social of age in the justice field. She now lives in Australia outskirts of a Terra Nullius with her husband, four children and their sprawling city, the Claire G. Coleman cavoodle puppy. The Song of the Sun God brothers battle is her first novel. NOMINATED BY: against careless State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, prejudices and low Australia expectations. Jacky was running. Dragon Springs Road While Francis aspires to a future in music, There was no Janie Chang Michael dreams of Aisha, the smartest thought in his head, girl in their school, whose eyes are firmly NOMINATED BY: only an intense set on a life elsewhere. But one sweltering Saint John Free Public Library, Canada drive to run. There summer night the hopes of all three are was no sense he In 1908, Jialing is violently, irrevocably cut short. was getting only seven years old In this timely and essential novel, David anywhere, no plan, when she is Chariandy builds a quietly devastating story no destination, no abandoned in the about the love between a mother and her future. All he had courtyard of a sons, the impact of race, masculinity and was a sense of once-lavish estate the senseless loss of young lives. what was behind, near Shanghai. what he was running from. Jacky was Jialing is zazhong— David Chariandy grew up in Toronto and running. Eurasian—and lives and teaches in Vancouver. His debut faces a lifetime of novel, Soucouyant, received stunning The Natives of the Colony are restless. The contempt from both reviews and recognition from eleven literary Settlers are eager to have a nation of peace, Chinese and awards juries. Brother, his second novel, and to bring the savages into line. Families Europeans. She can survive only if the was named a Best Book of 2017 on no are torn apart, re-education is enforced. estate’s new owners, the Yang family, agree fewer than eight lists, and won the Rogers This rich land will provide for all. This is to take her in. Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. not Australia as we know it. This is not the Australia of our history. This Terra Nullius Jialing finds allies in Anjuin, the eldest Yang is something new, but all too familiar. This daughter, and Fox, an animal spirit who has is an incredible debut from a striking new lived in the haunted courtyard for centuries. What We Lose Australian Aboriginal voice. But Jialing’s life as the Yangs’ bondservant Zinzi Clemmons changes unexpectedly when she befriends Claire Coleman is a writer from Western a young English girl who then mysteriously NOMINATED BY: Australia. She identifies with the South vanishes. Veria Central Public Library, Greece Coast Noongar people. She wrote her debut novel, the black&write! fellowship- Jialing grows into womanhood during the Raised in winning Terra Nullius while travelling tumultuous early years of the Chinese Pennsylvania, around Australia in a caravan. republic, but she finds herself drawn Thandi views the into a murder at the periphery of political world of her intrigue, a relationship that jeopardizes her mother’s childhood friendship with Anjuin and a forbidden affair in Johannesburg as The Last Beothuk that brings danger to the man she loves. both impossibly Gary Collins distant and ever Janie Chang writes historical novels that present. She is an NOMINATED BY: draw upon family history for inspiration. Her outsider wherever Newfoundland & Labrador Public Libraries, first novel, Three Souls, was a finalist for the she goes, caught Canada 2013 BC Book Prizes fiction award. Janie between being has lived in the Philippines, Iran, Thailand, Inspired by True black and white, American and not. She and New Zealand. She lives in Vancouver. Events Long after tries to connect these dislocated pieces of Demasduit’s skull her life, and as her mother succumbs to has been stolen cancer, Thandi searches for an anchor— from her grave, and someone, or something, to love. Brother years after David Chariandy Zinzi Clemmons was raised in Shanawdithit has Philadelphia by a South African mother and died, one Beothuk NOMINATED BY: an American father. A graduate of Brown and his family Halifax Public Libraries, Canada and Columbia, her writing has appeared survive. Ottawa Public Library, Canada in Zoetrope: All-Story, The Paris Review Saint John Free Public Library, Canada Bursting out of the Daily, Transition, and elsewhere. She is a Toronto Public Library, Canada pages of Newfoundland history appears cofounder and former publisher of Apogee Vancouver Public Library, Canada Kop, the last true Beothuk. Journal and a contributing editor to Literary Hub. Clemmons lives in Los Angeles with When all the other members of his tribe

www.dublinliteraryaward.ie 11 are exterminated by the Europeans, Kop The Life to Come that populate our past and a portrait of seeks revenge against the Unwanted radical foreignness. Ones. Hidden among the Bear Clan of the Hernan Diaz is the author Mi’kmaq, the Beothuk strikes back. NOMINATED BY: State Library of New South Wales, , of Borges, Between History and Follow Kop on his trail of defiance against Australia Eternity (Bloomsbury 2012), managing the European marauders upon his Island. editor of RHM, and associate director See what becomes of a man who has Set in Sydney, of the Hispanic Institute at Columbia nothing to lose or live for. Stay with him on Paris and Sri University. He lives in New York. THE 2019 LONGLIST 2019 THE a hundred trails and sit with him across the Lanka, The Life to smoke of a hundred campfires. You will not Come is a only weep for the last Beothuk—you will mesmerising cheer him on as he pushes back against novel about the Her the Unwanted Ones. stories we tell and Garry Disher don’t tell ourselves NOMINATED BY: Gary Collins has written twelve books. He as individuals, as State Library of South Australia, Adelaide is Newfoundland and Labrador’s favourite societies and as storyteller, and known all over the province nations. It feels at A dark and as “the Story Man.” His favourite pastimes once firmly classic unsettling tale, set are reading, writing, and playing guitar. He and exhilaratingly contemporary. at the turn of the lives in Hare Bay, Newfoundland, with his twentieth century wife. They have three children and three Pippa is a writer who longs for success. that will stay with grandchildren. Celeste tries to convince herself that you long after you her feelings for her married lover are finish reading - reciprocated. Ash makes strategic use of from a master of his childhood in Sri Lanka but blots out . Acts of Allegiance the memory of a tragedy from that time. Peter Cunningham Driven by riveting stories and unforgettable Out in that country characters, here is a dazzling meditation the sun smeared NOMINATED BY: on intimacy, loneliness and our flawed the sky and nothing ever altered, except Waterford City & County Libraries, Ireland perception of other people. that one day a scrap man came by . . . Senior Irish Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Her name is scarcely known or diplomat, Marty Lanka and emigrated to Australia when remembered. All in all, she is worth less Ransom, is torn she was 14. She is the author of The Rose than the nine shillings and sixpence between duty to his Grower, The Hamilton Case, which won the counted into her father’s hand. She bides country and loyalty Commonwealth Prize (SE Asia and Pacific her time. She does her work. Way back in to the Anglo-Irish region) and the UK Encore Prize, and The the corner of her mind is a thought she is tradition in which Lost Dog, which was widely praised. Her almost too frightened to shine a light on: he was raised. In a last novel, Questions of Travel, received 14 one day she will run away. land divided into honours, including winning the 2013 Miles north and south, Garry Disher grew up in South Australia. Franklin Literary Award. Planter and Gael, In 1978 he was awarded a creative writing Catholic and fellowship to Stanford University. He Protestant, Marty’s life has been spent worked as a writing lecturer between the walking a tightrope. When he meets Alison, In the Distance years 1980 and 1988, before becoming a a Home Office employee now transferred to Hernan Diaz full-time writer. He has published over fifty the British embassy in Dublin, Marty’s books, including short story collections, fidelities are once again split. NOMINATED BY: literary novels, writers’ handbooks Chicago Public Library, USA and award-winning crime thrillers and Lured ever deeper into the lethal world children’s titles. of counter-espionage, he finds himself in A young Swedish fatal conflict with his cousin and childhood immigrant finds friend. As this deadly endgame unfolds, himself penniless Marty must choose between all which he and alone in Smile California. The boy loves and holds dear, and his allegiance to a past that remains just beyond his reach. travels east in search of his NOMINATED BY: Peter Cunningham is the author of the brother, moving on Stadtbücherei Frankfurt am Main, Germany Monument series, widely acclaimed novels foot against the Just moved into a set in a fictional version of his home town, great current of new apartment, Waterford. His novel, The Taoiseach, was emigrants pushing alone for the first a controversial best seller; The Sea and west. Driven back time in years, Victor the Silence won the prestigious Prix de again and again, he meets naturalists, Forde goes every l’Europe. He is a member of Aosdána, the criminals, religious fanatics, swindlers, evening to Irish academy of arts and letters, and lives Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn Donnelly’s pub for a with his wife, not far from Dublin. him into a legend. Diaz defies the pint, a slow one. conventions of historical fiction and genre, One evening his offering a probing look at the stereotypes drink is interrupted.

12 www.dublinliteraryaward.ie THE 2019LONGLIST A man in shorts and a pink shirt brings over Special Envoy the country is at war. Anna works at the his pint and sits down. He seems to know Jean Echenoz Brooklyn Naval Yard as the first female diver, Victor’s name and to remember him from Translated from the original French by Sam the most dangerous and exclusive of school. Says his name is Fitzpatrick. Victor Taylor occupations, repairing the ships that will dislikes him on sight, dislikes too the help America win the war. One evening at a memories that Fitzpatrick stirs up of five NOMINATED BY: nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again years being taught by the Christian Bibliothèque publique d’information, Paris, and begins to understand the complexity of Brothers. He prompts other memories too France her father’s life, the reasons he might have – of Rachel, his beautiful wife who became a Special Envoy vanished. celebrity, and of Victor’s own small claim to begins with an old With the atmosphere of a noir thriller, fame, as the man who says the unsayable general in France’s Manhattan Beach is a deft, dazzling, on the radio. But it’s the memories of intelligence agency propulsive exploration of a transformative school, and of one particular Brother, that asking his trusted moment in American history from one of he cannot control - and which eventually lieutenant Paul the great writers of our time. threaten to destroy his sanity. Objat for ideas Jennifer Egan is the author of five previous Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin. He is about a person he books of fiction including A Visit from the the author of eleven acclaimed novels wants for a Goon Squad, which won the Pulitzer Prize including The Commitments, The particular job: and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Snapper and The Van, two collections of someone to aid the The Keep; and Look at Me, a National Book short stories, Rory & Ita, a memoir about his destabilization of Award finalist. parents, and The Guts. He won the Booker Kim Jong-un’s regime in North Korea. Objat Prize for . has someone in mind: Constance, an attractive, restless, bored woman in a failing marriage to a washed-up pop musician. American War Soon after, she is abducted by Objat’s A Vineyard in Andalusia cronies and spirited away into the lower Omar El Akkad Maria Dueñas depths of France’s intelligence bureaucracy NOMINATED BY: Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caister where she is trained for her mission. Calgary Public Library, Canada and Lorenza Garcia Ottawa Public Library, Canada What follows is a bizarre tale of NOMINATED BY kidnappings, murders and mutilations, Sarat Chestnut, Biblioteca de Andalucía, Granada, Spain bad pop songs and great sex, populated born in Louisiana, is by a cast of oddballs and losers. Set only six when the 1861. A ruined in Paris, rural central France, and Second American silver-mine owner Pyongyang, Special Envoy is joyously Civil War breaks out sets sail from strange and unpredictable. in 2074. But even Mexico City to seek she knows that oil is his fortune in the Jean Echenoz won France’s prestigious outlawed, that New World. Mauro Prix Goncourt for I’m Gone (The New Louisiana is half Larrera has just four Press). He is the author of eleven novels underwater, that months to pay his in English translation, and the winner of unmanned drones creditors, or his numerous literary prizes, among them the fill the sky. And bankruptcy will be Prix Médicis and the European Literature when her father is killed and her family is revealed and his Jeopardy Prize. He lives in Paris. forced into Camp Patience for displaced family’s honour will persons, she quickly begins to be shaped be in tatters. In magnificent Havana — by her particular time and place until, finally, home to beautiful women and dangerous through the influence of a mysterious men who deal in mysterious trades — he Manhattan Beach functionary, she is turned into a deadly gambles what little he has left on what will Jennifer Egan instrument of war. become the greatest adventure of his life … NOMINATED BY: Telling her story is her nephew, Benjamin A Vineyard in Andalusia is a novel of glories Miami-Dade Public Library System, USA Chestnut, born during war as one of the and defeats; of silver mines, family secrets, San Diego Public Library, USA Miraculous Generation and now an old vineyards, cellars, and splendid cities of Anna Kerrigan, man confronting the dark secret of his faded grandeur; of unexpected passion, nearly twelve years past -- his family’s role in the conflict and, and love in the strangest of circumstances. old, accompanies in particular, that of his aunt, a woman María Dueñas is the author of her father to visit who saved his life while destroying the bestselling novel The Seamstress, Dexter Styles, a untold others. which been translated into twenty-five man who, she Omar El Akkad was born in Cairo, Egypt languages. Dueñas’ previous novel, The gleans, is crucial to and grew up in Doha, Qatar until he moved Heart Has Its Reasons, was also highly the survival of her to Canada with his family. He is an award- acclaimed. Her books have sold over family. She is winning journalist and author who has 6 million copies worldwide. She is mesmerized by the travelled around the world to cover many of currently a professor at the University of sea beyond the the most important news stories of the last Murcia. Spain. house and by some charged mystery between the two men. decade. He lives in Portland, Oregon. Years later, her father has disappeared and

www.dublinliteraryaward.ie 13 Compass streets of his city, Berlin. Here, on First Person Mathias Énard Oranienplatz, he discovers a new Translated from the French by community -- a tent city, established by NOMINATED BY: Charlotte Mandell African asylum seekers. LINC Tasmania, Hobart, Australia NOMINATED BY: Hesitantly, getting to know the new Cork City Libraries, Ireland Bibliothèque publique d’information, Paris, arrivals, Richard finds his life changing, as Christchurch City Libraries, New Zealand France he begins to question his own sense of Kif Kehlmann, a Katona József Library of Bács-Kiskun belonging in a city that once divided its THE 2019 LONGLIST 2019 THE young, penniless County, Kecskemét, Hungary citizens into them and us. writer, is rung in the As night falls over At once a passionate contribution to the middle of the night Vienna, Franz Ritter, debate on race, privilege and nationality by the notorious an insomniac and a beautifully written examination of an con man and musicologist, takes ageing man’s quest to find meaning in his corporate criminal, to his sickbed with life. Siegfried Heidl. an unspecified Jenny Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin About to go to trial illness and spends in 1967. She has worked on opera and for defrauding the a restless night musical productions and her fiction has banks of $700 drifting between been translated worldwide. She is the million, Heidl offers dreams and author of The Book of Words, Visitation and Kehlmann the job of ghost writing his memories, The End of Days. memoir. He has six weeks to write the book, revisiting the for which he’ll be paid $10,000. important chapters of his life: his ongoing But as the writing gets under way, fascination with the Middle East and his Kehlmann begins to fear that he is being numerous travels to Istanbul, Aleppo, Decline and Fall on Savage corrupted by Heidl. As the deadline draws Damascus, and Tehran, as well as the Street closer, he becomes ever more unsure if various writers, artists, musicians, Fiona Farrell he is ghost writing a memoir, or if Heidl is academics, orientalists, and explorers who NOMINATED BY: rewriting him–his life, his future. Everything populate this vast dreamscape. Timaru District Libraries, New Zealand that was certain grows uncertain as he At the centre of these memories is his begins to wonder: Who is Siegfried Heidl– A house with a elusive love, Sarah, a fiercely intelligent and who is Kif Kehlmann? fanciful turret is French scholar caught in the intricate built by a river. Richard Flanagan’s six previous novels— tension between Europe and the Unfolding within its Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Middle East. rooms are lives of Hand Clapping, Gould’s Book of Fish, The Mathias Énard is the award-winning event and Unknown Terrorist, Wanting and The author of Zone and Street of Thieves, and a emotional upheaval. Narrow Road to the Deep North —have translator from Persian and Arabic. He won A lot happens. And received numerous honours and are the Prix Goncourt in 2015 for Compass. the tumultuous published in forty-two countries. He lives in events of the Tasmania. twentieth century Go, Went, Gone also leave their Jenny Erpenbeck mark, from war to economic collapse, the deaths of presidents and princesses to new This is How it Always Is Translated from the German by Susan waves of music, art, architecture and Laurie Frankel Bernofsky political ideas. NOMINATED BY: NOMINATED BY: Meanwhile, a few metres away in the river, City Library of Rotterdam, the Netherlands Stadtbüchereien Düsseldorf, Germany another creature follows a different, slower Stadtbücherei Heidelberg, Germany This is the story of a family – Rosie, Penn rhythm. And beneath them all, the planet Leipziger Städtische Bibliotheken, Germany and their five boys. The days are full of moves to its own immense geological time. Münchner Stadtbibliothek, Germany drama, laughter, Cork City Libraries, Ireland Writing in a city devastated by major tears, friendship, Limerick City & County Library, Ireland earthquakes, Fiona Farrell rebuilds a rivalry and making M. Rudomino State Library for Foreign brilliant, compelling and imaginative order out of chaos. Literature, Moscow, Russia structure from bits and pieces salvaged Then the youngest Los Angeles Public Library, USA from one hundred years of history. A lot has boy tell his parents happened. This is how it might have felt. Richard has spent what he wants to his life as a Fiona Farrell is one of New Zealand’s be when he grows university professor, leading writers. She has published volumes up. A chef. A vet. A immersed in the of poetry, collections of short stories, non- dinosaur. A farmer. world of books and fiction works, and many novels. In 2007 A scientist. A girl. ideas, but now he is she received the Prime Minister’s Award When little Claude puts on a skirt and calls retired, his books for Fiction, and in 2012 was appointed an herself Poppy, her family love her as much remain in their Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit as ever. But it’s not going to be that simple packing boxes and for services to literature. for everyone… he steps into the

14 www.dublinliteraryaward.ie THE 2019LONGLIST Laurie Frankel writes novels (reads Teenage Linda lives Palacios, a Colombian priest with a dark novels, teaches other people to write with her parents in paramilitary past now confronted with his novels, raises a small person who reads the austere woods guilt; Rimbaud, the precocious, brilliant and might someday write novels) in Seattle, of northern poet whose life was incessant exploration; Washington. Her first novel, The Atlas of Minnesota, where and, Juana and ‘the consul’, central Love, was published in 2010, followed in their nearly characters in Gamboa’s Night Prayers, 2012 by Goodbye For Now. This Is How It abandoned who are united in a relationship based Always Is is Laurie’s third novel. commune stands equally on hurt and need. These characters as a last vestige of a animate Gamboa’s richly imagined lost counter-culture portrait of a hostile, turbulent world where world. Isolated at liberation is found in perpetual movement The Invented Part home and an and determined exploration. Rodrigo Fresán outsider at school, Linda is drawn to the Novelist, short story writer, and journalist, Translated from the Spanish by Will enigmatic, attractive Lily and new history Santiago Gamboa was born in Colombia Vanderhyden teacher Mr. Grierson. When Mr. Grierson is in 1965. His American debut, published by faced with child pornography charges, his NOMINATED BY: Europa in 2012, was the novel Necropolis, arrest deeply affects Linda as she wrestles Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas, Mexico winner of the Otra Orilla Literary Prize. He with her own fledgling desires and craving City, Mexico is also the author of Night Prayers (Europa, to belong. 2016). An aging writer, And then the young Gardner family moves disillusioned with in across the lake and Linda finds herself the state of literary welcomed into their home as a babysitter culture, attempts to for their little boy, Paul. But with this new Here in Berlin disappear in the sense of belonging come expectations and Christina Garcia most cosmically secrets she doesn’t understand. Over the dramatic manner: NOMINATED BY: course of a summer, Linda makes a set of traveling to the Christchurch City Libraries, New Zealand choices that reverberate throughout her Hadron Collider, Free Library of Philadelphia, USA life. As she struggles to find a way out of merging with the the sequestered world into which she was Here in Berlin is a God particle, and born, Linda confronts the life-and-death portrait of a city transforming into an consequences of the things people do–and through snapshots, omnipresent deity—a meta-writer— fail to do—for the people they love. an excavation of the capable of rewriting reality. stories and ghosts Emily Fridlund grew up in Minnesota and With biting humour and a propulsive, of contemporary currently lives in the Finger Lakes region of contagious style, amid the accelerated Berlin—its complex, New York. Her first novel, History of Wolves, particles of his characteristic obsessions— troubled past still was a finalist for the Booker Prize and the the writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the pulsing in the air as PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut music of Pink Floyd and The Kinks, 2001: it was during World Fiction, and longlisted for the Carnegie A Space Odyssey, the links between great War II. Critically Medal for Fiction. art and the lives of the artists who create acclaimed novelist it—Fresán takes us on a whirlwind tour of Cristina García brings the people of this writers and muses, madness and genius, famed city to life, their stories bristling with friendships, broken families, and alternate Return to the Dark Valley regret, desire, and longing. realities, exploring themes of childhood, Santiago Gamboa An unnamed Visitor travels to Berlin with a loss, memory, aging, and death. Translated from the Spanish by Howard camera looking for reckonings of her own. Rodrigo Fresán delivers a powerful defence Curtis Here in Berlin she encounters a people’s of great literature, a celebration of reading history. A meditation on war and mystery, NOMINATED BY: and writing, of the invented parts—the this an exciting new work by one of our Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas, Mexico stories we tell ourselves to give shape to most gifted novelists, one that seeks to City, Mexico our world. align the stories of the past with the stories Gritty Central and of the future. Rodrigo Fresán is the author of South American nine novels, including Kensington Cristina García is the author of seven lives from an Gardens, Mantra, and The Bottom of the novels, including: Dreaming in Cuban—a underground Sky. His works incorporate many elements finalist for the National Book Award— Colombian literary from science-fiction (Philip K. Dick in The Agüero Sisters, Monkey Hunting, A voice. particular) alongside pop culture and Handbook to Luck, The Lady Matador’s literary references. Manuela Beltrán, a Hotel, and King of Cuba. Her work has been woman haunted translated into fourteen languages. She by a troubled lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. childhood she tries History of Wolves to escape through Emma Fridlund books and poetry; Tertuliano, an Argentine preacher who claims to be the Pope’s NOMINATED BY: son, ready to resort to extreme methods Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Switzerland to create a harmonious society; Ferdinand Ferguson Library, Stamford, USA

www.dublinliteraryaward.ie 15 Dreams Beyond the Shore love and true friendship—compels Amelia It is the early 1990s Tamika Gibson to make her own journey to Spain to and Zhou Haonan, reconcile her grandmother’s past with her an innocent young NOMINATED BY: own uncertain future. Moving and deeply man from a rural Jamaica Library Service, Kingston felt, There Your Heart Lies explores how family in China’s Seventeen-year-old character is forged in a particular moment West Canton Chelsea Marchand in history—and passed down through Province, travels to was pretty satisfied generations. the `golden city’ of Shenzhen to seek THE 2019 LONGLIST 2019 THE with her life. Until Mary Gordon is the author of eight novels, his fortune. Kind recently. Willing to including Final Payments, Pearl, and The and caring but play the dutiful Love of My Youth; six works of nonfiction, highly ambitious, he daughter as her and three collections of short fiction, works as an international businessman, father’s bid to including The Stories of Mary Gordon, becomes a Sanda boxing champion and become Prime which was awarded the Story Prize. She even sells his blood as he spends the next Minister of their teaches at Barnard College and lives in 20 years striving desperately to achieve his island home brings New York City. her family into dream of a Shenzhen permanent residence intense public scrutiny, Chelsea is swept permit and a home of his own. Despite a along by the strong tidal wave of politics string of humiliating failures and disasters and becomes increasingly disturbed by her Little Sister and cruel treatment by the women who father’s duplicity. She finds a reprieve when Barbara Gowdy enter his life, he somehow manages to get she meets Kyron, a kindred spirit encased back on his feet and carry on through all NOMINATED BY: in low riding blue jeans. the setbacks which life throws at him. The Hartford Public Library, USA Road to Shenzhen is one of very few novels But when Chelsea discovers an even darker ever to be written in English by a Chinese Thunderstorms are more sinister side to her father’s world, a author who has lived all his life in China. rolling across the discovery that makes her question the man summer sky. Every he is and the woman she wants to be, she Huang Guosheng, born in Maoming time one breaks, must decide how much of her own dreams City, Guangdong Province, China, is Rose Bowan loses she is willing to compromise to make her a member of Guangdong Provincial consciousness and father’s come true. Writers’ Association and the Translators’ has vivid, realistic Association of China. He works as an Tamika Gibson grew up in Trinidad and dreams about being international businessman and a bilingual Tobago and lived in the USA. She holds in another woman’s Chinese-English writer in Shenzhen, China. an English degree from Morgan State body. University and enjoys writing almost as Is Rose merely much as she loves reading. Dreams Beyond dreaming? Or is she, in fact, inhabiting a the Shore, winner of the 2016 Burt Award How to Stop Time stranger? Disturbed yet entranced, she for Caribbean Young Adult Literature, is her Matt Haig sets out to discover what is happening to first published novel. her, leaving the cocoon of her family’s small NOMINATED BY: repertory cinema for the larger, upended Veria Central Public Library, Greece world of someone wildly different from Tom Hazard has a herself. 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Her work has been Spanish Civil War— identity he can keep one step ahead of his published in more than twenty-four an experience she past - and stay alive. The only thing he must countries. She lives in Toronto, Canada. has always kept to not do is fall in love … herself. Now in her nineties and Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and diagnosed with cancer, Marian finally The Road to Shenzhen shares what happened to her during those six highly acclaimed novels for adults, years with her granddaughter Amelia, a Huang Guosheng including How to Stop Time, The Humans and The Radleys. He has also young woman of good heart but only a NOMINATED BY: written books for children. He has sold vague notion of life’s purpose. Marian’s The National Library of Malaysia, more than a million books in the UK and secret history—of personal and ethical Kuala Lumpar challenges nearly unthinkable to Amelia’s his work has been translated into over forty generation, of the unexpected gifts of true languages.

16 www.dublinliteraryaward.ie THE 2019LONGLIST Exit West A House in ’s masterly new novel Mohsin Hamid Norway tells the evokes the intimate relationships of a group story of Alma, a of friends bound together by art, literature NOMINATED BY: divorced textile and love across three generations. National Library Service of Barbados, artist who makes a Alan Hollinghurst is the author of five Bridgetown living from weaving novels, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Muntpunt, Brussels, Belgium standards for trade Folding Star, The Spell, The Line of Halifax Public Libraries, Canada unions and Beauty and The Stranger’s Child. He has Toronto Public Library, Canada marching bands. received the Somerset Maugham Award, Stadtbüchereien Düsseldorf, Germany She lives alone in the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biblioteca Vila De Gràcia - Biblioteques de an old villa, and Fiction and the 2004 Man Booker Prize. He Barcelona, Spain rents out an lives in London. The Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton apartment in her house to supplement her County, USA income. She is overjoyed to be given a Houston Public Library, USA more creative assignment, to design a Los Angeles Public Library, USA tapestry for an exhibition to celebrate the Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, USA centenary of women’s suffrage in Norway, Fine San Diego Public Library, USA but soon finds that it is a much more Gail Honeyman Nadia and Saeed daunting task than she had anticipated. NOMINATED BY: are two ordinary Meanwhile, a Polish family moves into her Tallinn Central Library, Estonia young people, apartment, and their activities become a Tartu Public Library, Estonia attempting to do an challenge to her unconscious assumptions Dunedin Public Libraries, New Zealand extraordinary thing and her self-image as a good feminist and Liverpool City Libraries, UK - to fall in love - in a an open-minded liberal. Is it possible to Nottingham City Libraries, UK world turned upside reconcile the desire to be tolerant and altruistic with the imperative need for down. Theirs will be Eleanor Oliphant creative and personal space? a love story but also has learned how to a story about how Vigdis Hjorth is a Norwegian novelist survive but not how we live now and whose work has been recognised by many to live how we might live prizes. She writes about the dilemmas of Eleanor Oliphant tomorrow, of a world in crisis and two living in modern society. Her latest novel, leads a simple life. human beings travelling through it. Arv og Miljo (Inheritance and Environment, She wears the same clothes to Civil war has come to the city which Nadia 2016), a searing account of sexual abuse, work every day, eats and Saeed call home. Before long they will has aroused heated debate about the the same meal deal need to leave their motherland behind - relationship between fiction and reality. for lunch every day when the streets are no longer usable and and buys the same the unknown is safer than the known. They two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. will join the great outpouring of people The Sparsholt Affair Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is fleeing a collapsing city, hoping against missing from her carefully timetabled life. hope, looking for their place in the world . . . Alan Hollinghurst Except, sometimes, everything. NOMINATED BY: Mohsin Hamid writes regularly for The One simple act of kindness is about to Deichmanske Bibliotek, Oslo, Norway New York Times, the Guardian and the New shatter the walls Eleanor has built around York Review of Books, and is the author In October 1940, herself. Now she must learn how to of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Moth the handsome navigate the world that everyone else Smoke and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising young David seems to take for granted while searching Asia. Born and mostly raised in Lahore, he Sparsholt arrives in for the courage to face the dark corners has since lived between Lahore, London Oxford. A keen she’s avoided all her life. and New York. athlete and Change can be good. Change can be bad. oarsman, he at first But surely any change is better than fine? seems unaware of the effect he has on Gail Honeyman’s debut novel, Elinor A House in Norway others – particularly Oliphant, won the Costa First Novel Vigdis Hjorth on the lonely and Award 2017, and has been longlisted Translated from the Norwegian by romantic Evert Dax, for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and Charlotte Barslund son of a celebrated novelist and destined to the Desmond Elliott Prize. Translation NOMINATED BY: become a writer himself. While the Blitz rights have sold to over thirty territories Deichmanske Bibliotek, Oslo, Norway rages in London, Oxford exists at a strange worldwide, Reese Witherspoon has Sølvberget, Stavanger bibliotek og remove: an ephemeral, uncertain place, in optioned it for film and it was chosen as kulturhus, Norway which nightly blackouts conceal secret one of the Observers Debuts of the Year for liaisons. Over the course of one 2017. Gail lives in . momentous term, David and Evert forge an unlikely friendship that will colour their lives for decades to come . . .

www.dublinliteraryaward.ie 17 Sleeps Standing Moetu most important decision of her life. And it’s money and a dog in tow they run away and Witi Ihimaera a decision she can only make on her own... buy ‘Baby’, an old boat docked in the Bay of Islands, where Cynthia dreams they will Translated from the Māori by Hemi Kelly E.L. James is a former TV executive, wife live in a state of love. But strange events on and mother of two based in West London. NOMINATED BY: an empty island turn their life together in a Since early childhood she dreamed of Auckland Libraries, New Zealand different direction. Wellington City Libraries, New Zealand writing stories that readers would fall in love with but put those dreams on hold to Baby is a sunburnt psychological thriller of During three days in focus on her family and career. She finally obsession and escape by one of the most THE 2019 LONGLIST 2019 THE 1864, 300 Māori plucked up the courage to put pen to paper exciting new voices in New Zealand fiction. men, women and with her first novel Fifty Shades of Grey. children fought an Annaleese Jochems was born in 1994 and Imperial army and grew up in Northland. She won the 2016 captured the Adam Prize from the International Institute imagination of the The Stone Sky of Modern Letters for Baby, which is her world. The battle N.K. Jemisin first book marked the end of NOMINATED BY: the Land Wars in Richland Library, Columbia, USA the Waikato and First Snow, Last Light resulted in vast Essun has inherited Wayne Johnson tracts of land being confiscated for the phenomenal European settlement. Instead of following power of Alabaster NOMINATED BY: the usual standpoint of the victors, this Tenring. With it, she Newfoundland & Labrador Public Libraries, book takes a Māori perspective, which hopes to find her Canada views the battle through the eyes of a daughter Nassun Ned Vatcher, only 16-year-old boy named Moetu. and forge a world in 14, ambles home which every outcast Alongside the novella are non-fiction from school in the child can grow up narratives from Māori eyewitnesses, chill hush that safe. For Nassun, together with images and a Māori precedes the first her mother’s translation by Hemi Kelly, further giving storm of the winter mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. voice to and illuminating the people who of 1936 to find the She has seen the evil of the world, and tried to protect their culture and land. house locked, the accepted what her mother will not admit: family car missing, Witi Ihimaera was the first Māori to that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be and his parents publish a novel, Tangi, in 1973. He has cleansed, only destroyed. gone without a gone on to become one of New Zealand’s The Broken Earth trilogy begins with The trace. From that leading writers, exploring Māori stories and Fifth Season, continues in The Obelisk point on, his life is driven by the need to find history through literature, theatre and film. Gate and concludes with The Stone Sky - out what happened to the Vanished The first volume of his memoir, Māori Boy, out now. Vatchers. His father, Edgar, born to a poor won the Ockham Award for best non-fiction family of fishermen, had risen to become in 2016. N.K. Jemisin is an author of speculative the right-hand man to the colony’s prime fiction short stories and novels who lives minister, then suffered an unexpected fall and writes in Brooklyn, NY. In 2016, she from grace. Were he and his wife became the first black person to win the Fifty Shades Darker murdered? Was it suicide? Had they run Best Novel Hugo for The Fifth Season. In E.L. James away? If so, why had they left their only 2017, she won Best Novel again, for The child behind? NOMINATED BY: Obelisk Gate. National Library Service of Barbados, Only Wayne Johnston could create Bridgetown such larger-than-life, mythic characters embroiled in events that leave us Daunted by the dark Baby contemplating not only their tragedies and secrets of the Annaleese Jochems triumphs, but the forces that compel us all tormented young to act in ways that surprise and sometimes entrepreneur NOMINATED BY: terrify us. Christian Grey, Ana Christchurch City Libraries, New Zealand Steele has broken Wayne Johnson’s #1 nationally bestselling Cynthia can off their relationship novels include The Divine Ryans, A World understand how to start a new Elsewhere, The Custodian of Paradise, The Anahera feels just career with a US Navigator of New York and The Colony of by looking at her publishing house. Unrequited Dreams. Johnston is also the body. But desire for Grey author of the Charles Taylor Prize-winning still dominates her Cynthia is twenty- and bestselling memoir, Baltimore’s every waking thought, and when he one, bored and Mansion. He lives in Toronto. proposes a new arrangement, she cannot desperately waiting resist. Soon she is learning more about the for something big harrowing past of her damaged, driven and to happen. Her demanding Fifty Shades than she ever striking fitness thought possible. But while Grey wrestles instructor, Anahera, is ready to throw in the with his inner demons, Ana must make the towel on her job and marriage. With stolen

18 www.dublinliteraryaward.ie THE 2019LONGLIST The Music Shop Over philosophical conversations about On retreat in the Rachel Joyce the nature of love, life and death, and the wintry Alps with his deliciousness of bacon, the pair form an family, a writer is NOMINATED BY: intense and emotional bond. Will it be optimistic about Tampere City Library, Finland enough to see Jakub through a clash with completing the It is 1988. Frank secret Russian rivals and return him safely sequel to his owns a music shop. to Earth for a second chance with Lenka? breakthrough film. Nothing to disturb It is jam-packed Jaroslav Kalfař was born and raised in him except the wind with records of Prague, Czech Republic, and immigrated whispering around every speed, size to the United States at the age of fifteen. their glassy house. and genre. Classical, He earned an MFA at New York University, The perfect place to jazz, punk – as long where he was a Goldwater Fellow and one focus. Intruding on that peace of mind, the as it’s vinyl he sells of three nominees for the inaugural E. L. demands of his four-year-old daughter it. Day after day Doctorow Fellowship. He lives in Brooklyn. Frank finds his splinter open long-simmering arguments customers the with his wife. I love her, he writes in the music they need. notebook intended for his script. Why do Then into his life walks Ilse Brauchmann. English Animals we fight all the time? Ilse asks Frank to teach her about music. Laura Kaye Then the words start to appear in his His instinct is to turn and run. And yet he is notebook; the words he didn’t write… NOMINATED BY drawn to this strangely still, mysterious Stadtbücherei Frankfurt am Main, Germany woman with her pea-green coat and her Familiar and forbidding by turns, this is an electrifying experiment in form by one eyes as black as vinyl. But Ilse is not what When Mirka gets a of Europe’s boldest writers. The ordinary she seems. And Frank has old wounds that job in a country struggles of a marriage transform, in threaten to re-open and a past he will never house in rural Kehlmann’s hands, into a twisted fable that leave behind ... England, she has stays darkly in the mind. no idea of the Rachel Joyce is the author of struggle she faces the international bestsellers Perfect, The Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich and to make sense of a Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy lives in Vienna, Berlin and New York. He very English couple, and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, has published six novels: Measuring the and a way of life which was translated into 34 languages. World, Me & Kaminski, Fame and F and that is entirely alien She is the writer of over 30 original has won numerous prizes. Measuring to her. Richard and afternoon plays and classic adaptations for the World was translated into more than Sophie are chaotic, BBC Radio 4. Rachel Joyce lives with her forty languages and is one of the biggest drunken, frequently outrageous but also family in Gloucestershire. successes in post-war German literature. warm, generous and kind to Mirka, despite their argumentative and turbulent marriage. Spaceman of Bohemia Mirka is swiftly commandeered by Richard Of Darkness Jaroslav Kalfař for his latest money-making enterprise, Josefine Klougart taxidermy, and soon surpasses him in skill. Translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken NOMINATED BY: After a traumatic break two years ago with Městská knihovna Třinec, Czech Republic her family in Slovakia, Mirka finds to her NOMINATED BY: surprise that she is happy at Fairmont Hall. Aarhus Kommunes Biblioteker, Denmark Orphaned as a boy, But when she tells Sophie that she is gay, raised in the Czech In this genre- everything she values is put in danger and countryside by his bending she must learn the hard way what she really doting apocalyptic novel believes in. grandparents, Jakub Josefine Klougart Procházka has risen Laura Kaye grew up in rural Oxfordshire fuses myriad from small-time and lives in London. English Animals is her literary styles to scientist to become first book. breathtaking the country’s first effect in poetic astronaut. When a meditations on life dangerous solo and death mission to Venus You Should Have Left interspersed with offers him both the chance at heroism he’s Daniel Kehlmann haunting imagery. dreamt of, and a way to atone for his Translated from the German by Her experimental novel asks readers to father’s sins as a Communist informer, he Ross Benjamin reconsider death, asserting sorrow and ventures boldly into the vast unknown. But loss as beautiful and necessary aspects NOMINATED BY: in so doing, he leaves behind his devoted of living. Büchereien Wien, Austria wife, Lenka, whose love, he realizes too late, Stadtbibliothek Bremen, Germany Hailed as “the Virginia Woolf of he has sacrificed on the altar of his Scandinavia,” Klougart mixes prose, lyric ambitions. essay, drama, poetry, and images to Alone in Deep Space, Jakub discovers breathtaking effect in her writing, and Of a possibly imaginary giant alien spider, Darkness, coming on the heels of Open who becomes his unlikely companion. Letter’s release of Klougart’s English-

www.dublinliteraryaward.ie 19 language debut One of Us is Sleeping, An epic, humorous foremost literary novelist. marks the arrival of a wholly new literary and quite One of Italy’s most critically acclaimed talent and original voice in world literature. unique historical contemporary novelists, Nicola Lagioia novel which looks at Josefine Klougart is the author of five has been the recipient of the Volponi, Central Europe in novels, two were nominated for the Nordic Straniero, and Viareggio awards, in addition the 16th century – a Council Literature Prize, and she received to the Strega. In 2010 he was named one territory plagued by the Danish Royal Prize for Culture in 2011 of Italy’s best writers under forty. He lives ceaseless battles with the committee stating that she is ‘one in Rome. Ferocity is his English-language

THE 2019 LONGLIST 2019 THE for supremacy of the most important writers, not just of her debut. between the generation, but of her time’. Protestant political elite and the ruling Catholic Habsburg Monarchy, as well as The Choke The Leavers the ongoing battle between the sexes. In Lisa Ko Kumerdej’s wonderful saga, history and fiction intertwine in wavelike fashion, NOMINATED BY: NOMINATED BY: producing a colourful portrait of the National Library of Australia, Canberra Kansas City Public Library, USA Renaissance; permeated by humanist LINC Tasmania, Hobart, Australia attempts to resurrect antiquity through art, State Library of Victoria, One morning, new scientific findings, and spirited State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Deming Guo’s philosophical and theological debates. Australia mother, Polly, an undocumented Mojca Kumerdej is a Slovene writer, Abandoned by her Chinese immigrant, philosopher and critic. She also works as mother and only goes to her job at a the cultural correspondent for the daily occasionally visited nail salon—and newspaper Delo. Her stories have been by her secretive never comes translated into many languages and have father, Justine is home. With his been published in various Slovene and raised by her pop, a mother gone, foreign literary journals and anthologies. man tormented by eleven-year-old In 2017, Kumerdej received the Prešeren visions of the Deming is left Award for her second novel Kronosova Burma Railway. mystified and bereft. Eventually adopted by žetev (The Harvest of Chronos). Justine finds a pair of well-meaning white professors, sanctuary in The Deming is moved from the Bronx to a small Choke, where the town upstate and renamed Daniel banks of the Murray River are so narrow it Wilkinson. But far from all he’s ever known, Ferocity seems they might touch - a place of Daniel struggles to reconcile his Nicola Lagioia staggering natural beauty. But the river adoptive parents’ desire that he assimilate Translated from the Italian by can’t protect Justine from danger. Her father with his memories of his mother and the Antony Shugaar is a criminal, and the world he exposes her community he left behind. to can be lethal. NOMINATED BY: Set in New York and China, The Leavers is a Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma, Italy She learns that she has to make sense of it vivid examination of borders and belonging. State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, on her own. She must hang on to friendship It’s a moving story of how a boy comes Australia when it comes, she must hide when she into his own when everything he loves is has to, and ultimately she must fight back. Southern Italy, the taken away, and how a mother learns to live 1980s. On a hot The Choke is a brilliant, haunting novel with the mistakes of the past. summer’s night about a child navigating an often dark and Lisa Ko’s fiction has appeared in Best under a full moon, uncaring world of male power and violence, American Short Stories 2016, Apogee far from the outlying in which grown-ups can’t be trusted and Journal, Narrative, Copper Nickel, the Asian neighbourhoods of comfort can only be found in nature. Pacific American Journal, and elsewhere. a southern Italian Sofie Laguna won the 2018 Indie Book She was born in New York City, where she metropolis, Clara Award for Fiction for The Choke and her now lives. stumbles naked, second novel for adults, The Eye of the dazed, and bloodied Sheep - shortlisted for the - won down a major the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award. She highway. When she lives in Melbourne with her husband and The Harvest of Chronos dies no-one is able to say exactly how or their two sons. Mojca Kumerdej why, but her brother cannot free himself Translated from the Slovene by Rawley Grau from her memory or from the questions surrounding her death. The more he learns NOMINATED BY: A Poison Apple Mestna knjižnica Ljubljana, Slovenia about her life and death, the more he uncovers the moral decay at the core of his Michel Laub family’s ascent to social prominence. At Translated from the Portuguese by once an intimate family saga, a history of an Daniel Hahn entire region, and a portrait of the moral NOMINATED BY: and political corruption of a whole Biblioteca Demonstrativa Maria da society, Ferocity is an exhilarating, Conceição Moreira Salles, Brasilia, Brazil ambitious, and vivid work of fiction by Italy’s

20 www.dublinliteraryaward.ie THE 2019LONGLIST In this sinuous fairy tale imaginatively explores parental The Barrowfields meditation on obsession, spousal love, and the secrets Phillip Lewis passion, youth and that make strangers out of the people we guilt, a man looks love the most. It’s a thrilling and emotionally NOMINATED BY: back over twenty devastating journey through the gruesome Wojewódzka Biblioteka Publiczna im. years to his legacies that threaten to devour us and the Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego w Łodzi, relationship with his homely, messy magic that saves us, if we’re Poland first love, Valeria, lucky. Just before Henry and its tragic climax. Victor LaValle is the author of six previous Aster’s birth, his They both had works of fiction: three novels, two novellas, father, a frustrated tickets to Nirvana in and a collection of short stories. His novels novelist and lawyer, 1993, the only gig have been included in best-of-the-year lists reluctantly returns the band ever played in Brazil. But he was by Book Review, Los to the remote North on military service and failed to join her. Angeles Times, among others. He lives in Carolina mountains She was there with his best friend instead. New York City with his wife and kids and in which he was Consumed by insecurities and tricks of teaches at Columbia University. improbably raised memory, he continues to feel, two decades and installs his later, that one fateful night has defined his young family in a entire adult life. Entwining this most gothic mansion - personal story with seminal events of the Pachinko nicknamed ‘the vulture house’ - worthy of 1990s, A Poison Apple circles around and Min Jin Lee his hero Edgar Allan Poe. There, Henry back to some of the biggest questions: grows up under the desk of this fierce and NOMINATED BY: what is a life worth? What does it mean to brilliant man. But when a death in the family Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek, Belgium really commit to living? And can we ever tips his father toward a fearsome Wojewódzka Biblioteka Publiczna im. break free of the past? unravelling, what was once a young son’s Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego w Łodzi, Michel Laub is a writer and journalist, and reverence is poisoned, and Henry flees, not Poland was named one of Granta’s twenty ‘Best to return until years later when he, too, must New Hampshire State Library, Concord, of Young Brazilian Novelists’. Diary of the go home again. USA Fall, which received the Brasilia Award, Ferguson Library, Stamford, USA Mesmeric in its prose and mythic in its was his first novel to appear in English. It sweep, The Barrowfields is an extraordinary Yeongdo, Korea won the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary debut about the darker side of devotion, 1911. In a small Prize 2015 and was shortlisted for the the limits of forgiveness, and the reparative fishing village on International Dublin Literary Award 2016. power of shared pasts. the banks of the East Sea, a Phillip Lewis was born and raised in a club-footed, small town called West Jefferson in the The Changeling cleft-lipped man mountains of North Carolina. He attended Victor LaValle marries a fifteen- the University of North Carolina at Chapel year-old girl. The Hill and later received a law degree from NOMINATED BY: couple have one Campbell University. The Seattle Public Library, USA child, their beloved When Apollo daughter Sunja. Kagwa’s father When Sunja falls pregnant by a married disappeared, all he yakuza, the family face ruin. But then Isak, a Escape from Sunset Grove left his son were Christian minister, offers her a chance of Minna Lindgren strange recurring salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife. Translated from the Finnish by dreams and a box Kristian London Following a man she barely knows to of books stamped a hostile country in which she has no NOMINATED BY: with the word friends, no home, and whose language Helsinki City Library, Finland IMPROBABILIA. she cannot speak, Sunja’s salvation is just Now Apollo is a It’s not easy sharing the beginning of her story. Through eight father himself—and a flat. Especially decades and four generations, Pachinko is as he and his wife, when you’re 95 an epic tale of family, identity, love, death Emma, are settling into their new lives as years old. Change is and survival. parents, exhaustion and anxiety start to afoot at Sunset take their toll. Apollo’s old dreams return Min Jin Lee is a Korean-American author Grove retirement and Emma begins acting odd. Irritable and and journalist. Born in Seoul, her family home. Under threat disconnected from their new baby boy, at moved to America when she was seven. from falling first Emma seems to be exhibiting signs of She worked as a lawyer before deciding to masonry, best postpartum depression, but it quickly write full time. friends Irma and becomes clear that her go even Siiri are forced out deeper. Before Apollo can do anything to of their home to help, Emma commits a horrific act— negotiate twenty-first-century living in the beyond any parent’s comprehension—and centre of Helsinki. Their new surroundings vanishes, seemingly into thin air. throw up an endless number of daily challenges, from caring for the ailing This captivating retelling of a classic Anna-Lisa to the mystery of which of the

www.dublinliteraryaward.ie 21 many remotes controls the TV. The pair are The History of Bees memory and pain...this is a novel of great joined by growing numbers of friends in Maja Lunde ambition by an artist at the height of his their flat-share, and their new close- Translated from the Norwegian by powers’ Colm Tóibín. A retired couple, quarters living raises some unexpected Diane Oatley Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly to questions. for a midwinter break. A to refresh NOMINATED BY: the senses, to see the sights and to As the Lavender Ladies begin to dig a little Katona József Library of Bács-Kiskun generally take stock of what remains of their deeper, they find themselves following a County, Kecskemét, Hungary lives. But amongst the wintry streets and icy trail of corruption, deceit and intimidation Solvberget, Stavanger bibliotek og

THE 2019 LONGLIST 2019 THE canals we see their relationship fracturing that might just lead them to their own front kulturhus, Norway beneath the surface. And when memories door... England, 1852. re-emerge of a troubled time in their native Minna Lindgren is a well-known journalist William is a Ireland things begin to fall apart. As their and an expert of classical music. She is the biologist and seed midwinter break comes to an end, we also the author of several non-fiction books. merchant, who sets understand how far apart they are – and Minna was inspired to write The Lavender out to build a new can only watch as they struggle to save Ladies Detective Agency after researching type of beehive— themselves. the treatment of the elderly in Finland for a one that will give Bernard MacLaverty lives in Glasgow. magazine article. both him and his He has written five collections of stories children honour and four other novels, including Grace and fame. Notes which was shortlisted for the Booker The End of Eddy United States, 2007. Prize and won the Saltire Scottish Book of Édouard Louis George is a beekeeper fighting an uphill the Year Award. battle against modern farming, but hopes Translated from the French by that his son can be their salvation. Michael Lucey China, 2098. Tao hand paints pollen onto NOMINATED BY: The Temptation to be Happy the fruit trees now that the bees have long Redbridge Libraries, London, UK Lorenzo Marone since disappeared. When Tao’s young son Translated from the Italian by Édouard Louis is taken away by the authorities after a Shaun Whiteside grew up in a tragic accident, she sets out on a gruelling village in northern journey to find out what happened to him. NOMINATED BY: France where Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma, Italy Haunting, illuminating, and deftly many live below written, The History of Bees joins “the past, Cesare is a the poverty line. the present, and a terrifying future in a seventy-seven-year- His bestselling riveting story as complex as a honeycomb” old widower and debut novel about (Bryn Greenwood) that is just as much cynical life there, The End about the powerful bond between troublemaker. He of Eddy, has children and parents as it is about our very has lived his whole sparked debate on relationship to nature and humanity. life by his own rules social inequality, and has no sexuality and violence. Maja Lunde is a Norwegian author and intention of screenwriter. She has written ten books for It is an extraordinary portrait of escaping changing now. children and young adults. The History of from an unbearable childhood, inspired by Aside from an Bees is her first novel for adults. She lives the author’s own. Written with an openness intermittent fling with her husband and three children in and compassionate intelligence, ultimately, with a nurse called Rossana, he spends his Oslo. it asks, how can we create our own days avoiding the old cat lady next door and freedom? screening calls from his children.

Édouard Louis is the author of two Midwinter Break But when the enigmatic Emma moves in novels and the editor of a book on the Bernard MacLaverty next door with her strange and sinister social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. His work husband, Cesare suspects there is more has appeared in The New York Times, NOMINATED BY: to their relationship than meets the eye. The Guardian and Freeman’s. His first Galway Public Libraries, Ireland He enlists the other residents to help him novel, The End of Eddy, was translated Universitätsbibliothek Bern, Switzerland investigate and soon discovers a new and into more than twenty-five languages, and Redbridge Libraries, London, UK unexpected sense of purpose that leads has made him one of the most celebrated Newcastle Libraries, UK him to risk everything for a future he had writers of his generation. Milwaukee Public Library, USA never thought possible. San Diego Public Library, USA Laced with humour and pathos in equal ‘Midwinter Break is measure, this is a delightful book to savour, a work of for young and old alike. extraordinary emotional precision Lorenzo Marone was born in 1974. His and sympathy, first novel, The Temptation to Be Happy, about coming to is a major bestseller in Italy and has terms – to an been translated into fifteen languages. honest reckoning – Lorenzo Marone lives in Naples with his with love and the wife and son. loss of love, with 22 www.dublinliteraryaward.ie THE 2019LONGLIST All our Wrong Todays Sally, the unborn baby, who becomes The Blood Miracles Elan Mastai the centre of the story to the nuns whose Lisa McInerney personalities we come to know and NOMINATED BY: love to the neighbourhood families with NOMINATED BY: Stockholm Public Library, Sweden whose lives they are entwined, are all Galway Public Libraries, Ireland It’s 2016, and in rendered with extraordinary sympathy Like all twenty-year- Tom Barren’s world, and McDermott’s trademark lucidity and olds, Ryan Cusack technology has intelligence. is trying to get his solved all of Alice McDermott is the author of several head around who humanity’s novels, including After This; Child of My he is. problems—there’s Heart; Charming Billy, winner of the 1998 This is not a good no war, no poverty, National Book Award. That Night, At time for his boss no under-ripe Weddings and Wakes, and After This were to exploit his dual avocados. all finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. McDermott heritage by opening Unfortunately, Tom lives with her family outside Washington, a new black market isn’t happy. He’s D.C. route from Italy to lost the girl of his Ireland. It is certainly not a good time for his dreams. And what do you do when you’re adored girlfriend to decide he’s irreparably heartbroken and have a time machine? corrupted. And he really wishes he hadn’t Something stupid. Reservoir 13 accidentally caught the eye of an ornery Finding himself stranded in a terrible Jon McGregor grandmother who fancies herself his alternate reality—which we immediately NOMINATED BY: saviour. recognize as our 2016—Tom is desperate Muntpunt, Brussels, Belgium There may be a way clear of the chaos in to fix his mistake and go home. 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From in Winter Papers, Stinging Fly, Granta Elan Mastai was born in Vancouver and the top of the moor and on BBC Radio 4, and in the lives in Toronto with his wife and children. when people anthologies Beyond The Centre, The Long He is an award-winning screenwriter. All turned they could Gaze Back and Town and Country. Her Our Wrong Todays is his first novel. see the village: the debut novel, The Glorious Heresies, won beech wood and the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2016 the allotments, the and the Desmond Elliott Prize. church tower and The Ninth Hour the cricket ground, Alice McDermott the river and the NOMINATED BY: quarry and the Ithaca Toronto Public Library, Canada cement works by the main road into town. Alan McMonagle Milwaukee Public Library, USA There was so much ground to cover, and plenty of places she could be …Midwinter NOMINATED BY: On a dim winter in the early years of this century. A teenage Dublin City Public Libraries, Ireland afternoon, a young girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills Galway Public Libraries, Ireland Irish immigrant at the heart of England. The villagers are This was the opens the gas taps called up to join the search, fanning out summer after all the in his Brooklyn across the moors as the police set up money disappeared. tenement. He is roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters One minute it was determined to descends on their usually quiet home. here. The next it prove—to the had vanished. All of subway bosses who Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives it. Without trace... have recently fired haunted by one family’s loss; of the rhythms him, to his pregnant of the natural world and the repeated Summer 2009, and wife—“that the human gift for violence, unfolding over eleven-year-old hours of his life belong to himself alone.” In thirteen years as the aftershocks of a Jason Lowry is the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister stranger’s tragedy refuse to subside. preoccupied with St. Savior, an aging nun appears, unbidden, Jon McGregor is the author of four novels thoughts of the Da he has never known. In to direct the way forward for his widow and and a story collection. He is the winner of the meantime, his vodka-swilling, swings- his unborn child. the IMPAC Dublin Literature Prize, Betty from-the-hip Ma is busy entertaining her latest boyfriend and indulging her fondness We begin deep inside Catholic Brooklyn, Trask Prize, and Somerset Maugham Award, for joyriding. Jason escapes to the Swamp: in the early part of the twentieth century. and has twice been longlisted for the Man a mysteriously rising pool of fetid water on Yet his suicide, although never spoken of, Booker Prize. He is Professor of Creative the outskirts of the town. There, he meets reverberates through many lives over the Writing at the University of Nottingham. the girl, a being as lost as himself, and with decades. The characters we meet, from

www.dublinliteraryaward.ie 23 even less regard for reality. Together, they Two men with a of a family living on the fringes of conjure exotic adventures - from ancient passion for vinyl contemporary society, as well as a gripping Egypt to the search for Ithaca, home of create a society for exploration of the disturbing actions people Odysseus. But what begin as innocent the appreciation of are capable of when pushed to their limits. flights of fancy soon become forays into records. Their aim Fiona Mozley was born in Hackney hazardous territory. is simple: to elevate but grew up in York and studied at the art of listening Alan McMonagle has written for radio, Cambridge. Elmet is her first novel and was by doing so in published two collections of short stories - shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017, a

THE 2019 LONGLIST 2019 THE forensic detail. The both of which were nominated for the Frank Somerset Maugham Award and the Royal society enjoys O’Connor Award - and contributed stories Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. moderate success to many journals in Ireland and North in the back room of America. Ithaca is his first novel. their local pub, The Half Moon, with other enthusiasts drawn to the initial promise of Like a Fading Shadow the weekly gathering. Antonio Muñoz Molina Gather the Daughters However, as the club gains popularity, its Translated from the Spanish by Jennie Melamed founder’s uncompromising dogma results Camilo A. Ramirez in a schism within the movement and soon NOMINATED BY: a counter group forms. Then the arrival of a NOMINATED BY: Stockholm Public Library, Sweden young woman called Alice further fractures Biblioteca de Andalucía, Granada, Spain Years ago, just the unity of the vulnerable society. As rifts A hypnotic novel before the country are forged and gulfs widen, Magnus Mills intertwining the was incinerated to examines the surreal nature of ordinary author’s past with wasteland, ten men lives. The master of the comic deadpan James Earl Ray’s and their families returns for his ninth novel, a spectacularly attempt to escape colonized an island disingenuous exploration of power, after shooting off the coast. They fanaticism and really, really good records. Martin Luther King built a radical Magnus Mills is the author of The Field Jr. society of ancestor of the Cloth of Gold and eight other The year is 1968 worship, controlled novels, including The Restraint of Beasts, and James Earl Ray breeding, and the which won the McKitterick Prize and has just shot Martin strict rationing of was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize Luther King Jr. For two months he evades knowledge and history. and the Whitbread (now the Costa) First authorities, driving to Canada, securing The daughters of these men are wives-in- Novel Award in 1999. His books have been a fake passport, and flying to London, all training. At the first sign of puberty, they translated into twenty languages. while relishing the media’s confusion face their Summer of Fruition, a ritualistic about his location and his image on the season that drags them from adolescence FBI’s Most Wanted list. Eventually he lands to matrimony. They have children, who have at the Hotel Portugal in , where children, and when they are no longer Elmet he anxiously awaits a visa to Angola. But useful, they take their final draught and die. Fiona Mozley the visa never comes, and for his last ten But in the summer, the younger children NOMINATED BY: days of freedom, Ray walks around Lisbon, reign supreme. With the adults indoors and Münchner Stadtbibliothek, Germany paying for his pleasures and rehearsing his the pubescent in Fruition, the children live City Library of Rotterdam, The Netherlands fake identities. wildly–they fight over food and shelter, free Daniel is heading Using recently declassified FBI files, of their fathers’ hands and their mothers’ north. He is looking Antonio Muñoz Molina reconstructs Ray’s despair. And it is at the end of one summer for someone. The final steps through the Portuguese capital, that little Caitlin Jacob sees something so simplicity of his taking us inside his feverish mind, troubled horrifying, so contradictory to the laws of early life with Daddy past, and infamous crime. the island, that she must share it with the and Cathy has others. Antonio Muñoz Molina is the author turned menacing of more than a dozen novels. He is the Jennie Melamed is a psychiatric nurse and fearful. They recipient of numerous prizes and awards, practitioner who specializes in working with lived apart in the including Spain’s National Narrative Prize, traumatized children. She lives in Seattle house that Daddy the Planeta Prize, and the Príncipe de with her husband and their two dogs. built for them in the Asturias Prize. He lives in and New woods with his bare York City. hands. Sometimes, their father disappeared, and would return with a rage The Forensic Records Society in his eyes. But when he was at home, he Magnus Mills was at peace. He told them that the little The Sixteen Trees of the Somme Lars Mytting NOMINATED BY: copse in Elmet was theirs alone. But that Translated from the Norwegian by Tampere City Library, Finland wasn’t true. Local men, greedy and watchful, began to circle like vultures. Paul Russell Grant

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24 www.dublinliteraryaward.ie THE 2019LONGLIST Edvard grows up on a disregard for the rules that threatens to Gus Voorhees is a a remote mountain upend this carefully ordered community. pioneer in the farmstead in advancement of Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is Norway with his women’s determined to uncover the secrets in Mia’s taciturn grandfather, reproductive rights past. But her obsession will come at an Sverre. The death of and a controversial unexpected and devastating cost... his parents, when abortion provider in he was three years Celeste Ng attended Harvard University the American old, has always and earned an MFA from the University of Midwest. One been shrouded in Michigan. Her debut novel, Everything I morning as he mystery - he has Never Told You, won a number of awards. arrives at his clinic, never been told She is a 2016 National Endowment for the he is ambushed by how or where it took place and has only a Arts Fellow, and she lives in Cambridge, a hardline Christian, Luther Dunphy, and distant memory of his mother. Massachusetts shot dead.

But he knows that the fate of his The killing leaves in its wake two fatherless grandfather’s brother, Einar, is somehow families: the Voorheeses, who are affluent, bound up with this mystery. Edvard’s Mirror, Shoulder, Signal highly educated, secular and pro-choice, desperate quest to unlock the family’s Dorthe Nors and the Dunphys, their opposite on all counts. tragic secrets takes him on a long journey Translated from the Danish by - from Norway to the Shetlands, and to the Misha Hoekstra When the daughters of the two families, battlefields of France - to the discovery of a Naomi Voorhees and Dawn Dunphy, very unusual inheritance. The Sixteen Trees NOMINATED BY: glimpse each other at the trial of Luther of the Somme is about the love of wood Deichmanske Bibliotek, Oslo, Norway Dunphy, their initial response is mutual and finding your own self, a beautifully Dublin City Public Libraries, Ireland hatred. But their lives are tangled together intricate and moving tale that spans an Sonja’s over forty, forever by what has happened, and entire century. and she’s trying to throughout the years to come and the Lars Mytting was born in Fåvang, Norway. move in the right events that follow, neither can quite forget His novel Svøm med dem som drukner (The direction. She’s the other. Sixteen Trees of the Somme) was awarded learning to drive. Joyce Carol Oates is a novelist, critic, the Norwegian National Booksellers’ Award She’s joined a playwright, poet and author of short and has been bought for film. Norwegian meditation group. stories and one of America’s most highly Wood became an international bestseller, And she’s respected literary figures. She is the Roger and was the Bookseller Industry Awards attempting to S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2016. reconnect with her Humanities at Princeton University and a sister. recipient of the National Book Award and But her sister won’t return her calls. Her the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Little Fires Everywhere driving instructor won’t let her change gear. Short Fiction. And she’d rather eat cake than meditate. Celeste Ng As Sonja’s mind wanders back to the NOMINATED BY: dramatic landscapes of her childhood – Universitäts-und Landesbibliothek Bonn, The Dead House the singing whooper swans, the endless Germany Billy O’Callaghan sky – she starts to realise just how lost she Münchner Stadtbibliothek, Germany has become in the alienating streets of NOMINATED BY: Iowa City Public Library, USA . Cork City Libraries, Ireland The Seattle Public Library, USA But how can anyone find themselves when Perched on an In Shaker Heights, a there’s no one to ask for directions? incline, with the placid, progressive land spilling down suburb of Cleveland, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal is a poignant, to a glittering sea, everything is sharp-witted tale of one woman’s journey in sits a ruined meticulously search of herself cottage. It calls to planned, and no Dorthe Nors’ short stories have appeared Maggie Turner, who one embodies this in numerous international periodicals. She is running from her spirit more than is the first Danish writer ever to have a own demons. But Elena Richardson, story published in The New Yorker. Nors this house has a whose guiding has published four novels, a collection of long, grim history, principle is playing stories, and a novella. She lives in rural and has known by the rules. Jutland, Denmark. hard living and far too much death. In some Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and places, some things are better left single mother- who arrives in this idyllic undisturbed. A modern ghost story by a bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl. masterful writer. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than A Book of American Martyrs Billy O’Callaghan was born in Cork in 1974, just tenants: all four Richardson children Joyce Carol Oates and is the author of three previous short are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But NOMINATED BY: story collections: In Exile (2008) and In Too Mia carries with her a mysterious past, and Stadtbücherei Frankfurt am Main, Germany

www.dublinliteraryaward.ie 25 Deep (2009), and The Things We Lose, the As Hitler’s war Nearly seven decades later, the Rembrandt Things We Leave Behind (2013). His work looms, famous reappears in an auction house in London, has been broadcast on RTE Radio One’s Australian artist prompting Daniel’s son to travel to Cuba Book On One, Sunday Miscellany and the Roland Griffin to track down the story of his family’s lost Francis MacManus Awards series. He has returns home from masterpiece. He hires the down-on-his- also been short-listed on four occasions London with his luck private detective Mario Conde, and for the RTE/P.J. O’Connor Award for Radio family to live a together they navigate a web of deception Drama. Over the past fifteen years, his short simple life of shared and violence in the morally complex city of plums and low-cut

THE 2019 LONGLIST 2019 THE stories have appeared in literary magazines Havana. and journals around the world. lawns in the Leonardo Padura was born in Havana, suburbs. Cuba. He is the author of several novels, In the yard: a daughter, and a son, Hal, two volumes of short stories, and several Mama’s Maze growing up with a preoccupied father nonfiction collections. His novels featuring Agnes Ong who is always out in his shed stretching the detective Mario Conde have been canvases and painting outback pubs. translated into many languages and have NOMINATED BY: Everything is a picture, a symbol. Even Hal. won literary prizes around the world. The National Library of Malaysia, As the years pass, Roland learns that Hal Kuala Lumpar is unable to control his own thoughts, Fifteen year old Lin impulses, behaviour. The boy becomes the Uncertain Weights and has to deal with the destroyer of family. The neighbourhood Measures stigma of having a is enlisted to help Hal find a way forward. Jocelyn Parr mentally ill mother Child actor, a clocker at Cheltenham at home. She also Racecourse, an apprentice race caller. NOMINATED BY: has to put up with Incredible Floridas describes Hal’s Saint John Free Public Library, Canada bullies. Her only attempts at adulthood, love, religion, and Moscow, 1921. true friend is the hardest thing of all: gaining his father’s Tatiana and Sasha sixteen year old approval. meet in a bookstore martial arts student Stephen Orr is the author of six novels. He the night it is Sam. Just as she contributes essays and features to several bombed. They fall loses all hope that magazines, journals and newspapers. His in love. A promising her mother would ever recover, Lin finds a last novel The Hands was longlisted for young scientist, way into an imaginary world in her mother’s the 2016 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Tatiana follows her mind and meets with its strange inhabitants Stephen lives with his family in Adelaide. mentor, Dr. –including the characters in her mother’s Bekhterev, to the stories. And two of them have their eyes on Institut Mozga. She Lin. Lin discovers that her mother is thrives in the trapped in a maze in this fantasy world. Heretics state-sponsored research institute, but Despite life threatening dangers, she Leonardo Padura Sasha, an artist, feels left behind in this ventures deeper into the world with Sam’s Translated from the Spanish by new world. A rift between them grows. help to save her mother. Will they succeed? Anna Kushner When Bekhterev suddenly dies, Tatiana is Agnes Ong Is a freelance writer who NOMINATED BY: prompted to speculate about the shadowy writes for small businesses when she’s not Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas, Mexico circumstances of his death. Disconcerted writing fiction. Her short stories have been City, Mexico and unable to find answers to her published in Love in Penang, an anthology questions, she plunges into doubt - about of short stories by Fixi Novo; Amok: An In 1939, the Saint her work as a scientist, her naiveté about Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Louis sails from the Revolution, her faith in the state, and Fiction; and Rambutan Literary, an online Hamburg into her relationship with Sasha. Provocative and digital literary and arts magazine Havana’s port with and compelling, Uncertain Weights and dedicated to showcasing Southeast Asian hundreds of Jewish Measures takes place in the heady days literature and art. refugees seeking of post-Revolution Russia, when belief in a asylum from the higher purpose was everything. Nazi regime. From Incredible Floridas the docks, nine- Jocelyn Parr was born in New Zealand, Stephen Orr year-old Daniel but grew up on Canada’s West Coast. Her Kaminsky watches writing has been published in France, NOMINATED BY: as the passengers, Germany, and Canada. She now lives in State Library of South Australia, Adelaide including his mother, father, and sister, Montreal, where she teaches history at become embroiled in a fiasco of Cuban Dawson College. corruption. But the Kaminskys have a treasure that they hope will save them: a small Rembrandt portrait of Christ. Yet six days later the vessel is forced to leave the harbour with the family, bound for the horrors of Europe. The Kaminskys, along with their priceless heirloom, disappear.

26 www.dublinliteraryaward.ie THE 2019LONGLIST Next Year, for Sure oblivion awaits. But all Milo really wants The Bedlam Stacks Zoey Leigh Peterson is to fall forever into the arms of Death. Or Natasha Pulley Suzie, as he calls her. NOMINATED BY: NOMINATED BY: Vancouver Public Library, Canada But Reincarnation Blues is more than a Tampere City Library, Finland great love story: Every journey from cradle After nine years to grave offers Milo more pieces of the In uncharted Peru, together, Kathryn great cosmic puzzle—if only he can piece the holy town of and Chris have the them together. Bedlam stands at sort of relationship the edge of a most would envy. Michael Poore’s short fiction has mysterious forest. When Chris tells appeared in Glimmer Train, Southern Deep within are Kathryn about his Review, Agni, Fiction, and Asimov’s. His cinchona trees, attraction to Emily, a first novel, Up Jumps the Devil, was hailed whose bark yields vivacious young by The New York Review of Books as the only known woman he sees “an elegiac masterpiece.” Poore lives treatment for often at the in Highland, Indiana, with his wife and malaria. laundromat, daughter. In 1859, across the Kathryn encourages him to ask her out on a Pacific, India is ravaged by the disease. In date--certain that her bond with Chris is desperation, the India Office dispatches the strong enough to weather whatever may No One is Coming to Save Us injured expeditionary Merrick Tremayne to come. Bedlam, under orders to return with Stephenie Powell Watts cinchona cuttings. But there he meets Next Year, For Sure tracks the tumultuous, NOMINATED BY: Raphael, an enigmatic priest who is the key revelatory and often very funny year that The Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton to a secret which will prove more valuable follows. When Chris’s romance with Emily County, USA than they could ever have imagined. evolves beyond what anyone anticipated, both Chris and Kathryn are invited into JJ Ferguson has Natasha Pulley studied English Literature Emily’s communal home, where Kathryn returned home to at Oxford University. Her first novel, The will discover new possibilities of her own. In Pinewood, North Watchmaker of Filigree Street, was an the confusions, passions and upheavals of Carolina, to build international bestseller, won a Betty Trask their new lives, both Kathryn and Chris will his dream house Award and was shortlisted for the Authors’ be forced to reconsider their past and what and to pursue his Club Best First Novel Award. She lives in they thought they knew about love. high school Bath. sweetheart, Ava. Zoey Leigh Peterson was born in England, But as he reenters grew up in the United States and lives in his former world, Canada. She is the recipient of the Far where factories are The Death of the Perfect Horizons Award for Short Fiction and the in decline, he’s Sentence Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award. Next Year, startled to find that the people he once Rein Raud For Sure is her first novel. knew and loved have changed just as much Translated from the Estonian by as he has. Matthew Hyde

JJ’s return—and his plans to build a huge NOMINATED BY: Reincarnation Blues mansion overlooking Pinewood and woo Tallinn Central Library, Estonia Michael Poore Ava—not only unsettles their family, but This thoughtful spy NOMINATED BY: stirs up the entire town. The ostentatious novel cum love Richland Library, Columbia, USA wealth that JJ has attained forces everyone story is set mainly in to consider the cards they’ve been dealt, Estonia during the A wildly imaginative what more they want and deserve, and how dying days of the novel about a man they might go about getting it. Can they Soviet Union, but who is reincarnated reorient their lives to align with their wishes also in Russia, over ten thousand rather than their current realities? Or are Finland, and lifetimes to be with they all already resigned to the rhythms of Sweden. A group of his one true love: the particular lives they lead? young pro- Death herself. Stephenie Powell Watts is an associate independence First we live. Then professor of English at Lehigh University, dissidents devise a we die. And then . . . and has won numerous awards. She was scheme for smuggling copies of KGB files we get another try? also a PEN/Hemingway finalist for her out of the country, and their fates become entangled, through family and romantic ties, Ten thousand short-story collection We Are Taking Only with security services never far behind tries, to be exact. Ten thousand lives to What We Need. them. Multiple viewpoints evoke the “get it right.” Answer all the Big Questions. curious minutiae of everyday life, offer wry Achieve Wisdom. And Become One with observations on the period through Everything. personal experience, and ask universal Milo has had 9,995 chances so far and has questions about how interpersonal just five more lives to earn a place in the relationships are affected when caught up cosmic soul. If he doesn’t make the cut, in momentous historical changes.

www.dublinliteraryaward.ie 27 This sometimes wistful examination of how Sparked by the Jane Robins began her career as a the Estonian Republic was reborn speaks description of a journalist with , The also of the courage and complex chemistry ‘Malay trollope’ in Independent, and the BBC. She has made of those who pushed against a regime W. Somerset a specialty of writing historical true crime whose then weakness could not have been Maugham’s story, and has a particular interest in the history of known. The Four forensics. She has published three books of Dutchmen, Mirandi nonfiction in the UK. More recently, she has Rein Raud graduated from the Leningrad Riwoe’s been a Fellow at the Royal Literary Fund. State University (now called Saint

THE 2019 LONGLIST 2019 THE novella, The Fish Petersburg State University) in 1985 in Girl, tells of an Japanese Studies and earned a PhD Indonesian girl degree in Literary Theory at the University whose life is Son of a Trickster of Helsinki in 1994. changed irrevocably when she moves from Eden Robinson a small fishing village to work in the house NOMINATED BY: of a Dutch merchant. There she finds both Calgary Public Library, Canada hardship and tenderness as her traditional Through the Lonesome Dark Ottawa Public Library, Canada past and colonial present collide. Paddy Richardson Vancouver Public Library, Canada Told with an exquisitely restrained voice NOMINATED BY: Everyone knows a and coloured with lush description, this Dunedin Public Libraries, New Zealand guy like Jared: the moving book will stay with you long after burnout kid in high Blackball, West the last page. school who sells Coast, pre-World Mirandi Riwoe is a Brisbane-based writer. weed cookies and War I. Three She has been shortlisted for Overland’s has a scary mom youngsters; Pansy, Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize, the who’s often wasted Clem and Otto. Life Josephine Ulrick Short Story Prize and the and wielding some had an idyllic Luke Bitmead Bursary. Her first novel, She kind of weapon. surface with a far be Damned, was released by Legend Press Jared does smoke from idyllic (UK) in 2017. Mirandi has a PhD in Creative and drink too much, underside for Writing and Literary Studies (QUT). and he does make youngsters in this the best cookies in town, and his mom is a mining town. As a mess, but he’s also a kid who has an World War immense capacity for compassion and an approaches, the harsh realities become White Bodies impulse to watch over people more than apparent — just because you are smart and Jane Robins twice his age. motivated there is no certainty that you can advance yourself in this world, especially if NOMINATED BY: Jared can’t count on his mom to stay sober you are a girl. Houston Public Library, USA and stick around to take care of him. He can’t rely on his dad to pay the bills and With a light hand on a dark time in history, Felix and Tilda support his new wife and step-daughter. Paddy Richardson navigates the territory seem like the Jared is only sixteen but feels like he is the between Denniston Rose and Birdsong perfect couple: one who must stabilize his family’s life, even with great skill. Characters you want to cry young and in love, a look out for his elderly neighbours. But he for battle on against themselves, family, financier and a struggles to keep everything afloat...and society and world events. beautiful up-and- sometimes he blacks out. And he puzzles coming starlet. But Paddy Richardson is the author of five over why his maternal grandmother has behind their novels, The Company of a Daughter, A Year never liked him, why she says he’s the son flawless façade, not to Learn a Woman, Hunting Blind, Traces of a trickster, that he isn’t human. everything is as it of Red, Cross Fingers and her latest from seems. Haisla/Heiltsuk novelist Eden Robinson Upstart Press, Swimming in the Dark, as is the author of a collection of short stories well as two collections of short stories. She Callie, Tilda’s unassuming twin, has written when she was a Goth, called lives in Dunedin, where she writes and watched her sister visibly shrink under Traplines. Her two previous novels, Monkey teaches courses in creative writing. Felix’s domineering love. She has looked Beach and Blood Sports, were written on silently as Tilda stopped working, nearly before she discovered she was gluten- stopped eating, and turned into a neat freak. intolerant and tend to be quite grim. She knows about Felix’s uncontrollable The Fish Girl rages, and has seen the bruises on the Mirandi Riwoe white skin of her sister’s arms.

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28 www.dublinliteraryaward.ie THE 2019LONGLIST Frances is twenty- Ralf Rothman was born in 1953 in Breathe one years old, Schleswig and grew up in the Ruhr valley. Beni Rusani cool-headed and He has received numerous awards for his observant. A fiction and poetry, including the Friedrich NOMINATED BY: student in Dublin Hölderlin Prize in 2013, the Hans Fallada The National Library of Malaysia, Kuala and an aspiring Prize in 2008, and the Max Frisch Prize in Lumpar writer, at night she 2006. He lives in Berlin. ‘I’m dying.’ His pulse performs spoken weakened. For a word with her best brief moment, his friend Bobbi, who muddled mind used to be her The Ministry of Utmost Happiness became clear and girlfriend. When he could think. ‘Stay they are interviewed and then befriended afloat, breathe. Just by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is NOMINATED BY: keep breathing.’ married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world LINC Tasmania, Hobart, Australia of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties Dr. Adam is a Gradska knjižnice Rijeka, Croatia and holidays in Provence, beginning a cardiologist who Tartu Public Library, Estonia complex ménage-à-quatre. knows how to help Leipziger Städtische Bibliotheken, Germany others. The only thing he can’t fix is himself. Veria Central Public Library, Greece But when Frances and Nick get When a heart attack threatens his life, India International Centre Library, New unexpectedly closer, the sharply witty Adam is given a chance to look at his past Delhi and emotion-averse Frances is forced to to rediscover the friendship and the love Wojewódzka Biblioteka Publiczna im. honestly confront her own vulnerabilities for he lost. In his darkest hours, friends and Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego w Łodzi, the first time. strangers are racing against time to save Poland Sally Rooney was born in 1991 and lives him. Yet, the key to his survival and future New Hampshire State Library, Concord, in Dublin, where she graduated from an might lie in his past. USA MA at Trinity College in 2013. Her work has Houston Public Library, USA All Adam wants is a second chance. And appeared in Granta, The White Review, The time is running out…. Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, Kevin The Ministry of Barry’s Stonecutter and The Winter Utmost Dr. Beni Rusani graduated from Auckland Pages anthology. Conversations with Happiness takes us Medical School. He is a cardiologist at the Friends is her first novel. on a journey of National Heart Institute, Kuala Lumpur. many years - the His short stories were published in the story spooling Diagnosis series, in which Diagnosis and outwards from the Apolalips made the MPH bestseller list in To Die in Spring cramped 2015 and 2016. Ralf Rothman neighbourhoods of Translated from the German by Old Delhi into the Shaun Whiteside burgeoning new metropolis and The Golden House NOMINATED BY: beyond, to the Valley of Kashmir and the Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin, forests of Central India, where war is peace Germany NOMINATED BY: and peace is war, and where, from time to Bibliotheken der Stadt Mainz, Germany The lunacy of the time, ‘normalcy’ is declared. Anjum, who final months of used to be Aftab, unrolls a threadbare On the day of World War II, as carpet in a city graveyard that she calls Barack Obama’s experienced by a home. A baby appears quite suddenly on a inauguration, an young German pavement, a little after midnight, in a crib of enigmatic billionaire soldier. litter. The enigmatic S. Tilottama is as much from foreign shores of a presence as she is an absence in the takes up residence Distant, silent, often lives of the three men who loved her. in New York’s drunk, Walter Urban Greenwich Village. is a difficult man The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is at The residents are to have as a father. once an aching love story and a decisive immediately But his son—the remonstration. It is told in a whisper, in a intrigued by the narrator of this slim, harrowing novel—is shout, through tears and sometimes with a eccentric curious about Walter’s experiences during laugh. Its heroes are people who have been newcomer and his family. Along with his World War II, and so makes him a present broken by the world they live in and then improbable name, untraceable accent, and of a blank notebook in which to write down rescued, mended by love-and by hope. unmistakable whiff of danger, Nero Golden his memories. Walter dies, however, leaving Arundhati Roy is the author of The God has brought along his three adult sons. nothing but the barest skeleton of a story of Small Things, which won the Booker There is no mother, no wife; at least not until on those pages, leading his son to fill in the Prize in 1997 and has been translated into Vasilisa, a sleek Russian ex-pat, snags the gaps himself, rightly or wrongly, with what more than forty languages. Roy has also septuagenarian Nero, becoming the queen he can piece together. Told in a remarkable published several works of non-fiction. She to his king—a queen in want of an heir. impressionistic voice, focusing on the tiny lives in Delhi. details and moments of grotesque beauty Our guide to the Goldens’ world is their that flower even in the most desperate neighbour René, an ambitious young situations. filmmaker. Researching a movie about the

www.dublinliteraryaward.ie 29 Goldens, he ingratiates himself into their They say a railroad Rakesh Satyal is the author of the household. Seduced by their mystique, he is little more than a novel Blue Boy, which won the 2010 is inevitably implicated in their quarrels, small town that Lambda Literary Award for Gay Debut their infidelities, and, indeed, their crimes. stretches a Fiction. He was a recipient of a 2010 Meanwhile, like a bad joke, a certain thousand miles Fellowship in Fiction from the New York comic-book villain embarks upon a crass along a single Foundation for the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn. presidential run that turns New York winding iron thread. upside-down. And as in any small

THE 2019 LONGLIST 2019 THE town, gossip travels Salman Rushdie is the author of twelve up and down the novels and one collection of short stories. rail so fast it might He has also published four works of as well be a nonfiction. He is a member of the American NOMINATED BY: telephone party line. So when a local boy Academy of Arts and Letters and a Municipal Library of Prague, Czech turns up dead sixty miles down track under Distinguished Writer in Residence at New Republic a bridge marked as a safe hobo camp, it York University. Rushdie was knighted in Reykjavík City Library, Iceland quickly becomes Hook Runyon’s job to find 2007 for services to literature. Biblioteca Vila De Gràcia - Biblioteques de out what happened before it hits the Barcelona, Spain headlines of the local newspapers. The rail The Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton yard bull is dealing with the constraints of a County, USA new office job and the presence of a young Idaho New Hampshire State Library, Concord, aspiring criminologist from Back East, a Emily Ruskovich USA mixture ripe for all hell breaking loose. Denver Public Library, USA NOMINATED BY: Sheldon Russell taught at the University Iowa City Public Library, USA Openbare Bibliotheek Brugge, Belgium of Louisville and the University of Central Kansas City Public Library, USA One hot August Oklahoma. He is the award-winning author Multnomah County Library, USA day a family drives of nine novels, including The Yard Dog The American Civil to a mountain and The Insane Train from his beloved War rages while clearing to collect Hook Runyon Mystery Series. He lives in President Lincoln’s birch wood. Jenny Oklahoma. beloved eleven- the mother, is in year-old son lies charge of lopping gravely ill. In a any small limbs off matter of days, the logs with a No One Can Pronounce My Willie dies and is hatchet. Wade the Name laid to rest in a father, does the Rakesh Satyal Georgetown stacking. The two NOMINATED BY: cemetery. daughters June and May, aged nine and Hartford Public Library, USA Newspapers report six, drink lemonade, swat away horseflies, that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns to the bicker, sing snatches of songs as they In a suburb outside crypt several times alone to hold his boy’s while away the time. But then something Cleveland, a body. unimaginably shocking happens, an act so community of From this seed of historical truth, George extreme it will scatter the family in every Indian Americans Saunders spins an unforgettable story of different direction. has settled into familial love and loss that breaks free of lives that straddle Emily Ruskovich grew up in the Idaho realism, entering a thrilling, supernatural the divide between Panhandle, on Hoodoo mountain. Her domain both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Eastern and fiction has appeared in Zoetrope, One Lincoln finds himself trapped in a Western cultures. Story and the Virginia Quarterly Review. A transitional realm - called, in Tibetan Harit, a lonely winner of a 2015 O. Henry Award and a tradition, the bardo - and as ghosts mingle, Indian immigrant in graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, squabble, gripe and commiserate, and his mid forties, lives she now teaches creative writing at the stony tendrils creep towards the boy, a with his mother who can no longer function University of Colorado, Denver. Idaho is her monumental struggle erupts over young after the death of Harit’s sister, Swati. first novel. Willie’s soul. Meanwhile, Ranjana, also an Indian immigrant in her mid forties, has just seen George Saunders is the author of nine her only child, Prashant, off to college. books, including Lincoln in the Bardo, The Bridge Troll Murders When Harit and Ranjana’s paths cross, they winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize Sheldon Russell begin a strange yet necessary friendship and the Premio Rezzori prize. Tenth of that brings to light their own passions and December was a finalist for the National NOMINATED BY: fears. Book Award and won the inaugural Folio Oklahoma Department of Libraries, USA Prize. He teaches in the creative writing Rakesh Satyal’s No One Can Pronounce program at Syracuse University. My Name is a distinctive, funny, and insightful look into the lives of people who must reconcile the strictures of their culture and traditions with their own dreams and desires.

30 www.dublinliteraryaward.ie THE 2019LONGLIST Adua with her threatens to overwhelm his whole Fever Dream Igiaba Scego life, as well as hers, but he is determined to Samantha Schweblin Translated from the Italian by make the most of this second chance he Translated from the Spanish by Jamie Richards has been given. He is determined not to let Megan McDowell it happen again. NOMINATED BY: NOMINATED BY: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma, Italy Tench is criminal psychologist Inge Chicago Public Library, USA Schilperoord’s daring first novel: unnerving, Adua, an immigrant morally complicated and utterly gripping, it A young woman from Somalia to moves brilliantly through true darkness. named Amanda lies Italy, has lived in dying in a rural Rome for nearly Inge Schilperoord is a Dutch criminal hospital clinic. A forty years. She psychologist. She also works as an boy named David came seeking editor and reviewer for a number of sits beside her. freedom from a newspapers and magazines. Tench, her She’s not his strict father and an first novel, won the Bronze Owl Prize for mother. He’s not her oppressive regime, best debut, was shortlisted for four other child. Together, they but her dreams of major prizes in the Netherlands and tell a haunting story becoming a film Belgium, and was a five-time book of the of broken souls, star ended in year in the Dutch press. toxins, and the shame. Now that the civil war in Somalia is power and desperation of family. over, her homeland beckons. Yet Adua has Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a a husband who needs her, a young man, See what I Have Done ghost story for the real world, a love story also an immigrant, who braved a dangerous and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest crossing of the Mediterranean Sea. 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She was born in Rome in 1974 of three story collections that have won summer morning to Somali parents who took refuge in numerous awards, and been translated in 1892, Lizzie Italy following a coup d’état in their native into 20 languages. Fever Dream is her first Borden – thirty two country, where her father served as foreign novel. Originally from Buenos Aires, she years old and still minister. lives in Berlin. living at home – immediately becomes a Tench suspect. But after a Taboo Inge Schilperoord notorious trial, she is found innocent, and Translated from the Dutch by David Colmer no one is ever convicted of the crime. Meanwhile, others in the claustrophobic NOMINATED BY: NOMINATED BY: Borden household have their own motives State Library of Western Australia, Perth De Bibliotheek Eindhoven, The Netherlands and their own stories to tell: Lizzie’s State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, The Libraries of The Hague, The unmarried older sister, a put-upon Irish Australia Netherlands housemaid, and a boy hired by Lizzie’s National Library of Australia, Canberra De Bibliotheek Utrecht, The Netherlands uncle to take care of a problem. State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Sølvberget, Stavanger bibliotek og Australia kulturhus, Norway This unforgettable debut makes you question the truth behind one of the Taboo takes place Jonathan has great unsolved mysteries, as well as in the present day, returned from exploring power, violence and the in the rural prison to his almost harsh realities of being a woman in late South-West of deserted, run-down nineteenth century America. Western Australia, neighbourhood. He and tells the story of has returned to his Sarah Schmidt is a librarian from a group of Noongar mother, to his dog, Melbourne. She became obsessed with people who revisit, and caring for the the Borden story after coming across for the first time in fish he keeps in an Lizzie’s case by chance in a second-hand many decades, a aquarium in his bookstore and her passionate research has taboo place: the site bedroom. But there even taken her to stay for several nights in of a massacre that is a young girl with the Borden house. followed the assassination, by these a chipped front tooth living next door, and Noongars’ ancestors, of a white man who feelings he thought forgotten are coming had stolen a black woman. They come at back to Jonathan. His growing obsession the invitation of Dan Horton, the elderly

www.dublinliteraryaward.ie 31 owner of the farm on which the massacres the story of her Chinese American family’s Klausner, Hiddensee’s most popular unfolded. He hopes that by hosting the settlement in Los Angeles. She was restaurant, and ends up washing dishes group he will satisfy his wife’s dying wishes named National Woman of the Year by the there. Although he is keen to remain on the and cleanse some moral stain from the Organization of Chinese American Women. sidelines, Ed feels drawn towards the ground on which he and his family have charismatic Kruso, unofficial leader of the lived for generations. But the sins of the seasonal workers. Ed finds himself drawn past will not be so easily expunged. This is ever deeper into the island’s rituals, and a novel of survival and renewal, as much as A Boy in Winter ever more in need of Kruso’s acceptance Rachel Seiffert

THE 2019 LONGLIST 2019 THE destruction; and, ultimately, of hope as and affection. much as despair. NOMINATED BY: As the wave of history washes over the Kim Scott is a multi-award winning Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek, Norway German Democratic Republic, the friends’ novelist. Benang was the first novel by an grip on reality loosens and life on the island Early on a grey Indigenous writer to win the Miles Franklin will never be the same. November Award and That Deadman Dance also won morning in 1941, Lutz Seiler was born in Thuringia, and Australia’s premier literary prize, among only weeks after today lives in Berlin and Stockholm. Since many others. Kim is founder and chair of the German 1997, he has been the literary director and the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Story invasion, a small custodian of the Peter Huchel Museum. Project which has published a number of Ukrainian town is His many prizes include the Ingeborg bilingual picture books. overrun by the Bachmann Prize, the Bremen Prize for SS. A Boy In Literature, and the German Book Prize 2014. Winter tells of the The Tea Girl of Hummingbird three days that Lane follow and the lives Home Fire Lisa See that are overturned in the process. And in the midst of it all is the determined boy, Kamila Shamsie NOMINATED BY: Yankel, who will throw his and his young NOMINATED BY: Pikes Peak Library District, Colorado brother’s chances of surviving to strangers. Richland Library, Columbia, USA Springs, USA A Boy In Winter is a story of hope when all Free Library of Philadelphia, USA In their remote is lost, and of mercy when the times have Richmond Public Library, USA mountain village, none. Isma is free. After Li-yan and her Rachel Seiffert’s first novel, The Dark years spent raising family align their Room, was shortlisted for the Man her twin siblings in lives around the Booker Prize and was made into the the wake of their seasons and the feature film Lore. She was named as one mother’s death, she farming of tea. For of Granta’s twenty Best of Young British is finally studying in the Akha people, Novelists in 2003. Her books have been America, resuming ensconced in ritual published in eighteen languages. She lives a dream long and routine, life in London with her family. deferred. But she goes on as it has for can’t stop worrying generations—until about Aneeka, her a stranger appears at the village gate in a beautiful, jeep, the first automobile any of the Kruso headstrong sister back in London or their villagers has ever seen. Lutz Seiler brother, Parvaiz, who’s disappeared in The stranger’s arrival marks the first Translated from the German by Tess Lewis pursuit of his own dream- to prove himself entrance of the modern world in the lives of to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he NOMINATED BY: the Akha people. Slowly, Li-yan, one of the never knew. Stadtbibliothek Bremen, Germany few educated girls on her mountain, begins Stadtbüchereien Düsseldorf, Germany Then Eamonn enters the sisters’ lives. to reject the customs that shaped her early Stadtbücherei Heidelberg, Germany Handsome and privileged, he inhabits a life. When she has a baby out of wedlock— Leipziger Städtische Bibliotheken, Germany London worlds away from theirs. As the conceived with a man her parents consider Bibliotheken der Stadt Mainz, Germany son of a powerful British Muslim politician, a poor choice—she rejects the tradition Eamonn has his own birthright to live up to that would compel her to give the child It is 1989, and a or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The over to be killed, and instead leaves her, young literature means of Parvaiz ‘s salvation? Home Fire is wrapped in a blanket with a tea cake tucked student named Ed, an urgent, fiercely compelling story of in its folds, near an orphanage in a nearby fleeing unspeakable loyalties torn apart when love and politics city. tragedy, travels to collide confirming Kamila Shamsie as a the Baltic island of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane paints master storyteller of our times. Hiddensee. Long an unforgettable portrait of a little known shrouded in myth, Kamila Shamsie is the author of six novels. region and its people and celebrates the the island is a She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of bond of family. notorious Literature and was named a Granta Best of Lisa See is the New York Times bestselling destination for Young British Novelist in 2013. She grew up author of 8 novels including Dreams of hippies, idealists, in Karachi and now lives in London. Joy, which debuted at #1. She is also the and those at odds with the East German author of On Gold Mountain, which tells state. On the island, Ed stumbles upon the

32 www.dublinliteraryaward.ie THE 2019LONGLIST The Women in the Castle and his companion, Olivia Watson. My Cat Yugoslavia Jessica Shattuck A beautiful former British fashion model, Pajtim Statovci Translated from the Finnish by NOMINATED BY: Olivia pretends not to know the true source David Hackston Benue State Library Board, Makurdi, Nigeria of Martel’s enormous wealth. And Martel, likewise, turns a blind eye to the fact he NOMINATED BY: Three women, is doing business with a man whose Espoo City Library, Finland haunted by the past objective is the very destruction of the West. and the secrets they Together, under Gabriel’s skilled hand, they In 1980s Yugoslavia, hold. will become an unlikely pair of heroes in a young Muslim girl is married off to a Amid the ashes of the global war on terrorism. man she hardly Nazi Germany’s Daniel Silva is the award-winning, #1 New knows, but what defeat, Marianne York Times bestselling author of 18 novels. was meant to be a von Lingenfels His books are published in more than thirty happy match goes returns to the countries and are bestsellers around the quickly wrong. Soon once-grand castle world. He serves on the United States thereafter her of her husband’s Holocaust Memorial Council and lives in country is torn apart ancestors. The widow of a resister Florida with his wife, and their two children. by war and she and murdered in the failed July 20, 1944, plot her family flee. to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Marianne plans to uphold the promise she made Years later, her son, Bekim, grows up a to her husband’s brave conspirators: to To the Back of Beyond social outcast in present-day Finland, not find and protect their wives, her fellow Peter Stamm just an immigrant in a country suspicious resistance widows. Translated from the German by of foreigners, but a gay man in an unaccepting society. His only friend is a As Marianne assembles this makeshift boa constrictor whom, improbably–he family, she is certain their shared pain and NOMINATED BY: is terrified of snakes–he lets roam his circumstances will hold them together. Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin, apartment. Then, during a visit to a gay But she quickly discovers that the black- Germany bar, Bekim meets a talking cat who moves and-white, highly principled world of her Stadtbücherei Heidelberg, Germany in with him and his snake. It is this witty, privileged past has become infinitely more Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Switzerland charming, manipulative creature who complicated. Eventually, all three women Happily married starts Bekim on a journey back to Kosovo must come to terms with the choices that with two children to confront his demons and finally, to open have defined their lives before, during, and and a comfortable himself to true love. after the war—each with their own unique home in a Swiss share of challenges. Pajtim Statovci was born in 1990 and town, Thomas and moved from Kosovo to Finland with his Jessica Shattuck is the New York Astrid enjoy a glass family when he was two years old. He Times bestselling author of The Women of wine in their currently lives in Helsinki, where he is in the Castle, The Hazards of Good garden on a night studying comparative literature at the Breeding, a New York Times Notable Book like any other. University of Helsinki. My Cat Yugoslavia is and finalist for the PEN/Winship Award, Called back to the his first novel. and Perfect Life. house by their son’s cries, Astrid goes inside, expecting her husband to join her in a bit. But Thomas gets up and, after a brief The Necessary Angel House of Spies moment of hesitation, opens the gate and C.K. Stead Daniel Silva walks out. No longer bound by the ties of NOMINATED BY: NOMINATED BY: his everyday life—family, friends, work— Auckland Libraries, New Zealand Biblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto, Thomas begins a winding trek across the Wellington City Libraries, New Zealand Portugal countryside, exposed as never before to the Alpine winter. At home, Astrid wonders Award-winning Four months after where he’s gone, when he’ll come back, author C.K. Stead the deadliest attack whether he’s still alive. takes us to the on the American heart of homeland since Unfailingly perceptive and precise, Peter contemporary Paris 9/11, a terrorist plot Stamm gives form to doubts that disturb us and into a world of leaves a trail of all. To the Back of Beyond eloquently traces books and witty carnage through the effects of loss and the limits of freedom. conversation. The London’s glittering Peter Stamm’s prize-winning books Necessary Angel is West End. The have been translated into more than a story of people attack is a brilliant thirty languages. For his entire body of grappling with love feat of planning and work and his accomplishments in fiction, and fidelity; a story secrecy, but with he was short-listed for the Man Booker about the importance of books; a one loose thread. The thread leads Gabriel International Prize in 2013, and in 2014 he commentary on living in complex modern- Allon and his team to the south of France won the prestigious Friedrich Hölderlin day Europe; and a page-turning mystery. and to the gilded doorstep of one of the Prize. He lives in Switzerland. With a surprising twist at the end, this is a richest men in the country, Jean-Luc Martel, sophisticated novel that shows Stead

www.dublinliteraryaward.ie 33 writing at the height of his powers. Anything is Possible penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father. Karl Stead is a distinguished, award- Elizabeth Strout winning novelist, literary critic, poet, NOMINATED BY: Then Turtle meets Jacob, a high-school boy essayist and emeritus professor of English Openbare Bibliotheek Gent, Belgium who tells jokes, lives in a big clean house, at the University of Auckland. He was the and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. New Zealand Poet Laureate from 2015- Here are two And for the first time, the larger world 2017, has won the Prime Minister’s Award sisters: One trades begins to come into focus: for Fiction, and is a Member of the Order of self-respect for a

THE 2019 LONGLIST 2019 THE Gabriel Tallent was born in New Mexico New Zealand, the highest honour possible wealthy husband and raised on the Mendocino coast by in New Zealand. while the other finds in the pages two mothers. He received his B.A. from of a book a kindred Willamette University in 2010, and after spirit who changes graduation spent two seasons leading The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. her life. The janitor youth trail crews in the backcountry of Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland at the local school the Pacific Northwest. Tallent lives in Salt has his faith tested Lake City. NOMINATED BY: in an encounter Universitätsbibliothek Bern, Switzerland with an isolated man he has come to help; When Melisande a grown daughter longs for mother love Monte Carlo even as she comes to accept her mother’s Stokes, an expert in Peter Terrin linguistics and happiness in a foreign country; and the Translated from the Dutch by David Doherty languages, adult Lucy Barton (the heroine of My Name accidentally meets Is Lucy Barton), returns to visit her siblings NOMINATED BY: military intelligence after seventeen years of absence. Openbare Bibliotheek Brugge, Belgium operator Tristan The Libraries of The Hague, The Reverberating with the deep bonds of Lyons in a hallway Netherlands family, and the hope that comes with at Harvard De Bibliotheek Utrecht, The Netherlands reconciliation, Anything Is Possible again University, it is the De Bibliotheek Eindhoven, The Netherlands underscores Elizabeth Strout’s place as beginning of a one of America’s most respected and It is the Monaco chain of events that cherished authors. Grand Prix in May will alter their lives and human history itself. 1968. Jack Preston, Tristan needs Mel to translate some very Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer Prize– a mechanic for old documents, which, if authentic, are winning author of Olive Kitteridge; the Team Sutton, is earth-shattering. They prove that magic #1 New York Times bestseller, My Name Is making the final actually existed and was practiced for Lucy Barton; The Burgess Boys, Abide with checks on his car. centuries. But the arrival of the scientific Me and Amy and Isabelle. She lives in New DeeDee, a starlet of revolution and the Age of Enlightenment York City. great beauty, seems weakened its power and endangered its to be walking practitioners. Magic stopped working towards him, or altogether in 1851, at the time of the Great perhaps towards Exhibition at London’s Crystal Palace—the My Absolute Darling the royal box. Without warning a fireball rips world’s fair celebrating the rise of industrial Gabriel Tallent across the starting grid. Preston will always technology and commerce. NOMINATED BY: bear the scars as a consequence of his And so the Department of Diachronic Bibliothèque Municipale de Reims, France unthinking heroism, his saving the life and Operations—D.O.D.O.—gets cracking Bibliothèques Municipales Genève, the beauty of the girl. on its real mission: to develop a device Switzerland Weeks later, Preston emerges from hospital that can bring magic back, and send Turtle Alveston is a and goes home to his wife in a remote Diachronic Operatives back in time to keep survivor. At fourteen, English village. There, as he slowly recovers, it alive . . . and meddle with a little history at she roams the he awaits word from his employers and the same time. woods along the some sign of DeeDee’s gratitude. Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author northern California Monte Carlo is an unsettlingly beautiful of ten novels and the groundbreaking coast. The creeks, story of obsession by an acknowledged nonfiction work In the Beginning . . . Was tide pools, and master of classical restraint. the Command Line. He lives in Seattle, rocky islands are Washington. her haunts and her Peter Terrin represents a unique voice in hiding grounds, and contemporary literature. He is considered Nicole Galland’s five previous novels she is known to by critics to be a literary maverick, a are The Fool’s Tale; Revenge of the wander for miles. classic writer and a masterful stylist. He Rose; Crossed; I, Iago, and Godiva. She is But while her physical world is expansive, won a European Literature Prize for The married to actor Billy Meleady and owns her personal one is small and treacherous: Guard, and the AKO Literatuurprijs Leuco, a dog of splendid qualities. Turtle has grown up isolated since the for Post Mortem. death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone, student or teacher, who might

34 www.dublinliteraryaward.ie THE 2019LONGLIST The Hate U Give Temporary People activists, Joe is forced to face the past and Angie Thomas Deepak Unnikrishnan reconnect with the son he abandoned twenty years earlier. NOMINATED BY: NOMINATED BY: Tallinn Central Library, Estonia India International Centre Library, New As he struggles to deal with the sudden Iowa City Public Library, USA Delhi collision of his two lives - and to save Denver Public Library, USA his eldest daughter from the clutches of In the United Arab an unscrupulous tech company - Joe has Starr Carter’s world Emirates, foreign to reconsider his priorities and take drastic is shattered when nationals constitute action to save those he loves. she is the only over 80 percent of witness to the fatal the population. Jussi Valtonen is an author shooting of her Brought in to and psychologist from Helsinki. He studied unarmed best construct and serve neuropsychology in the United States friend, Khalil, by a the towering and screenwriting in the UK. His previous police officer. Now monuments to works include two novels and a short story what Starr says wealth that collection. He currently lives in New York. could destroy her punctuate the community. It could skylines of Abu also get her killed. Dhabi and Dubai, this labour force is not Borne Inspired by the Black Lives Matter given the option of citizenship. Until now, movement, the multi-award-winning The the humanitarian crisis of the so-called Jeff VanderMeer Hate U Give is a powerful and gripping “guest workers” of the Gulf has barely been NOMINATED BY: novel about one girl’s struggle for justice. addressed in fiction. Pikes Peak Library District, Colorado Angie Thomas was born, raised and still Springs, USA Unnikrishnan presents twenty-eight linked resides in Mississippi. She holds a BFA in stories that careen from construction A young woman Creative Writing from Belhaven University. workers who shapeshift into luggage and named Rachel She is an inaugural winner of the Walter escape a labour camp, to a woman who survives as a Dean Myers Grant 2015, awarded by We stitches back together the bodies of those scavenger in a Need Diverse Books. The Hate U Give was who’ve fallen from buildings in progress, to ruined city half made into a film in 2018. a man who grows ideal workers designed destroyed by to live twelve years and then perish—until drought and conflict. they don’t, and found a rebel community The city is Naondel: The Red Abbey in the desert. With this stunning, mind- dangerous, littered Chronicles altering debut novel Deepak Unnikrishnan with discarded Maria Turtschaninoff delves into their histories, myths, struggles, experiments from Translated from the Swedish by A.A. Prime and triumphs. the Company—a biotech firm now derelict—and punished NOMINATED BY: Deepak Unnikrishnan is a writer from Abu by the unpredictable predations of a giant Espoo City Library, Finland Dhabi and a resident of the States. He has bear. Rachel ekes out an existence in the In the opulent studied and taught at the Art Institute of shelter of a run-down sanctuary she shares palace of Ohaddin, Chicago and presently teaches at New York with her partner, Wick, who deals his own women have one University Abu Dhabi. Temporary People, homegrown psychoactive biotech. purpose – to obey. his first book, was the inaugural winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant One day, Rachel finds Borne during a All of them must do Writing. scavenging mission and takes him home. what the Master Borne as salvage is little more than a green tells them, for he lump—plant or animal?—but exudes a wields a deadly strange charisma. and secret power. They Know Not What They Do But the women Jussi Valtonen But as Borne grows, he begins to threaten have powers too. Translated from the Finnish by the balance of power in the city and to put One is a healer. One can control dreams. Kristian London the security of her sanctuary with Wick One is a warrior. One can see everything at risk. For the Company, it seems, may that is coming. In their golden prison, the NOMINATED BY: not be truly dead, and new enemies are women wait. They plan. They write down Espoo City Library, Finland creeping in. their stories. They dream of a refuge, a safe Joe Chayefski has Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning place where girls can be free. And, finally, got what he always novelist and editor, and the author of the when the moon glows red, they will have wanted: a bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy. His their revenge. Naondel is the second book reputation as one of fiction has been translated into twenty in Maria Turtschaninoff’s feminist fantasy America’s top languages. He grew up in the Fiji Islands series The Red Abbey Chronicles. neuroscientists, a and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with Maria Turtschaninoff is a Swedish- beautiful wife and his wife. speaking Finn who has been writing fairy two perfect tales from the age of five. After a detour as daughters. a journalist for a few years, Turtschaninoff But when his lab debuted in 2007 with a middle-grade portal is attacked by fantasy and has since published five more animal rights novels, all YA fantasy. www.dublinliteraryaward.ie 35 And Fire Came Down – and torment them for thousands of years. and sons, about legacies, about violence, Emma Viskic When a group of damaged individuals seek about love. safety from this nuclear winter in Solovyei’s Jesmyn Ward is the winner of two National NOMINATED BY: commune, a plot develops to overthrow Book Awards for Fiction for Sing, Unburied, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, him, end his reign of mental abuse, and Sing and Salvage the Bones. She is Australia restore humanity. currently an associate professor of creative Deaf since early Fantastical, unsettling, and occasionally writing at Tulane University and lives in childhood, Caleb funny, Radiant Terminus is a key entry in Mississippi. THE 2019 LONGLIST 2019 THE Zelic used to meet Volodines’ epic literary project with its life head-on. Now broad landscape, ambitious vision, and he’s struggling just interlocking characters and ideas. to get through the Clear to the Horizon day. His best mate Antoine Volodine is the primary Dave Warner is dead, his ex-wife, pseudonym of a French writer who has NOMINATED BY: Kat, is avoiding him, published twenty books under this name. State Library of Western Australia, Perth. and nightmares He also publishes under the names Lutz Bassmann. In 2014, Radiant Terminus was haunt his waking In 1999 and 2000, awarded the Prix Médicis. hours. three young women disappear from But when a young woman is killed after outside the pleading for his help in sign language, Autostrada Caleb is determined to find out who she Sing, Unburied, Sing nightclub in the was. And the trail leads straight to his Jesmyn Ward Perth suburb of hometown, Resurrection Bay. The town is NOMINATED BY: Claremont. The on bushfire alert and simmering with racial Winnipeg Public Library, Canada knockabout Snowy tensions. Jamaica Library Service, Kingston Lane (City of Light) As he delves deeper, Caleb uncovers Denver Public Library, USA is hired as a private secrets that could threaten his life and any Kansas City Public Library, USA investigator but chance of reuniting with Kat. Driven by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, USA neither he nor the cops can find the his demons, he pushes on. But who is he Multnomah County Library, Portland, USA abductor. willing to sacrifice along the way? The Seattle Public Library, USA Seventeen years on, the daughter of a Ferguson Library, Stamford, USA Emma Viskic is an award-winning wealthy mining magnate goes missing in Australian crime writer. Her critically Jojo is thirteen years the north-west, and Snowy is hired to find acclaimed debut novel, Resurrection Bay, old and trying to her. In the tropical town of Broome, a spate won the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for Best understand what it of local thefts puts Snowy and Detective First Fiction, as well as an unprecedented means to be a man. Inspector Dan Clement (Before It Breaks) three Davitt Awards. She has also won the He doesn’t lack in back on the trail of the cold-case killer. Ned Kelly and Thunderbolt Awards for her fathers to study, Snowy is determined that this time he will short form fiction. chief among them get his man, even if it costs him his life. his Black Dave Warner is an author, musician grandfather, Pop. and screenwriter. His first novel City of But there are other Light won the Western Australian Premier’s Radiant Terminus men who Book Award for Fiction, and Before it Antoine Volodine complicate his Breaks (2015) the Ned Kelly Award for Translated from the French by understanding: his absent White father, best Australian crime fiction. His latest Jeffrey Zuckerman Michael, who is being released from prison; novel Clear to the Horizon features the lead his absent White grandfather, Big Joseph, NOMINATED BY: characters from both these books. Bibliothèque publique d’information, Paris, who won’t acknowledge his existence; and France the memories of his dead uncle, Given, who died as a teenager. Radiant Girlcott Terminus takes His mother, Leonie, is an inconsistent place in a presence in his and his toddler sister’s Florenz Webb Maxwell lives. She wants to be a better mother but Tarkovskian NOMINATED BY: can’t put her children above her own needs, landscape after the Jamaica Library Service, Kingston fall of the Second especially her drug use. A week ago, Desma Soviet Union. Most When the children’s father is released from Johnson had only of humanity has prison, Leonie packs her kids and a friend two things on her been destroyed into her car and drives north to the heart of mind – in exactly thanks to a number Mississippi and Parchman Farm, the State eight days, she of nuclear Penitentiary. At Parchman, there is another would be sixteen meltdowns, but a few communes remain, thirteen-year-old boy, the ghost of a dead years old and to top including one run by Solovyei, a psychotic inmate who carries all of the ugly history of it off she was in line father with the ability to invade people’s the South with him in his wandering. He too for a top dreams – including those of his daughters has something to teach Jojo about fathers

36 www.dublinliteraryaward.ie THE 2019LONGLIST scholarship, bringing her one step closer to the intertwining cycles of death, rebirth It begins with a her dreams. Life was perfect and nothing and coincidence, The Consequences is a painting won in a would get in the way of her birthday plans. Bildungsroman that echoes far beyond the raffle: fifteen But it’s 1959 and the secret Progressive last page. sunflowers, hung League has just announced a boycott of all on the wall by a Niña Weijers studied literary theory in cinemas in Bermuda in order to end racial woman who Amsterdam and Dublin. She has published segregation. believes that men short stories, essays and articles in various and boys are As anxieties around the boycott build literary magazines. Her debut novel The capable of beautiful Desma becomes increasingly aware of the Consequences won the Anton Wachter things. racial tensions casting a dire shadow over Prize 2014 for best first novel, the Opzij the island. Neighbours she once thought Feminist Literature Prize, and the Lucy B. & And then there are were friendly and supportive show another C.W. van der Hoogt Prize. two boys, Ellis and Michael, side. So, Desma must learn that change is Who couldn’t be closer. never easy, and even when others expect And the boys become men, small things from black girls, she has the And then they meet Annie, right to dream big. When the English Fall And it changes nothing and everything David Williams Florenz Webb Maxwell was born Sarah Winman grew up in Essex and now in Bermuda. In 1972, she won first NOMINATED BY: lives in London. She attended the Webber place for the Council on Interracial LeRoy Collins Leon County Public Library Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and Books for Children Award for her System, Tallahassee, USA went on to act in theatre, film and television. manuscript, The Rock Cried Out. Her She has written two novels, When God Was When a manuscript Girlcott won second place A Rabbit and A Year of Marvellous Ways. catastrophic solar in the 2016 Burt Award for Caribbean storm brings about Literature. As a retired librarian, Ms. the collapse of Maxwell is still in demand as a storyteller, modern civilisation, especially for Bermuda folk tales. Lost in September an Amish Kathleen Winter community is caught up in the NOMINATED BY: The Consequences devastating Cape Breton Regional Library, Sydney, Nina Weijers aftermath. With Canada their stocked Translated from the Dutch by While still a soldier larders and stores Hester Velmans in his twenties, the of supplies, the Amish are unaffected at impressionable NOMINATED BY: first. But as the English (the Amish name for young man who Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, The all non-Amish people) in the cities become would become Netherlands increasingly desperate, they begin to General James De Bibliotheek Eindhoven, The Netherlands invade nearby farms, taking whatever they Wolfe was granted The Libraries of The Hague, The want and unleashing unthinkable violence a short and much Netherlands on the gentle communities. longed-for leave to De Bibliotheek Utrecht, The Netherlands Written as the diary of an Amish farmer travel to Paris to Using deft and named Jacob who tries to protect his study poetry, music captivating prose, family and his way of life, When the English and dance – three Weijers tells the Fall examines the idea of peace in the of his passions. Alas, Wolfe had the bad story of Minnie face of deadly chaos. Should members of luck to ask for his leave in the very year Panis, a young and a nonviolent society defy their beliefs and (1752) that Britain abandoned the Julian talented conceptual take up arms to defend themselves? And if calendar for the Gregorian in order to align artist, as she they do, can they survive? itself with the rest of Europe. As a navigates love consequence of that change, every British David Williams, a pastor in the affairs, her citizen lost eleven days that September – Presbyterian Church, lives in Northern unexpected days that coincided with Wolfe’s planned Virginia with his wife and sons. His success in the art break. stories and articles have appeared in world, and her publications as diverse as Omni, Christian In this brilliant novel, James – or Jimmy relationship with an emotionally distant Century, and Wired. He is the author of one as he is known – finally gets his eleven mother. Beginning with Minnie’s near- previous book, The Believer’s Guide to the days back…. But instead of attending the death experience falling through the ice Multiverse. sparkling salons of Paris he wanders during her ultimate artwork, Weijers takes incognito and almost penniless through readers on a rollercoaster ride as Minnie present-day Montreal, wracked with despair uncovers the truth behind her premature over what has become of the land he once birth. Tin Man fought for, bemused and befuddled by city The doctor who saves her life, twice, enters Sarah Winman life, and occasionally finding moments of Minnie into his clinic, whose motto All the unexpected solace among the unusual NOMINATED BY: fish needs is to get lost in the water helps people he encounters. Redbridge Libraries, London, UK her arrive at the border of life’s ebb, where Limerick City & County Library, Ireland Kathleen Winter’s novel Annabel was meaningful art and revelations occur. An shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, intimate, often humorous exploration of

www.dublinliteraryaward.ie 37 the Governor General’s Literary Award, At school, adults are nearly invisible, and received her doctorate in Literature from the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the the society the children create on their own the University of Oregon. She lives in Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Orange is marked by soul-crushing hierarchies Oregon with her husband Andy Mingo and Prize, and numerous other awards Born in and an underlying menace. Then, one their renaissance man son, Miles the UK, Winter lives in Montreal, Quebec. day after hours, the Child sneaks into the classroom to add ominous sentences to her classmates’ notebooks, setting in motion a series of cataclysmic events. The Image Interpreter The Resurrection of Joan Ashby Zoran Zivkovic THE 2019 LONGLIST 2019 THE Han Yujoo was born in Seoul in 1982, Cherise Wolas Translated from the Serbian by studied German literature at Hongik Randall A. Major NOMINATED BY: University, obtained a master’s degree Winnipeg Public Library, Canada in aesthetics from the prestigious Seoul NOMINATED BY: National University, and is currently Belgrade City Library, Serbia When Joan finds working toward another master’s degree in Narodna I univerzitetska biblioteka herself comparative literature from Seoul National Republike Srpske, Banja Luka, Bosnia & unexpectedly University. She is also a noted translator. Herzegovina pregnant, she is In addition, she runs her own micro-press, stunned by Martin’s In a carriage of the Oulipo Press, focusing on experimental delight, his instant Paris metro, nine fiction. betrayal of their people cross paths pact. She makes a one ordinary Friday fateful, selfless morning: a retired decision then, to The Book of Joan office worker who embrace her Lidia Yuknavitch comes there purely unintentional family. to read; a tourist NOMINATED BY: revisiting the Challenged by raising two precocious sons, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, USA memories of sixty it is decades before she finally completes Multnomah County Library, Portland, USA years ago; a funeral her masterpiece novel. Poised to reclaim mourner who has the spotlight, to resume the intended In the near future, discovered the beauty of cemeteries; an life she gave up for love, a betrayal of world wars have author in search of her characters; a young Shakespearean proportion forces her to transformed the man with a reality problem; an elderly question every choice she has made. earth into a woman with memory issues; a military battleground. Epic, propulsive, incredibly ambitious, and administrator with a secret hobby; a jilted Fleeing the dazzlingly written, The Resurrection of woman who has the key to the perfect unending violence Joan Ashby is a story about sacrifice and match; and a secret agent high on and the planet’s motherhood, the burdens of expectation adrenaline. Each in turn encounters that now-radioactive and genius. Cherise Wolas’ gorgeous debut ubiquitous and unavoidable gadget: the cell surface, humans introduces an indelible heroine candid phone camera. Each comes to a realization have regrouped to a about her struggles and unapologetic in that changes their life forever. But who is mysterious platform her ambition. the tenth person in the carriage, and what known as CIEL, hovering over their do her photographs tell her about the other Cherise Wolas lives in New York City erstwhile home. The changed world has nine that they could not possibly know with her husband. She is the author of turned evolution on its head: the surviving themselves? two novels, The Resurrection of Joan humans have become sexless, hairless, Ashby and The Family Tabor. pale-white creatures floating in isolation, Zoran Živković was born in Belgrade, inscribing stories upon their skin. Serbia. Until his recent retirement, he was a full professor at the Faculty of Philology, Out of the ranks of the endless wars the University of Belgrade, teaching rises Jean de Men, a charismatic and The Impossible Fairytale creative writing. Živković is one of the most bloodthirsty cult leader who turns CIEL Han Yujoo translated contemporary Serbian writers. into a quasi-corporate police state. A Translated from the Korean by Janet Hong By the end of 2017 there were 93 foreign group of rebels unite to dismantle his editions of his books of fiction, published in NOMINATED BY: iron rule—galvanized by the heroic song 23 countries, in 20 languages. He has won Literature Translation Institute of Korea of Joan, a child-warrior who possesses a several literary awards for his fiction. Library, Seoul, South Korea mysterious force that lives within her and communes with the earth. When de Men The Impossible and his armies turn Joan into a martyr, the Fairytale tells the consequences are astonishing. And no story of the one—not the rebels, Jean de Men, or even nameless ‘Child’, Joan herself—can foresee the way her story who struggles to and unique gift will forge the destiny of an make a mark on the entire world for generations. world, and her classmate Mia, Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the whose spoiled life National Bestselling novel The Small Backs is everything the of Children, the novel Dora: A Headcase, Child’s is not. and three books of short stories. She

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