The nominees the 2026 Dublin Literary Award have just been announced. Sixty-nine books have been nominated by 80 libraries from 36 countries. The nominees are:
- 1985: A Novel - Dominic Hoey
- A Thousand Times Before - Asha Thanki
- Back in the Day - Oliver Loverenski
- Blurred - Iris Wolff
- Brightly Shining - Ingvild Rishoi
- Camarade - Theo Dorgan
- Casualties of Truth - Lauren Francis-Sharma
- Coloured Television - Danzy Senna
- Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner
- Darkenbloom - Eva Menasse
- Dear Dickhead - Virginie Despentes
- Delirious - Damien Wilkins
- Diablo's Boys - Yang Hao
- Dream Count - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Dust in the Gale - Joao Morgado
- Endling - Maria Reva
- First Name Second Name - Steve MinOn
- Gliff - Ali Smith
- Good Girl - Aria Aber
- Great Eastern Hotel - Ruchir Joshi
- Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert - Bob the Drag Queen
- Highway 13 - Fiona McFarlane
- I Will Live - Lale Gul
- In Late Summer - Magdalena Blazevic
- Intermezzo - Sally Rooney
- Katarina - Becky Manawatu
- Leading Ledang - Fadlishah Johanabas
- Live Fast - Brigitte Giraud
- Long Island Compromise - Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Luminous - Silvia Park
- Model Home - Rivers Solomon
- Murder at the Castle: A Miss Merkel Mystery - David Safier
- My Kingdom is Dying - Evald Flisar
- Napalm in the Heart - Pol Guasch
- Ordinary Saints - Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin
- Our Evenings - Alan Hollinghurst
- Our London Lives - Christine Dwyer Hickey
- Perfection - Vincenzo Latronico
- Perspective(s) - Laurent Binet
- Red Water - Jurica Pavicic
- Small Ceremonies - Kyle Edwards
- The Antidote - Karen Russell
- The Boy From the Sea - Garrett Carr
- The Burrow - Melanie Chung
- The City and Its Uncertain Walls - Haruki Murakami
- The Clues in the Fjord - Satu Ramo
- The Creation of Half-Broken People - Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
- The Dissenters - Youssef Rakha
- The Echoes - Evie Wyld
- The Edges - Angelo Tijssens
- The Emperor of Gladness - Ocean Vuong
- The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk
- The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin - Alison Goodman
- The Mires - Tina Makereti
- The Names - Florence Knapp
- The Night Guest - Hildur Knutsdottir
- The Original Daughter - Jemimah Wei
- The Tokyo Suite - Giovana Madalosso
- The Voices of Adriana - Elvira Navarro
- The Wager and the Bear - John Ironmonger
- The Weather Diviner - Elizabeth Murphy
- There are Rivers in the Sky: A Novel - Elif Shafak
- Time of the Flies - Claudia Pineiro
- Under the Eye of the Big Bird - Hiromi Kawakami
- Vanishing World - Sayaka Murata
- Voracious - Malgorazata Lebda
- We are Green and Trembling - Gabriela Cabezon Camara
- What I Know About You - Eric Chacour
Of these titles I have read and loved: Fiona McFarlane's Highway 13, Melanie Cheng's The Burrow, along with Evie Wyld's The Echoes. On my 'to be read' list are the novels by Alan Hollinghurst, Sally Rooney, and Ali Smith
Some of these books are familiar to me from awards this year but most I am unfamiliar with.
The winner of the 100,000 Euro prize declared on 21 May 2025. Happy Reading!
