The Dublin Literary Award Winner has been announced. After an extremely longlist of seventy-one titles, and a shortlist of six, the judges have determined a single winner.
The Winner of the 100,000 Euro prize is Canadian author Michael Crummey for The Adversary.
The Adversary is set in an isolated outport in northern Newfoundland. Abe Strapp is planning to marry the daughter of a rival merchant, when Widow Caines disrupts his nuptials. Two mercantile firms - the Caines and the Strapps - are now on a collision course, and locals are forced to take sides. This historical novel is Crummey’s sixth novel.