Back in November 2025, the nominations for the 2026 Dublin LiteraryAward were announced with 69 titles vying for contention. That list has now been whittled down to a longlist of twenty works of fiction as follows:
- Rachel Kushner - Creation Lake
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Dream Count
- Maria Reva - Endling
- Ali Smith - Gliff
- Aria Aber - Good Girl
- Magdelana Blazevic - In Late Summer
- Sally Rooney- Intermezzo
- Brigitte Giraud - Live Fast
- Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin - Ordinary Saints
- Alan Hollinghurst - Our Evenings
- Laurent Binet - Perspective(s)
- Karen Russell - The Antidote
- Donatella Di Pietrantonio - The Brittle Age
- Siphuwe Gloria Ndlovu - The Creation of Half-Broken People
- Evie Wyld - The Echoes
- Ocean Vyong - The Emperor of Gladness
- Olga Tokarczuk - The Empusium
- Jerimamah Wei - The Orignial Daughter
- Elif Shafak - There are Rivers in the Sky
- Eric Chacour - What I Know About You
This is an interesting Longlist. I have only read Evie Wyld's The Echoes, but I have Intermezzo, and Our Evenings. Many of these titles have been recognised elsewhere, for example, Karen Russell's The Antidote was shortlisted for the National Book Award 2025, Maria Reva's Endling was longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize, Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake was longlisted for the 2025 Carol Shields Prize, and both Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Dream Count and Aria Aber's Good Girl were longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize.
The Longlist will become a Shortlist of six titles in April 2026, while the winner of the 100,000 Euro prize will be announced in May 2026.