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International Dublin Literary Award

Dublin City Council, with libraries around the world nominating titles

One of the richest literary prizes in the world, awarded annually for a novel written or translated into English. Titles are nominated by public libraries in cities across the globe, giving the award a distinctly international scope, and both original English-language works and translated fiction are eligible.

Latest winner · 2026

Next · expected March 2027

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2026

  1. Gliff

    Ali Smith

    Won

  2. In Late Summer

    Magdalena Blažević

    Shortlisted
  3. Live Fast

    Brigitte Giraud

    Shortlisted
  4. Perspective(s)

    Laurent Binet

    Shortlisted
  5. The Emperor of Gladness

    Ocean Vuong

    Shortlisted
  6. What I Know About You

    Éric Chacour

    Shortlisted

2025

  1. The Adversary

    Michael Crummey

    Won
  2. James

    Percival Everett

    Won 4 more awards · Nominated for 5 more awards

    Shortlisted
  3. North Woods

    Daniel Mason

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. Not a River

    Selva Almada

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. Prophet Song

    Paul Lynch

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. We Are Light

    Gerda Blees

    Shortlisted

2024

  1. Solenoid

    Mircea Cărtărescu

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Haven

    Emma Donoghue

    Shortlisted
  3. If I Survive You

    Jonathan Escoffery

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  4. Old God's Time

    Sebastian Barry

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. Praiseworthy

    Alexis Wright

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. The Sleeping Car Porter

    Suzette Mayr

    Shortlisted

2023

  1. Marzahn, Mon Amour

    Katja Oskamp

    Won
  2. Cloud Cuckoo Land

    Anthony Doerr

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Em

    Kim Thuy

    Shortlisted
  4. Love Novel

    Ivana Sajko

    Shortlisted
  5. Paradais

    Fernanda Melchor

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  6. The Trees

    Percival Everett

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted

2022

  1. The Art of Losing

    Alice Zeniter

    Won
  2. At Night All Blood Is Black

    David Diop

    Won 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  3. Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies

    Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

    Shortlisted
  4. Remote Sympathy

    Catherine Chidgey

    Shortlisted
  5. The Art of Falling

    Danielle McLaughlin

    Shortlisted
  6. The Death of Vivek Oji

    Akwaeke Emezi

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted

2021

  1. Lost Children Archive

    Valeria Luiselli

    Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 3 more awards

    Won
  2. Apeirogon

    Colum McCann

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  3. Girl, Woman, Other

    Bernardine Evaristo

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  4. Hurricane Season

    Fernanda Melchor

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

    Ocean Vuong

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  6. The Nickel Boys

    Colson Whitehead

    Won 3 more awards · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted

2020

  1. Milkman

    Anna Burns

    Won 3 more awards · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Won
  2. All the Lives We Never Lived

    Anuradha Roy

    Shortlisted
  3. An American Marriage

    Tayari Jones

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. Disoriental

    Négar Djavadi

    Shortlisted
  5. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

    Olga Tokarczuk

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. History of Violence

    Édouard Louis

    Shortlisted
  7. The Friend

    Sigrid Nunez

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  8. The Silence of the Girls

    Pat Barker

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  9. There There

    Tommy Orange

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 3 more awards

    Shortlisted
  10. Washington Black

    Esi Edugyan

    Nominated for 3 more awards

    Shortlisted

2019

  1. Idaho ‡

    Emily Ruskovich

    Won
  2. A Boy in Winter

    Rachel Seiffert

    Shortlisted
  3. Compass

    Mathias Énard

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. Conversations with Friends

    Sally Rooney

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. Exit West

    Mohsin Hamid

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 5 more awards

    Shortlisted
  6. History of Wolves

    Emily Fridlund

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  7. Home Fire

    Kamila Shamsie

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  8. Lincoln in the Bardo

    George Saunders

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  9. Midwinter Break

    Bernard MacLaverty

    Shortlisted
  10. Reservoir 13

    Jon McGregor

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted

2018

  1. Solar Bones

    Mike McCormack

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Baba Dunja's Last Love

    Alina Bronsky

    Shortlisted
  3. Distant Light

    Antonio Moresco

    Shortlisted
  4. Human Acts

    Han Kang

    Shortlisted
  5. Ladivine

    Marie NDiaye

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. My Name Is Lucy Barton

    Elizabeth Strout

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  7. The Lesser Bohemians

    Eimear McBride

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  8. The Transmigration of Bodies

    Yuri Herrera

    Shortlisted
  9. The Unseen

    Roy Jacobsen

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  10. The Woman Next Door

    Yewande Omotoso

    Shortlisted

2017

  1. A General Theory of Oblivion

    José Eduardo Agualusa

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. A Little Life

    Hanya Yanagihara

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 4 more awards

    Shortlisted
  3. A Strangeness in My Mind

    Orhan Pamuk

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. A Whole Life

    Robert Seethaler

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. Confession of the Lioness

    Mia Couto

    Shortlisted
  6. The Green Road

    Anne Enright

    Nominated for 3 more awards

    Shortlisted
  7. The Prophets of Eternal Fjord

    Kim Leine

    Shortlisted
  8. The Story of My Teeth

    Valeria Luiselli

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  9. The Sympathizer

    Viet Thanh Nguyen

    Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  10. Under the Udala Trees

    Chinelo Okparanta

    Shortlisted

2016

  1. Family Life

    Akhil Sharma

    Won 1 more award

    Won
  2. A Brief History of Seven Killings

    Marlon James

    Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Academy Street

    Mary Costello

    Shortlisted
  4. Dept. of Speculation

    Jenny Offill

    Nominated for 3 more awards

    Shortlisted
  5. Diary of the Fall

    Michel Laub

    Shortlisted
  6. Lila

    Marilynne Robinson

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  7. Our Lady of the Nile

    Scholastique Mukasonga

    Shortlisted
  8. Outlaws

    Javier Cercas

    Shortlisted
  9. The End of Days

    Jenny Erpenbeck

    Shortlisted
  10. Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

    Dave Eggers

    Shortlisted

2015

  1. Harvest

    Jim Crace

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Won
  2. Americanah

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  3. Brief Loves That Live Forever

    Andreï Makine

    Shortlisted
  4. Burial Rites

    Hannah Kent

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. Horses of God

    Mahi Binebine

    Shortlisted
  6. K.

    Bernardo Kucinski

    Shortlisted
  7. Someone

    Alice McDermott

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  8. Sparta

    Roxana Robinson

    Shortlisted
  9. The Narrow Road to the Deep North

    Richard Flanagan

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  10. TransAtlantic

    Colum McCann

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted

2014

  1. The Sound of Things Falling

    Juan Gabriel Vásquez

    Won
  2. Absolution

    Patrick Flanery

    Shortlisted
  3. My Struggle 1: A Death in the Family

    Karl Ove Knausgård

    Shortlisted
  4. Questions of Travel

    Michelle de Kretser

    Shortlisted
  5. The Detour

    Gerbrand Bakker

    Shortlisted
  6. The Garden of Evening Mists

    Tan Twan Eng

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  7. The Light of Amsterdam

    David Park

    Shortlisted
  8. The Spinning Heart

    Donal Ryan

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  9. Three Strong Women

    Marie NDiaye

    Shortlisted
  10. Traveller of the Century

    Andrés Neuman

    Shortlisted

2013

  1. City of Bohane

    Kevin Barry

    Won
  2. 1Q84

    Haruki Murakami

    Shortlisted
  3. Caesarion

    Tommy Wieringa

    Shortlisted
  4. From the Mouth of the Whale

    Sjón

    Shortlisted
  5. Pure

    Andrew Miller

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. Swamplandia!

    Karen Russell

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  7. The Buddha in the Attic

    Julie Otsuka

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted

  8. The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

    Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold

    Shortlisted
  9. The Map and the Territory

    Michel Houellebecq

    Shortlisted
  10. The Tragedy of Arthur

    Arthur Phillips

    Shortlisted

2012

  1. Even the Dogs

    Jon McGregor

    Won
  2. A Visit from the Goon Squad

    Jennifer Egan

    Won 3 more awards · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Landed

    Tim Pears

    Shortlisted
  4. Lean on Pete

    Willy Vlautin

    Shortlisted
  5. Limassol

    Yishai Sarid

    Shortlisted
  6. Matterhorn

    Karl Marlantes

    Shortlisted
  7. Rocks in the Belly

    Jon Bauer

    Shortlisted
  8. The Eternal Son

    Cristóvão Tezza

    Shortlisted
  9. The Matter with Morris

    David Bergen

    Shortlisted
  10. The Memory of Love

    Aminatta Forna

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted

2011

  1. Let the Great World Spin

    Colum McCann

    Won 1 more award

    Won
  2. After the Fire, A Still Small Voice

    Evie Wyld

    Shortlisted
  3. Brooklyn

    Colm Tóibín

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. Galore

    Michael Crummey

    Shortlisted
  5. Jasper Jones

    Craig Silvey

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. Little Bird of Heaven

    Joyce Carol Oates

    Shortlisted
  7. Love and Summer

    William Trevor

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  8. Ransom

    David Malouf

    Shortlisted
  9. The Lacuna

    Barbara Kingsolver

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  10. The Vagrants

    Yiyun Li

    Shortlisted

2010

  1. The Twin

    Gerbrand Bakker

    Won
  2. God's Own Country

    Ross Raisin

    Shortlisted
  3. Home

    Marilynne Robinson

    Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  4. In Zodiac Light

    Robert Edric

    Shortlisted
  5. Netherland

    Joseph O'Neill

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. Settlement

    Christoph Hein

    Shortlisted
  7. The Believers

    Zoë Heller

    Shortlisted
  8. The Elegance of the Hedgehog

    Muriel Barbery

    Shortlisted

2009

  1. Man Gone Down ‡

    Michael Thomas

    Won
  2. Animal's People

    Indra Sinha

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Ravel

    Jean Echenoz

    Shortlisted
  4. The Archivist's Story

    Travis Holland

    Shortlisted
  5. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

    Junot Díaz

    Won 3 more awards · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles

    Roy Jacobsen

    Shortlisted
  7. The Indian Clerk

    David Leavitt

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  8. The Reluctant Fundamentalist

    Mohsin Hamid

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted

2008

  1. De Niro's Game ‡

    Rawi Hage

    Won
  2. Dreams of Speaking

    Gail Jones

    Shortlisted
  3. Let It Be Morning

    Sayed Kashua

    Shortlisted
  4. The Attack

    Yasmina Khadra

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. The Speed of Light

    Javier Cercas

    Shortlisted
  6. The Sweet & Simple Kind

    Yasmine Gooneratne

    Shortlisted
  7. The Woman Who Waited

    Andreï Makine

    Shortlisted
  8. Winterwood

    Patrick McCabe

    Shortlisted

2007

  1. Out Stealing Horses

    Per Petterson

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. A Long Long Way

    Sebastian Barry

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Arthur & George

    Julian Barnes

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

    Jonathan Safran Foer

    Shortlisted
  5. No Country for Old Men

    Cormac McCarthy

    Shortlisted
  6. Shalimar the Clown

    Salman Rushdie

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  7. Slow Man

    J. M. Coetzee

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  8. The Short Day Dying

    Peter Hobbs

    Shortlisted

2006

  1. The Master

    Colm Tóibín

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. An Altered Light

    Jens Christian Grøndahl

    Shortlisted
  3. Breaking the Tongue

    Vyvyane Loh

    Shortlisted
  4. Don't Move

    Margaret Mazzantini

    Shortlisted
  5. GraceLand

    Chris Abani

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. Havoc, in Its Third Year

    Ronan Bennett

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  7. Maps for Lost Lovers

    Nadeem Aslam

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  8. The Closed Circle

    Jonathan Coe

    Shortlisted
  9. The Logogryph

    Thomas Wharton

    Shortlisted
  10. The Swallows of Kabul

    Yasmina Khadra

    Shortlisted

2005

  1. The Known World

    Edward P. Jones

    Won 3 more awards · Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Deafening

    Frances Itani

    Shortlisted
  3. Elle

    Douglas Glover

    Shortlisted
  4. Gardening at Night

    Diane Awerbuck

    Shortlisted
  5. Phantom Pain

    Arnon Grunberg

    Shortlisted
  6. The Fortress of Solitude

    Jonathan Lethem

    Shortlisted
  7. The Good Doctor

    Damon Galgut

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  8. The Great Fire

    Shirley Hazzard

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  9. The Half Brother

    Lars Saabye Christensen

    Shortlisted
  10. Willenbrock

    Christoph Hein

    Shortlisted

2004

  1. This Blinding Absence of Light

    Tahar Ben Jelloun

    Won
  2. Any Human Heart

    William Boyd

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Balthasar's Odyssey

    Amin Maalouf

    Shortlisted
  4. Caramelo

    Sandra Cisneros

    Shortlisted
  5. Earth and Ashes

    Atiq Rahimi

    Shortlisted
  6. Family Matters

    Rohinton Mistry

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  7. House of Day, House of Night

    Olga Tokarczuk

    Shortlisted
  8. Middlesex

    Jeffrey Eugenides

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  9. The Book of Illusions

    Paul Auster

    Shortlisted
  10. The White Family

    Maggie Gee

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted

2003

  1. My Name Is Red

    Orhan Pamuk

    Won
  2. Bel Canto

    Ann Patchett

    Won 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  3. Bitter Fruit

    Achmat Dangor

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. That They May Face the Rising Sun

    John McGahern

    Shortlisted
  5. The Ash Garden

    Dennis Bock

    Shortlisted
  6. The Corrections

    Jonathan Franzen

    Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 3 more awards

    Shortlisted
  7. The Migrant Painter of Birds

    Lídia Jorge

    Shortlisted
  8. The Visit of the Royal Physician

    Per Olov Enquist

    Shortlisted

2002

  1. Atomised

    Michel Houellebecq

    Won
  2. Madame

    Antoni Libera

    Shortlisted
  3. The Blind Assassin

    Margaret Atwood

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. The Keepers of Truth

    Michael Collins

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. The Last Samurai

    Helen DeWitt

    Shortlisted
  6. The Years with Laura Diaz

    Carlos Fuentes

    Shortlisted
  7. True History of the Kelly Gang

    Peter Carey

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted

2001

  1. No Great Mischief

    Alistair MacLeod

    Won
  2. Our Fathers

    Andrew O'Hagan

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. The Blackwater Lightship

    Colm Tóibín

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. The Clay Machine-Gun

    Victor Pelevin

    Shortlisted
  5. The Love You Promised Me

    Silvia Molina

    Shortlisted
  6. The True History of Paradise

    Margaret Cezair-Thompson

    Shortlisted

2000

  1. Wide Open

    Nicola Barker

    Won
  2. Charming Billy

    Alice McDermott

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. I Married a Communist

    Philip Roth

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. Paradise

    Toni Morrison

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. The Hours

    Michael Cunningham

    Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. This Side of Brightness

    Colum McCann

    Shortlisted
  7. Trumpet

    Jackie Kay

    Shortlisted

1999

  1. Ingenious Pain ‡

    Andrew Miller

    Won 1 more award

    Won
  2. Enduring Love

    Ian McEwan

    Shortlisted
  3. Quarantine

    Jim Crace

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. The Ordinary Seaman

    Francisco Goldman

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  5. The Puttermesser Papers

    Cynthia Ozick

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. The Reader

    Bernhard Schlink

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  7. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

    Haruki Murakami

    Shortlisted
  8. Underworld

    Don DeLillo

    Nominated for 3 more awards

    Shortlisted

1998

  1. The Land of Green Plums

    Herta Müller

    Won
  2. Alias Grace

    Margaret Atwood

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  3. Autobiography of My Mother

    Jamaica Kincaid

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. Imaginings of Sand

    André Brink

    Shortlisted
  5. Last Orders

    Graham Swift

    Won 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  6. Salt

    Earl Lovelace

    Shortlisted
  7. The Counting House

    David Dabydeen

    Shortlisted
  8. The Englishman's Boy

    Guy Vanderhaeghe

    Shortlisted
  9. The Glade Within the Grove

    David Foster

    Shortlisted
  10. The Pope's Rhinoceros

    Lawrence Norfolk

    Shortlisted

1997

  1. A Heart So White

    Javier Marías

    Won
  2. A Fine Balance

    Rohinton Mistry

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. A Tiler's Afternoon

    Lars Gustafsson

    Shortlisted
  4. Morvern Callar

    Alan Warner

    Shortlisted
  5. Novel Without a Name

    Dương Thu Hương

    Shortlisted
  6. Pereira Maintains

    Antonio Tabucchi

    Shortlisted
  7. Reservation Blues

    Sherman Alexie

    Shortlisted
  8. The Good Negress

    A. J. Verdelle

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted

1996

  1. Remembering Babylon

    David Malouf

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. A Way in the World

    V. S. Naipaul

    Shortlisted
  3. Away

    Jane Urquhart

    Shortlisted
  4. Ghosts

    John Banville

    Shortlisted
  5. The Following Story

    Cees Nooteboom

    Shortlisted
  6. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

    José Saramago

    Shortlisted
  7. The Laws

    Connie Palmen

    Shortlisted

Frequently asked questions

Who won the International Dublin Literary Award in 2026?
“Gliff” by Ali Smith won the International Dublin Literary Award in 2026.
Who are the most recent International Dublin Literary Award winners?
2026: “Gliff” by Ali Smith; 2025: “The Adversary” by Michael Crummey; 2024: “Solenoid” by Mircea Cărtărescu; 2023: “Marzahn, Mon Amour” by Katja Oskamp; 2022: “The Art of Losing” by Alice Zeniter.