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Tyll, Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Ross Benjamin (Quercus)
The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf)
Inland, Téa Obreht (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
We Cast a Shadow, Maurice Carlos Ruffin (One World)
The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
The Bird King, G. Willow Wilson (Grove Press)
A total of 49 titles were nominated by libraries from 30 countries. The shortlist will be announced March 25, 2021, and the winner May 20. The shortlist and winner are chosen by the judging panel, consisting of Jan Carson, David James Karashima, Rita Sakr, Martín Veiga, and Enda Wyley, with Chris Morash acting as non-voting chairperson.
For more information, including the complete longlist, see the award website.
The Library of Trinity College Dublin has acquired the Beckett archive of the play
Rockaby building on its world leading Beckett collections. The Beckett material is being digitised and will be accessible online.
Marking the acquisition of the 1981 play
Rockaby, one of the iconic plays of the Beckett canon, an online exhibition curated by Dr Jane Maxwell has been launched today. The entire archive will be made available later this year as part of the Library’s Digital Collections. It includes 30 items of correspondence from Beckett; copies of the original play and its French translation; productions notes; photographs; and a printed commemoration booklet of photographs from the premiere among other items.
Four Irish authors on longlist for prestigious €100k Dublin Literary Award
Previous winners include Anna Burns for Milkman, and Mike McCormack for Solar Bones. By Aoife Barry Thursday 4 Feb 2021, 12:52 PM Feb 4th 2021, 12:52 PM 11,608 Views 2 Comments
THE LONGLIST FOR this year’s Dublin Literary Award have been announced – and four Irish novels are on the list.
There are 49 books in total on the longlist, which have been nominated by libraries around the world for the award, which is sponsored by Dublin City Council.
The €100,000 award – which is in its 26th year – is the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction published in English. If the winning book has been translated, the author receives €75,000 and the translator receives €25,000.
Mint Theater Company will continue its Silver Lining Streaming Series with the on-demand streaming of the three-camera archival recording (filmed in HD!) of Katie Roche by Teresa Deevy, directed by Jonathan Bank, beginning FEBRUARY 1st and continuing through MARCH 28th The price of admission is FREE. To receive a password, visit MintTheater.org.
Days To Come by Lillian Hellman (The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, Toys in the Attic, The Children s Hour), directed by J.R. Sullivan, continues through FEBRUARY 21st. Days To Come turns out to be a gripping piece of storytelling, one whose failure and subsequent obscurity make no sense at all. This is the 14th Mint Theater revival that I ve reviewed since 2005, and the 14th time I ve raved about the results. Such unfailing excellence merits much wider recognition. If you ve yet to see what the Mint can do, start here! said Terry Teachout in The Wall Street Journal.