Mexican author Valeria Luiselli has won the 2021 Dublin Literary Award for Lost Children Archive.
The novel, the first the author has written in English, follows an artist couple on a road trip from New York to Arizona with their two children in the heat of summer. As their parentsâ relationship frays, the children try to make sense of both their familyâs crisis and the larger one engulfing the news: the stories of thousands of children trying to cross the border into the US but getting detained or lost in the desert along the way. The winner was announced today online by Dublinâs Lord Mayor Hazel Chu at the opening of the International Literature Festival Dublin, which runs until May 30th. The presentation took place at the Irish Consulate in New York City, where Luiselli lives. Consul General Ciarán Madden and Colm TóibÃn, who won the award in 2006 for The Master, presented Luiselli with her prize on behalf of its sponsor, Dublin City Council.
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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.
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.