A group of Cork students who established their own publishing press during lockdown are about to release an anthology of creative writing in support of the Sexual Violence Centre, Cork.
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Among the Irish entries are Anne Griffin’s ‘When All is Said’ which was nominated by Łódź Public Library in Poland.
Joseph O’Connor’s ‘Shadowplay’ was nominated by the Municipal Library of Genève in Switzerland while The Trumpet Shall Sound by Eibhear Walshe was chosen by Cork City Libraries.
Also in the running is ‘Apeirogon’ by Colum McCann and nominated by South Dublin Libraries.
Speaking at the launch of the long-list, award patron and Dublin Lord Mayo Hazel Chu praised the awards for the opportunity it gives to promote Irish writing internationally.
She said readers annually await the long-list with “keen excitement and interest.”
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.