Book Awards By Year

2016 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerFamily LifeAkhil SharmaFinally joining their father in America, Ajay and Birju enjoy their new, extraordinary life until tragedy strikes, leaving one brother incapacitated and the other practically orphaned in this strange land in the second novel from the author of An Obedient ...Amazon2016 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistA Brief History of Seven KillingsMarlon JamesAmazonAcademy StreetMary CostelloAmazonDept. of SpeculationJenny OffillAmazonDiary of the Fall (Translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa)Michel LaubAmazonLilaMarilynne RobinsonAmazonOur Lady of the Nile (Translated from French by Melanie Mauthner)Scholastique MukasongaAmazonOutlaws (Translated from Spanish by Anne McLean)Javier CercasAmazonThe...

2015 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerHarvestJim CraceSHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year On the morning after harvest, the inhabitants of a remote English village awaken looking forward to a hard-earned day of rest and feasting at their landowner's table. B...Amazon2015 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistAmericanahChimamanda Ngozi AdichieAmazonAndreï MakineBrief Loves That Live Forever (translated from French by Geoffrey Strachan)AmazonBurial RitesHannah KentAmazonHorses of God (translated from French by Lulu Norman)Mahi BinebineAmazonK (translated from Portuguese by Sue Branford)Bernardo KucinskiAmazonSomeoneAlice McDermottAmazonSpartaRoxana RobinsonAmazonThe Narrow Road to the Deep NorthRichard Flanag...

2014 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerThe Sound of Things FallingJuan Gabriel VásquezNo sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde in a seedy billiard hall in Bogot than Antonio Yammara realises that the ex-pilot has a secret....Amazon2014 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistA Death In The Family (translated from Norwegian by Don Bartlett) (My StruggleKarl Ove KnausgårdAmazonAbsolutionPatrick FlaneryAmazonQuestions of TravelMichelle de KretserAmazonThe Detour (translated from Dutch by David Colmer)Gerbrand BakkerAmazonThe Garden of Evening MistsTan Twan EngAmazonThree Strong Women (translated from French by John Fletcher)Marie NDiayeAmazonTraveller of the Century (translated from Spanish by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia)Andrés NeumanAmazon

2013 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerCity of BohaneKevin Barry* Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Book Award in the First Novel category * A blazingly original, wildly stylish, and pulpy debut novel "City of Bohane, the extraordinary first novel by the Irish writer Kevin Barry, is full of marvels. They are all literary ...Amazon2013 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel Shortlist1Q84Haruki MurakamiAmazonAndrew MillerPureAmazonCaesarion (translated from Dutch by Sam Garrett)Tommy WieringaAmazonFrom the Mouth of the WhaleSjónAmazonSwamplandia!Karen RussellAmazonThe Buddha in the AtticJulie OtsukaAmazonThe Faster I Walk , The Smaller I AmKjersti Annesdatter SkomsvoldAmazonThe Map and the TerritoryMichel HouellebecqAmazonThe Tragedy of ArthurArthur PhillipsAmazon

2012 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerEven the DogsJon McGregor“A ferocious book, at once intense and alarmingly unsentimental.” —James Wood, The New Yorker On a cold, quiet day between Christmas and the New Year, a man's body is found in an abandoned apartment. His friends look on, but they're dead, too. Their bodies...Amazon2012 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistA Visit from the Goon SquadJennifer EganAmazonLandedTim PearsAmazonLean on PeteWilly VlautinAmazonLimassolYishai SaridAmazonMatterhornKarl MarlantesAmazonRocks in the BellyJon BauerAmazonThe Eternal SonCristóvão TezzaAmazonThe Matter with MorrisDavid BergenAmazonThe Memory of LoveAminatta FornaAmazon