Wyld among authors longlisted for 2026 Dublin Literary Award

Evie Wyld, winner of the 2014 Miles Franklin Award and the 2021 Stella Prize, is among the 20 authors whose novels have been longlisted for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award, sponsored by Dublin City Council.

Nominations are submitted by librarians and readers from libraries around the world. The winner receives €100,000 (A$167,000) or, if the book has been translated, the author receives €75,000 (A$125,000) and the translator €25,000 (A$42,000).

The 2026 longlisted novels are:

• The Antidote (Karen Russell, Chatto & Windus)
• The Brittle Age (Donatella Di Pietrantonio, trans by Ann Goldstein, Europa Editions)
• The Creation of Half-Broken People (Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, Picador Africa)
• The Echoes (Evie Wyld, Vintage)
• The Emperor of Gladness (Ocean Vuong, Vintage)
• The Empusium (Olga Tokarczuk, trans by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Text)
• Creation Lake (Rachel Kushner, Vintage)
• Dream Count (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Fourth Estate)
• Endling (Maria Reva, Virago)
• Gliff (Ali Smith, Penguin General)
• Good Girl (Aria Aber, Bloomsbury)
• In Late Summer (Magdalena Blažević, trans by Anđelka Raguž, Linden Editions)
• Intermezzo (Sally Rooney, Faber)
• Live Fast (Brigitte Giraud, trans by Cory Stockwell, Ecco)
• Ordinary Saints (Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin, Manilla)
• Our Evenings (Alan Hollinghurst, Picador)
• Perspectives (Laurent Binet, trans by Sam Taylor, Vintage)
• The Original Daughter (Jemimah Wei, Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• There are Rivers in the Sky (Elif Shafak, Penguin General)
• What I Know About You (Éric Chacour, trans by Pablo Strauss, Pushkin).

The shortlist, selected by an international panel of judges that rotates each year, will be announced on 7 April.

The award was created in 1996 as the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and was renamed the International Dublin Literary Award from 2016 to 2020.

Last year’s winner was Michael Crummey’s The Adversary (Knopf).

Category: Local news