International DUBLIN Literary Award Names 2019 Shortlist

The International DUBLIN Literary Award—which is given to a novel written in or translated into English—announced its 10-title 2019 shortlist. In its 24th year, the award is administered by Dublin City Public Libraries, with nominations submitted by “library systems in major cities throughout the world.”

Here is the 2019 shortlist (with bonus links where applicable):

• • Compass by Mathias Énard and translated by Charlotte Mandell (Featured in Lydia Kiesling‘s 2017 Year in Reading)

• • History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (Read our review)

• • Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (Read our essay on the “world-spanning humanism” of Hamid’s work)

• • Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty

• • Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor (Featured in our 2018 Second-Half Preview)

• • Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney (Read our review)

• • Idaho by Emily Ruskovich

• • Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (Read our review of the 2017 Man Booker winner)

• • A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert

• • Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (Featured in numerous Year in Reading entries)