Dublin City Council has announced the 20 novels longlisted for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award, marking the 31st year of the international prize.
Irish debut novelist Niamh Ní Mhaoleoin was longlisted for Ordinary Saints, published by Manilla Press, with Sally Rooney also selected for Intermezzo, published by Faber.
The award is valued at €100,000 for a single work of fiction published in English. For translated works, €75,000 is awarded to the author and €25,000 to the translator. Nominations are submitted by librarians and readers from library systems worldwide.
The 2026 longlist includes writers such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Dream Count (4th Estate/HarperCollins), Alan Hollinghurst for Our Evenings (Picador), and Ocean Vuong for The Emperor of Gladness (Jonathan Cape).
Six translated titles feature on the list, including The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones and published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, and In Late Summer by Madalena Blažević, translated from Croatian by Anđelka Raguž and published by Linden Editions.
Other longlisted titles include Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (Simon & Schuster), Endling by Maria Reva (Penguin Random House), Gliff by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton), Good Girl by Aria Aber (Bloomsbury), and There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak (Viking).
The shortlist will be announced on 7th April, with the overall winner set to be revealed on 21st May 2026 by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Councillor Ray McAdam, during the International Literature Festival Dublin.
Find out more about this year's Dublin Literary Award shortlist here
