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Anna Burns wins 2020 International Dublin Literary Award

The Irish author Anna Burns has won the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award for her novel Milkman, which tells the story of a young woman growing up in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.

Books • 22 Oct 20

International Dublin Literary Award - inside the shortlist

Although Irish authors have won in the past, the International Dublin Literary Award doesn't simply pay lip service to the international dimension of the prize, and this year readers will be brought on a journey around the world...

Books • 05 Sep 20

Watch: Mike McCormack's Dublin Literary Award Acceptance Speech

Galway based author Mike McCormack was today announced as the winner of the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award.

Literature • 13 Jun 18

Eimear McBride's The Young Bohemians - shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award.

Dublin Literary Award - inside the 2018 shortlist

Two Irish authors and six novels in translation from countries including South Korea and Mexico feature on this year's Dublin Literary Award shortlist. RTÉ Arts and Media correspondent Sinéad Crowley has been taking a look at the list.

Books • 05 Apr 18

Emma Donoghue: nominated for the International Dublin Literary award longlist for her novel The Wonder

Seven Irish authors on International Dublin Award longlist

Seven Irish authors have made the long-list for the International Dublin Literary Award, a list which features 150 titles.

Culture • 06 Nov 17

Akhil Sharma: surely one of the best collections of short stories in English to appear this year.

Reviewed: Akhil Sharma's Life of Adventure and Delight

New York-based writer Akhil Sharma won the International Dublin Literary Award last year for his superb novel, Family Life. His new collection of short stories continues the theme most familiar to him, the lives of Indian citizens at home and in the US.

Books • 25 Aug 17

José Eduardo Agualusa (right) and translator Daniel Hahn, winners of the 2017 International DUBLIN Literary Award.

Angolan writer wins €100,000 International Dublin Literary Award

Angolan author José Eduardo Agualusa has won the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award, the world's largest prize for a single novel published in English for A General Theory of Oblivion.

Books • 22 Jun 17

Seven Irish authors are in the running for the 2017 Dublin Literary Prize

Seven Irish novels in running for Dublin Literary Award

John Banville's The Blue Guitar, Kevin Barry's Beatlebone, Anne Enright 's The Green Road number among the Irish novels long-listed for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award.

International Dublin Literary Award • 22 Nov 16

International Dublin Literary Award