Dublin Literary Award: Chair of the judging panel Prof Chris Morash, Lord Mayor of Dublin Councillor Ray McAdam, and Dublin City librarian Mairead Owens with the six novels shortlisted for the 2026 award, sponsored by Dublin City Council. Photograph: Chris Bellew/Fennell PhotographyNovels translated from French make up half the six-strong shortlist for this year’s Dublin Literary Award, sponsored by Dublin City Council, which is worth €100,000 to the winner. “The 2026 shortlist for the Dublin Literary Award stands as a celebration of the finest qualities of literature at its most international, most ambitious, and most humane,” the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Councillor Ray McAdam, the prize’s patron, said. Unique among literary prizes, nominations are submitted by librarians and readers from a network of libraries around the world. The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean VuongA young man perched on a bridge, determined to jump.

Source: The Irish Times April 07, 2026 14:54 UTC