The Dublin City Council announced the (very, very long) longlist for the 2022 Dublin Literary Award, with 79 books in contention for the prize given to a novel written in, or translated into, English.
Among the American nominees for the award are Patricia Lockwood for No One Is Talking About This, previously a Booker Prize finalist; Kelli Jo Ford for Crooked Hallelujah; Matthew Salesses for Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear; Aaron Gwyn for All God’s Children; and Marilynne Robinson for Jack.
Akwaeke Emezi made the longlist for The Death of Vivek Oji; as did Zakiya Dalila Harris for The Other Black Girl; Yaa Gyasi for Transcendent Kingdom; Rachel Cusk for Second Place; Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir for Miss Iceland; Kazuo Ishiguro for Klara and the Sun; and David Diop for At Night All Blood Is Black, translated by Anna Moschovakis.
Four novels from the prize’s home country of Ireland made the longlist: Here Is the Beehive by Sarah Crossan, The Art of Falling by Danielle McLaughlin, Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan, and Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan.
The Dublin Literary Award was first awarded in 1996. Past winners have included Nicola Barker for Wide Open, Edward P. Jones for The Known World, and Anna Burns for Milkman. The winner of the award takes home a $112,000 cash prize; if a translated book prevails, the author wins $84,000, and the translator receives $28,000.
The books on the longlist were nominated by 94 libraries across the world. A shortlist for the prize will be revealed on March 22, with the winner announced by Dublin Lord Mayor Alison Gilliland on May 19.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
