The latest news on the Dublin literary award, formerly known as the Impac prize.
May 2024
€100,000 Dublin literary award won by Romanian author Mircea Cărtărescu
Cărtărescu’s novel Solenoid, translated by Sean Cotter, was described by judges as ‘wildly inventive with passages of great beauty’
May 2021
Valeria Luiselli wins €100,000 Dublin literary award for Lost Children Archive
Novel, which weaves together the stories of Mexican migrants with those of a US family on a road trip south, was picked for the prize by a Barcelona library
June 2019
'My life completely changed': debut wins world's richest prize for a novel
Nominated by just one library in Belgium, Emily Ruskovich’s Idaho lands the €100,000 International Dublin literary award
June 2018
Mike McCormack wins €100,000 International Dublin literary award with one-sentence novel
Solar Bones, the Irish author’s fifth book, is told by a ghost on All Souls’ Day and was turned away by major publishers as too uncommercial
June 2017
Angolan writer José Eduardo Agualusa wins €100,000 International Dublin literary award
The prestigious win, for A General Theory of Oblivion, will allow the novelist to fulfil a dream of building a public library, he says
June 2016
Akhil Sharma wins €100,000 Dublin International literary award
Family Life, his autobiographical novel, is praised by judges as ‘the highest form of achievement in literature’ but the winner has some humbler aspirations
April 2016
Shortlist announced for the 2016 International Dublin Literary award
Diverse 10-book shortlist for €100,000 prize pitches Man Booker winner Marlon James and Pulitzer prize winner Marilynne Robinson against debuts from Rwandan and Irish novelists
