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2021 LONGLIST Clap When You Land Elizabeth Acevedo............................... 1 Things That Fall From The Sky Selja Ahava.......................... 1 Homeland Fernando Aramburu............................................. 1 The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett............................................2 The White Girl Tony Birch..................................................... 2 It Would Be Night In Caracus Karina Sainz Borgo...................2 The Cat and The City Nick Bradley.........................................3 The Confessions of Frannie Langton Sara Collins.................. 3 The Innocents Michael Crummy............................................ 4 The Pelican: a comedy Martin Michael Driessen.................. 4 Catacombs Mary Anna Evans.................................................5 Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo.................................5 The Other Name: Septology 1-11 Jon Fosse......................... 5 Gun Island Amitav Ghosh..................................................... 6 When All Is Said Anne Griffin................................................6 The Eighth Life: ( for Brilka ) Nino Haratischwili................... 6 Beyond Yamashita and Percival Shaari Isa............................ 7 . Tyll Daniel Kehlmann........................................................... 7 The Ditch Herman Koch....................................................... 8 . While The Music Played Nathaniel Lande..............................8 Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water António Lobo Antunes......................................................... 9 Lost Children Archive Valeria Luiselli.................................... 9 The Boy Marcus Malte ......................................................... 10 Auē Becky Manawatu........................................................... 10 The Glass Hotel Emily St. John Mandel..................................11 Apeirogon Colum McCann.................................................... 11 Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor..................................... 11 The Silent Patient Alex Michaelides......................................12 Cilka’s Journey Heather Morris..............................................12 Dark Mother Earth Kristian Novak.........................................12 Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. Joyce Carol Oates...................13 Inland Téa Obreht................................................................ 13 Shadowplay Joseph O’Connor................................................13 Mona in Three Acts Griet Op de Beeck.................................. 14 This Excellent Machine Stephen Orr..................................... 14 . Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen Dexter Palmer......................15 The Pine Islands Marion Poschmann.....................................15 A Chronicle of Forgetting Sebastijan Pregelj......................... 16 We Cast a Shadow Maurice Ruffin......................................... 16 Beside Myself Sasha Marianna Salzmann..............................16 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World Elif Shafak........................................................................... 17 The Subtweet: A Novel Vivek Shraya..................................... 17 Crossing Patjim Statovci.......................................................18 On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong.......................18 The Trumpet Shall Sound Eibhear Walshe............................. 18 The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead....................................... 19 Reproduction Ian Williams................................................... 19 The Bird King G.Willow Wilson............................................. 20 The Yield Tara June Winch....................................................20 Translated Novels.................................................................21
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Clap When You Land Things That Fall From The Sky Homeland
Elizabeth Acevedo Selja Ahava Fernando Aramburu
Nominated by: Translated from the Finnish by Emily Translated from the Spanish by Alfred
Rede de Bibliotecas de Lisboa-Portugal Jeremiah and Fleur Jeremiah McAdam
In a novel-in-verse Nominated by: Nominated by:
that brims with Tampere City Library, Finland Universitӓts-und Landesbibliothek
grief and love, Bonn, Germany
National Book One quirk of fate
Award-winning and can send life In the heart of
New York Times spiralling in the Spain’s Basque
bestselling author most unexpected Country, two
Elizabeth Acevedo direction... friends, Miren and
writes about the A young girl loses Bittori, find their
devastation of loss, her mother when worlds upended
the difficulty of a block of ice falls by violence. When
forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds from the sky. A Bittori’s husband
that shape our lives. woman wins the runs afoul of
jackpot twice. A the separatist
Camino Rios lives for the summers man is struck by organization ETA,
when her father visits her in the lightning four times. Coincidence? Or a terrorist group of which Miren’s son,
Dominican Republic. But this time, on something more? Joxe Mari, is a member, both women
the day when his plane is supposed to Things That Fall from the Sky is the must choose between their friendship
land, Camino arrives at the airport to tale of three lives that are changed and their families. Moving back and
see crowds of crying people…In New forever by random events. But it is also forth in time and told through the
York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the a meditation on the endurance of love, eyes of a rich cast of characters from
principal’s office, where her mother the passage of time and the pain of loss. all walks of life, Fernando Aramburu’s
is waiting to tell her that her father, Selja Ahava, one of Finland’s best-loved dazzling novel probes the lasting legacy
her hero, has died in a plane crash. novelists, weaves these stories together of conflict. A work of nearly unbearable
Separated by distance—and Papi’s in an unforgettable, one-of-a-kind fable suspense, Homeland is a searing
secrets—the two girls are forced to face about the twists and turns that can examination of truth, reconciliation, and
a new reality in which their father is define a lifetime. coming to terms with history.
dead and their lives are forever altered.
Selja Ahava is a novelist and a scriptwriter. Fernando Aramburu, born in San Sebastián,
And then, when it seems like they’ve
Her acclaimed debut novel The Day the Spain, in 1959 is considered one of the most
lost everything of their father, they learn
Whale Swam through London (2010) was remarkable writers in the Spanish language.
of each other.
nominated for the Helsingin Sanomat He won the Ramón Gómez de la Serna
Literary Prize, and won the Laura Hirvisaari Prize in 1997, the Euskadi Prize in 2001,
Elizabeth Acevedo is the author of The
Prize (the Bookseller’s Literary Prize) in 2010. and, for his short story collection Los peces
Poet X—which won the National Book
Her second novel, Things that Fall from the de la amargura, the Mario Vargas Llosa
Award for Young People’s Literature, the
Sky (2015) won the EU Prize for Literature in NH Short Story Award, the Dulce Chacón
Michael L. Printz Award, the Pura Belpré
2016, and was nominated for the Finlandia Prize, and the Prize of the Spanish Royal
Award, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award,
Prize and the Tulenkantajat Prize. Academy in 2008. Among his most recent
and the Walter Award—as well as With the
novels, Años lentoswon the Premio Tusquets
Fire on High and Clap When You Land. She
de Novela in 2011 and was named Book
is a National Poetry Slam champion and
Emily Jeremiah and Fleur Jeremiah are the of the Year in 2012 by the booksellers of
holds an MFA in creative writing from the
translators of Aki Ollikainen’s White Hunger Madrid. But it is his novel Patria(Homeland),
University of Maryland. Acevedo lives with
(Pereine Press, 2015), which was longlisted a stunning success among readers and
her partner in Washington, DC.
for the 2016 Man Booker International winner of unanimous acclaim (National
Prize. Their other co-translations include Prize for Literature, National Critics Prize,
Available to borrow on Borrowbox Asko Sahlberg’s The Brothers (Peirene Press, Euskadi Prize, Francisco Umbral Prize, Strega
from Dublin City LIbraries/Public 2012). European Prize, Tomasi di Lampedusa Prize,
Libraries Ireland. among many others) that has distinguished
him as a writer who will leave his mark on
Available to borrow on Borrowbox our era.
from DublinCity Libraries/Public
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Alfred MacAdam is professor of Latin riveting, emotional family story and a Writing, and shortlisted for the 2020 Miles
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American literature at Barnard College- brilliant exploration of the American Franklin Literary Prize; Ghost River, winner
Columbia University. He has translated history of passing. of the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary
works by Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Award for Indigenous Writing; and Blood,
Llosa, Juan Carlos Onetti, José Donoso, Looking well beyond issues of race, The which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin
and Jorge Volpi among others. He recently Vanishing Half considers the lasting Award in 2012. He is also the author
published an essay on the Portuguese poet influence of the past as it shapes of Shadowboxing and three short story
Fernando Pessoa included in The Cambridge a person’s decisions, desires, and collections, Father’s Day, The Promise and
Common People. In 2017 he was awarded
Companion to Autobiography. expectations, and explores some of the
the Patrick White Literary Award. In 2021
multiple reasons and realms in which he will release two new books, a poetry
people sometimes feel pulled to live as collection, Whisper Songs, and a new short
Available to borrow on Borrowbox something other than their origins. story collection, Dark as Last Night. Tony
from DublinCity Libraries/Public Birch is also an activist, historian and
Libraries Ireland. Brit Bennett, born and raised in Southern essayist.
California, graduated from Stanford
University and later earned her MFA in
fiction at the University of Michigan, where Available to borrow on Borrowbox
The Vanishing Half she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate from DublinCity Libraries/Public
Brit Bennett Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/ Libraries Ireland.
Wright Award for College Writers. Her work
Nominated by: is featured in The New Yorker, The New
Richland Library, United States York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and
Jezebel. She is one of the National Book
From The New Foundation’s 2016 5 Under 35 honorees.
It Would Be Night In Caracus
York Times-
Karina Sainz Borgo
bestselling author Translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth
of The Mothers, Bryer
a stunning new
novel about twin Nominated by:
sisters, inseparable Coordenação-Geral do Sistema Nacional
as children, who
The White Girl
Tony Birch de Bibliotecas Públicas
ultimately choose
to live in two very Nominated by: In Caracas,
different worlds, State Library of Queensland, Australia Venezuela, Adelaida
one black and one white. Falcón stands over
an open grave.
The Vignes twin sisters will always be Odette Brown has Alone, she buries
identical. But after growing up together lived her whole her mother—the
in a small, southern black community life on the fringes only family she has
and running away at age sixteen, it’s not of a small country ever known—and
just the shape of their daily lives that town. Raising her worries that when
is different as adults, it’s everything: granddaughter Sissy night falls thieves
their families, their communities, their on her own, Odette will rob the grave.
racial identities. Many years later, one has managed to Even the dead cannot find peace here.
sister lives with her black daughter in stay under the
the same southern town she once tried radar of the welfare Adelaida had a stable childhood in a
to escape. The other secretly passes authorities who prosperous Venezuela that accepted
for white, and her white husband are removing Aboriginal children from immigrants in search of a better life,
knows nothing of her past. Still, even their communities. When the menacing where she lived with her single-
separated by so many miles and just Sergeant Lowe arrives in town, mother in a humble apartment. But
as many lies, the fates of the twins determined to fully enforce the law, any now? Every day she lines up for bread
remain intertwined. What will happen freedom that Odette and Sissy enjoy that will inevitably be sold out by the
to the next generation, when their own comes under grave threat. Odette must time she reaches the registers. Every
daughters’ storylines intersect? make an impossible choice to protect night she tapes her windows to shut
her family. out the tear gas raining down on
Weaving together multiple strands protesters. When looters masquerading
and generations of this family, from Tony Birch is the author of three novels: the as revolutionaries take over her
the Deep South to California, from the bestselling The White Girl, winner of the apartment, Adelaida must make a
1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett 2020 NSW Premier’s Award for Indigenous series of gruesome choices in order to
.
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survive in a country disintegrating into
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anarchy, where citizens are increasingly The Cat and The City The Confessions of
pitted against each other. But just how Nick Bradley Frannie Langton
far is she willing to go? Sara Collins
Nominated by:
A bold new voice from Latin America, Norfolk Library and Information Service, Nominated by:
Karina Sainz Borgo’s touching, thrilling United Kingdom Jamaica Library Service, Jamaica
debut is an ode to the Venezuelan The Seattle Public Library, United States
people and a chilling reminder of
In Tokyo – one
how quickly the world we know can
of the world’s ‘They say I must
crumble.
largest megacities be put to death for
– a stray cat is what happened to
Karina Sainz Borgo was born and raised in
wending her way Madame, and they
Caracas. She began her career in Venezuela
through the back want me to confess.
as a journalist for El Nacional. Since
alleys. And, with But how can I
immigrating to Spain ten years ago, she
each detour, she confess what I don’t
has written for Vozpópuli and collaborates
brushes up against believe I’ve done?’
with the literary magazine Zenda. She is the
the seemingly
author of two nonfiction books, Tráfico y
disparate lives
Guaire (2008) and Caracas Hip-Hop (2008).
of the city-dwellers, connecting them
It Would Be Night in Caracas is her first work
in unexpected ways .But the city is 1826, and all of London is in a frenzy.
of fiction.
changing. As it does, it pushes her Crowds gather at the gates of the Old
to the margins where she chances Bailey to watch as Frannie Langton,
Elizabeth Bryer is the author of a book and
upon a series of apparent strangers maid to Mr and Mrs Benham, goes on
the translator of a few of them .Her debut
– from a homeless man squatting trial for their murder. The testimonies
novel From Here On, Monsters is out now
in an abandoned hotel, to a shut-in against her are damning - slave, whore,
with Picador Australia. It was joint winner of
hermit afraid to leave his house, to a seductress. And they may be the truth.
the 2020 Norma K Hemming Award
convenience store worker searching for But they are not the whole truth.For the
She has translated novels from Spanish by
love. The cat orbits Tokyo’s denizens, first time Frannie must tell her story.
Peruvian-, Chilean-, Colombian-, Venezuelan-,
drawing them ever closer.
Mallorcan- and Polish-born authors,
including Aleksandra Lun’s The Palimpsests, It begins with a girl learning to read
Nick Bradley is a graduate of the UEA on a plantation in Jamaica, and it ends
awarded a PEN/Heim Translation fund grant
Creative Writing MA who is currently in a grand house in London, where a
from PEN America in 2017; Claudia Salazar
completing a PhD in Creative & Critical beautiful woman waits to be freed.
Jiménez’s Americas Prize–winning Blood of
Writing, focussing on the figure of the cat in But through her fevered confessions,
the Dawn, described in the New York Times
Japanese literature. one burning question haunts Frannie
Book Review as a ‘brave, breviloquent debut
novel’; and José Luis de Juan’s Napoleon’s Langton: could she have murdered the
Beekeeper. María José Ferrada’s How to only person she ever loved?
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Order the Universe is forthcoming from Tin from DublinCity Libraries/Public
House Books in early 2021. A haunting tale about one woman’s
Libraries Ireland.
fight to tell her story, The Confessions
of Frannie Langton leads you through
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from DublinCity Libraries/Public dark-as-night alleys, into the heart of
Libraries Ireland. Georgian London.
Sara Collins studied law at the London
School of Economics and worked as a
lawyer for seventeen years. In 2014 she
embarked upon the Creative Writing Masters
at Cambridge University, where she won the
2015 Michael Holroyd Prize of Re-creative
Writing and was shortlisted for the 2016
Lucy Cavendish Prize for a book inspired by
her love of gothic fiction. This turned into
her first novel, The Confessions of Frannie
Langton.
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Available to borrow as an eBook on His fourth novel, Sweetland, was also a Martin Michael Driessen is a Dutch opera
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Borrowbox from DublinCity finalist for the Governor General’s Literary and theatre director, translator, and writer.
Libraries/Public Libraries Ireland. Award. His most recent novel, The Innocents, He made his debut in 1999 with the novel
was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Gars, followed by Vader van God (Father of
Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction God, 2012) and Een ware held (A True Hero,
Prize and the Governor General’s Literary 2013), both of which were broadly reviewed
The Innocents Award. Michael Crummey lives in St. John’s, and nominated for literary prizes. In 2015
Michael Crummey Newfoundland. his novel Lizzie, written with the highly ac-
claimed and award-winning poet Liesbeth
Nominated by: Available to borrow as on Lagemaat, was published under the pseudo-
Ottawa Public Library, Canada Borrowbox from DublinCity nym Eva Wanjek. Rivieren (Rivers, 2016) was
Libraries/Public Libraries Ireland.
Newfoundland & Labrador Public awarded the prestigious ECI Literature Prize
Libraries, Canada (formerly the AKO), the Readers Prize, and
the Inktaap Prize, shortlisted for the Fintro
‘A brother and sister The Pelican: a comedy Literature Prize, and nominated for the
are orphaned in an Martin Michael Driessen Halewijn Prize. His latest novel, De pelikaan
isolated cove on (The Pelican, 2017), was shortlisted for the
Newfoundland’s Translated from the Dutch by Jonathan Libris Prize. His work has been translated
northern coastline. Reeder into English, Italian, German, Spanish, Slove-
Still children with nian, and Hungarian.
only the barest Nominated by:
notion of the Jonathan Reeder - a native of upstate New
Utrecht Public Library, Netherlands
outside world, they York and longtime resident of Amsterdam,
KB National Library of the Netherlands,
have nothing but I enjoy a dual career as a literary translator
the family’s boat and performing musician. Alongside my
In a quiet coastal
and the little knowledge passed on work as a professional bassoonist I translate
town in Yugoslavia,
haphazardly by their mother and father opera libretti and essays on classical music,
two men seeking
to keep them alive. as well as contemporary Dutch and Flemish
more than the
fiction and non-fiction. I am endorsed by
Communist regime
Still, they muddle through the severe Flanders Literature, the Dutch Foundation
can offer find their
round of the seasons, through years for Literature, and the Expertise Center for
lives deceitfully
of meagre catches and storms and Literary Translation.
entwined. Andrej
ravaging illness, their fierce loyalty to is a postman in
each other motivates and sustains them. complete denial
Available to borrow as on
But as seasons pass and they wade Borrowbox from DublinCity
of his existence. Libraries/Public Libraries Ireland.
deeper into the mystery of their own He yearns for respect and fame but
natures, even that loyalty will be tested. commits petty crimes for reasons he
doesn’t fully comprehend. Josip is
Richly imagined and compulsively an increasingly irrelevant cable car
readable, prizewinning author Michael operator and unfaithfully married. Life
Crummey’s The Innocents is a riveting was so much simpler when neither one
story of hardship and survival, and an knew the other’s secrets. Now that they
unflinching exploration of the bond do—discovered quite by accident—each
between brother and sister. By turns man has resorted to blackmailing the
electrifying and heartbreaking, it is a other. As their anonymous misdeeds
testament to the bounty and barbarity escalate, a farce of mutual dependency
of the world, to the wonders and begins. So does the unlikeliest of
strangeness of our individual selves. friendships when Andrej and Josip
finally meet face-to-face .
Michael Crummey is author of the memoir
Newfoundland: Journey into a Lost Nation; In a tale set against the impending
three books of poetry, including Arguments wars, Martin Michael Driessen ingen-
with Gravity, winner of the Writers’ Alliance iously explores the foibles of two pain-
of Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award fully ordinary men boldly staking their
for Poetry; and the short fiction collection claims on life.
Flesh & Blood. His first novel, River Thieves,
was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize,
and his second novel, The Wreckage, was a
was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust
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Catacombs Girl, Woman, Other The Other Name: Septology 1-11
Mary Anna Evans Bernardine Evaristo Jon Fosse
Nominated by: Nominated by: Translated from the Norwegian by Damion
Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Zentral-und Landesbibliothek Berlin, Searles
United States Germany
Waterford City & County Libraries, Nominated by:
What secrets lie Ireland Sфlvberget Library & Culture Centre,
deep beneath Norway
the surface? A This is Britain as
deafening explosion you’ve never read The Other Name
rocks a historic it.This is Britain as it follows the lives
Oklahoma City has never been told. of two men living
hotel, sending From Newcastle close to each other
archaeologist to Cornwall, from on the west coast
Faye Longchamp- the birth of the of Norway. The
Mantooth crashing twentieth century year is coming to
to the marble floor to the teens of a close and Asle,
of the lobby. She’s unhurt but shaken— the twenty-first, an aging painter
after all, any time something blows Girl, Woman, Other and widower,
up in Oklahoma City, the first word on follows a cast of twelve characters on is reminiscing
everyone’s lips is the same: bomb. their personal journeys through this about his life. He lives alone, his only
country and the last hundred years. friends being his neighbor, Åsleik, a
Faye is in town for a conference They’re each looking for something - a bachelor and traditional Norwegian
celebrating indigenous arts, but is shared past, an unexpected future, a fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist
soon distracted by the aftermath of place to call home, somewhere to fit in, who lives in Bjørgvin, a couple hours’
the explosion, which cracks open the a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, drive south of Dylgja, where he lives.
old hotel’s floor to reveal subterranean even just a touch of hope . . . There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle,
chambers that had housed Chinese also a painter. He and the narrator are
immigrants a century before. Faye is Bernardine Evaristo, MBE, is the award- doppelgangers—two versions of the
fascinated by the tunnels, which are winning author of eight books of fiction same person, two versions of the same
a time capsule back to the early 20th and verse fiction that explore aspects life.Written in hypnotic prose that shifts
century—but when the bodies of three of the African diaspora. Her novel Girl, between the first and third person,
children are discovered deep beneath Woman, Other made her the first black The Other Name calls into question
the city, her sense of discovery turns woman to win the Booker Prize in 2019, concrete notions around subjectivity
to one of dread…Winner of the 2020 as well winning the Fiction Book of the and the self. What makes us who we
Oklahoma Book Award. Year Award at the British Book Awards in are? And why do we lead one life and
2020, where she also won Author of the not another?
Mary Anna Evans is the author of the Faye Year, and the Indie Book Award. She also
Longchamp archaeological mysteries, which became the first woman of colour and Jon Fosse’s remarkably prolific career
have received recognition including the black British writer to reach No.1 in the began in 1983 with his first novel, Red,
Benjamin Franklin Award, the Mississippi UK paperback fiction chart in 2020. Her Black, and since then he has published
Author Award, and three Florida Book writing spans reviews, essays, drama and numerous novels, stories, books of poetry,
Awards bronze medals. She is an assistant radio, and she has edited and guest-edited children’s books, and essay collections. He
professor at the University of Oklahoma, national publications, including The Sunday began writing plays in 1993, with Someone
where she teaches fiction and nonfiction Time’s Style magazine. Her other awards Is Going to Come, and since the mid-
and honours include an MBE in 2009. nineties his plays have had unparalleled
Available to borrow on Borrowbox Bernardine is Professor of Creative Writing international success, being performed
from DublinCity Libraries/Public at Brunel University, London, and Vice Chair over a thousand times all over the world;
Libraries Ireland. of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives his works have been translated into more
in London with her husband. than fifty languages .Today, Fosse is one of
the most performed living playwrights, but
Available to borrow on Borrowbox he has continued to write novels, stories,
from DublinCity Libraries/Public and poetry of exceptional quality. In 2015
Libraries Ireland.
he received the Nordic Council Literature
Prize for his work Trilogy, consisting of
Wakefulness, Olav’s Dreams, and Weariness.
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Fosse has been awarded numerous prizes realities of growing up in today’s world; Through these stories – of unspoken
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both in Norway and abroad, and in recent Rafi, with his desperate attempt to help joy and regret, a secret tragedy kept
years he has often been mentioned as a someone in need; and Cinta, an old hidden, a fierce love that never found
frontrunner for the Nobel Prize in Literature. friend who provides the missing link in its voice – the life of one man will be
The three books that comprise his magnum the story they are all a part of. powerfully and poignantly laid bare.
opus, Septology, will be published by Transit Heart-breaking and heart-warming all
Books, beginning with The Other Name (tr. It is a journey which will upend at once, the voice of Maurice Hannigan
Damion Searls) in April 2020. everything he thought he knew about will stay with you long after all is said.
himself, about the Bengali legends
Damion Searls has translated several books of his childhood and about the world Anne Griffin’s first novel, When All is Said
and a libretto by Jon Fosse—Septology, around him. Gun Island is a beautifully was a Number One Irish bestseller in 2019
Melancholy (co-translated with Grethe realised novel which effortlessly and chosen as the Sunday Independent
Kvernes), Aliss at the Fire, Morning and spans space and time. It is the story Newcomer of the Year in the An Post Irish
Evening (novel and libretto), and Scenes of a world on the brink, of increasing Book Awards. It was also shortlisted for the
from a Childhood—and books by many other displacement and unstoppable John McGahern Annual Book and the RSL
classic modern writers, including Proust, transition. But it is also a story of hope, Christopher Bland prizes. She lives in Co.
Rilke, Nietzsche, Walser, Bachmann, Jelinek, of a man whose faith in the world Westmeath, Ireland.
Modiano, and Uwe Johnson. His own books and the future is restored by two
include What We Were Doing and Where remarkable women.
We Were Going, The Inkblots, and The
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and The Eighth Life: ( for Brilka )
grew up in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nino Haratischwili
Available to borrow on Borrowbox India. He studied at the universities of
from DublinCity Libraries/Public Delhi and Oxford, has taught at a number Translated from the German by Charlotte
Libraries Ireland. of institutions and written for many Collins and Ruth Martin
magazines. The first novel in the Ibis trilogy,
Sea of Poppies, was shortlisted for the Man Nominated by:
Booker Prize in 2008. In 2015, Amitav Ghosh Openbare Bibliotheek Brugge ( Bruges
was named as a finalist of the Man Booker Public Library ), Belgium
Gun Island
Amitav Ghosh International Prize.
That night Stasia
Nominated by: Biblioteca Nazionale Di took an oath,
Napoli Vittorio Emmanuele 111, Italy swearing to learn
When All Is Said the recipe by heart
Bundook. Gun. A Anne Griffin and destroy the
common word, but paper. And when
one which turns Nominated by: she was lying in
Deen Datta’s world Wojewódzka Biblioteka Publiczna im. her bed again,
upside down.A Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego w Łodzi, recalling the taste
dealer of rare books, Łódź, Poland with all her senses,
Deen is used to she was sure that
a quiet life spent I’m here to this secret recipe could heal wounds,
indoors, but as his remember – all that avert catastrophes, and bring people
once-solid beliefs I have been and all happiness. But she was wrong.’At the
begin to shift, he is that I will never be start of the twentieth century, on
forced to set out on an extraordinary again.’ the edge of the Russian Empire, a
journey; one that takes him from India family prospers. It owes its success to
to Los Angeles and Venice via a tangled At the bar of a a delicious chocolate recipe, passed
route through the memories and grand hotel in a down the generations with great
experiences of those he meets along small Irish town solemnity and caution. A caution
the way. sits 84-year-old which is justified: this is a recipe for
Maurice Hannigan. ecstasy : this is a recipe for ecstasy that
There is Piya, a fellow Bengali- He’s alone, as usual -though tonight carries a very bitter aftertaste …Stasia
American who sets his journey in is anything but. Pull up a stool and learns it from her Georgian father
motion; Tipu, an entrepreneurial young charge your glass, because Maurice is and takes it north, following her new
man who opens Deen’s eyes to the finally ready to tell his story. Over the husband, Simon, to his posting at the
course of this evening, he will raise centre of the Russian Revolution in St
five toasts to the five people who have Petersburg. Stasia’s is only the first in a
meant the most to him. symphony of grand but all too often
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doomed romances that swirl from This is a novel dominated by historical
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sweet to sour in this epic tale of the facts related to the war period
red century.Tumbling down the years, Beyond Yamashita and Percival interlaced with fictional events related
and across vast expanses of longing Shaari Isa to the life and the loves of the fictional
and loss, generation after generation characters during the war. It carries a
of this compelling family hears echoes Translated from the Malay by Shaari Isa
message about the meaninglessness
and sees reflections. of war; that pride of the victor is
Nominated by:
just temporary and trivial but the
Nino Haratischvili was born in Georgia in Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia, Malaysia human suffering caused by the war is
1983, and is an award-winning novelist, unfathomable and simply unforgivable.
playwright, and theatre director. At home This novel is
in two different worlds, each with their set against the Shaari Isa has equal love for academic
own language, she has been writing in background of the and creative writings. He began his career
both German and Georgian since the age Malay Peninsula and as a teacher and subsequently became a
of twelve. In 2010, her debut novel Juja Singapore during professional accountant and a university
was nominated for the German Book Prize, the Second World lecturer. His writings reflects his deep
as was her most recent Die Katze und der years of 1941 to concern for social order, clear thinking and
General in 2018. In its German edition, 1945. As implied human happiness. He lives in Kuala Lumpur.
The Eighth Life was a bestseller, and won from the title, is is
the Anna Seghers Prize, the Lessing Prize not merely a story
Stipend, and the Bertolt Brecht Prize 2018. about two generals,
It is being translated into many languages,
Tyll
Yamashita and Percival, but also the Daniel Kehlmann
and has already been a major bestseller on effect of their decisions upon the lives
publication in Holland, Poland, and Georgia. of people who were caught in the war Translated from the German by Ross
the British residents and the locals of Benjamin
Charlotte Collins studied English Literature diverse cultures.
at Cambridge University, and worked as
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an actor and radio journalist in Germany The novel focuses on the theme of Münchner Stadtbibliothek, Germany
and the UK before becoming a literary love and war. It discusses the frailties
translator. She received the Goethe- of human emotion that led to both. Stadtbibilothek Bremen, Germany
Institut’s Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s It portrays the lives of the various
Prize in 2017 for Robert Seethaler’s A Whole societies there at the time before, He’s a trickster, a
Life, which was also shortlisted for the during and after the outbreak of the player, a jester. His
Man Booker International Prize and the war: first the British, the elite society handshake’s like a
International Dublin Literary Award. Her during the colonial years with their pact with the devil,
other translations include Seethaler’s The comfortable life, quite ignorant of his smile like a
Tobacconist and The End of Loneliness by Japanese clandestine activities, which crack in the clouds;
Benedict Wells. were to have such a profound effect on he’s watching you
their lives soon after. Amidst all these now and he’s gone
Ruth Martin has a PhD in German literature the novel also portrays the love, illicit when you turn.
and philosophy from the University of and otherwise that inevitably grew out Tyll Ulenspiegel
London. Her recent translations include the events related to the war. is here!In a
Volker Weidermann’s Dreamers, Michael village like every other village in
Köhlmeier’s novels Two Gentlemen on the In addition, the novel also looks at Germany, a scrawny boy balances
Beach and Yiza, short fiction by Joseph other parts of the social environment, on a rope between two trees. He’s
Roth, and essays by Hannah Arendt. She has at the effects of the war on the local practising. He practises by the mill, by
taught translation to undergraduates at population: the Malays who saw the the blacksmiths; he practises in the
Birkbeck and the University of Kent, and is war as an opportunity to prepare forest at night, where the Cold Woman
currently co-chair of the Society of Authors themselves towards self-government whispers and goblins roam. When he
Translators Association. and independence; the Chinese who comes out, he will never be the same.
looked upon the Japanese as their Tyll will escape the ordinary villages.
Available to borrow on Borrowbox bitter enemies for invading their In the mines he will defy death. On
from DublinCity Libraries/Public homeland, China, and who must the battlefield he will run faster than
Libraries Ireland. opposed at all costs; the Indians who cannonballs. In the courts he will
were indifferent to all events around trick the heads of state. As a travelling
them; their main concern being to earn entertainer, his journey will take him
just enough for themselves and for across the land and into the heart of
their families back home in India. a never-ending war.A prince’s doomed
acceptance of the Bohemian throne
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has European armies lurching brutally The Frequencies, and a commendation from sadistic skill for undermining himself
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for dominion and now the Winter King the judges of the 2012 Schlegel-Tieck Prize and his marriage comes to cost him nearly
casts a sunless pall. for his translation of Thomas Pletzinger’s everything.
Funeral for a Dog (W.W. Norton & Company,
Between the quests of fat counts, 2011). His literary criticism has appeared in Herman Koch was born in 1953. He is the
witch-hunters and scheming queens, The Times Literary Supplement, Bookforum, author of a number of novels - including
Tyll dances his mocking fugue; The Nation, and other publications. He was The Dinner, Dear Mr. M and Summer House
exposing the folly of kings and a 2003–2004 Fulbright Scholar in Berlin with Swimming Pool - short stories, has
the wisdom of fools.With macabre and is a graduate of Vassar College. acted for radio, television, and film, and was
humour and moving humanity, Daniel a co-creator of the long-running Dutch TV
Kehlmann lifts this legend from comedy series Jiskefet (1990-2005). The
medieval German folklore and enters Dinner has sold over 2.5 million copies
him on the stage of the Thirty Years’ The Ditch worldwide and spent a year on the New
War. Herman Koch York Times bestseller list. Richard Gere,
Steve Coogan, Laura Linney, and Chloë
When citizens become the playthings Translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett
Sevigny also star in the film adaptation.
of politics and puppetry, Tyll, in his
demonic grace and his thirst for Nominated by:
Sam Garrett is the translator of some
freedom, is the very spirit of rebellion OBA-Amsterdam Public Library,
thirty novels and works of non-fiction. He
– a cork in water, a laugh in the dark, a Netherlands is the only translator to have twice won
hero for all time. the British Society of Authors’ Vondel Prize
When Robert for Dutch-English translation. In 2012,
Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich Walter, the his translation of The Dinner by Herman
in 1975 and lives in Vienna, Berlin and popular mayor of Koch spent two months on the New York
New York. He has published six novels: Amsterdam, sees Times bestseller list and became the most
Measuring the World, Me & Kaminski, his wife toss her popular Dutch novel ever translated into
Fame, F, You Should Have Left and Tyll and head back with English. His work has been shortlisted for
has won numerous prizes, including the laughter while the International IMPAC Dublin Literary
Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the chatting to one Award, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation
Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Doderer of his aldermen Award, the PEN Translation Prize and the
Prize, The Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature at a New Year’s Best Translated Book Award. He divides his
Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. reception, he time between Amsterdam and the French
Measuring the World was translated into immediately suspects she is cheating Pyrenees.
more than forty languages and is one of on him.
the biggest successes in post-war German Available to borrow on Borrowbox
literature. Though happily married, he has always from DublinCity Libraries/Public
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Ross Benjamin is a translator of German- in a distant country, chose him.Soon
language literature and a writer living in afterwards, a journalist unearths an
Nyack, New York.His translations include old photograph of a police officer While The Music Played
Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hyperion (Archipelago being beaten up by three Vietnam War Nathaniel Lande
Books, 2008), Kevin Vennemann’s Close to protesters, one of whom she claims is
Jedenew (Melville House, 2008), Joseph Robert. Just as unexpectedly, Robert’s Nominated by:
Roth’s Job (Archipelago, 2010), Clemens J. ninety-four-year-old father announces Katona József Library of Bács-Kiscun
Setz’s Indigo (Liveright/Norton, 2014), and that he and his wife would rather end County, Hungary
Daniel Kehlmann’s You Should Have Left their lives than burden their son with
(Pantheon, 2017) and Tyll (Pantheon, 2020). their deteriorating health. Beginning in 1939
prewar Prague,
He is currently at work on a translation Once stable and successful, Robert While the Music
of Franz Kafka’s complete Diaries, to be becomes entangled in his fears and Played focuses on
published by Schocken Books. He is a suspicions, consumed by jealousy and the story of young
2015 Guggenheim Fellow. His translation paranoia. Nothing is what it seems, or Max Mueller, a
of Tyll has been shortlisted for the 2020 is Robert finally beginning to see the curious bright
International Booker Prize. He was awarded world - and his life - as they are, for the romantic—a budding
the 2010 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s first time?Written with Herman Koch’s musician, piano
Prize for his rendering of Michael Maar’s trademark originality, playfulness and tuner, and nascent
Speak, Nabokov (Verso Books, 2009), a 2012 edge and translated from Dutch, The journalist. Max is on
National Endowment for the Arts Literature Ditch is a wildly clever - and guttingly the cusp of adolescence when the Nazi
Fellowship to translate Clemens J. Setz’s familiar - story of a man whose influence invades Prague’s tolerant
dublinliteraryaward.ie 8spirit with alarming speed as he and theory of the novel. He has given
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struggles to understand the changing talks at universities throughout Europe
world around him. When his father,
Until Stones Become Lighter as well as in China and contributed to
noted German conductor Viktor
Than Water the Philosophical Salon at the LA Review
Mueller, is conscripted into the German
António Lobo Antunes of Books. He has been awarded, among
army and finds himself increasingly others, the John E. Sawyer Fellowship at
Translated from the Portugese by Jeff Love
promoting the Nazi message, Viktor’s the National Humanities Center (2014-
best friend, noted Czech composer 2015), the University Research Scholarship
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Hans Krása, protests the occupation in and Artistic Achievement Award (2018)
Porto Public Libraries, Portugal
every way he can. at Clemson University and the Whiting
Fellowship in the Humanities (1997-1998)
As everyone Max loves is compromised Award-winning while at Yale University.
by intolerable conditions, he becomes author António
increasingly isolated, and is forced to Lobo Antunes
find his own way. With each step, Max’s returns to the
journey grows more conflicted. Music subject of the Lost Children Archive
is the one constant connecting him to Portuguese colonial Valeria Luiselli
both the lost childhood he cherishes war in Angola
and the man he still hopes to become. with a vigorous Nominated by:
But will it be enough to sustain him account of atrocity Biblioteca Vila de Gràcia, Spain
against the relentless Nazi threat? and vengeance.
Drawing on his In Valeria Luiselli’s
With a seamless blend of historical and own bitter experience as a soldier fiercely imaginative
fictional characters, told from multiple stationed for twenty-seven months in follow-up to the
points of view, and sweeping across the Angola, Lobo Antunes tells the story American Book
capitals of Prague, London, and Berlin of a young African boy who is brought Award-winning Tell
as World War II ravages Europe, this to Portugal by one of the soldiers who Me How It Ends, an
meticulously researched book is unique destroyed the child’s village, and of the artist couple set
with its diverse and interweaving boy’s subsequent brutal murder of this out with their two
narratives, threaded with news adoptive father figure at a ritual pig children on a road
accounts, and encompassing some of killing. trip from New York
the most triumphant and devastating to Arizona in the
moments of the war—from the opera Deftly framing the events through an heat of summer. As the family travels
houses of Berlin to the music halls of assembly of interwoven narratives west, the bonds between them begin to
London and the making of the famous and perspectives, this is one of fray: a fracture is growing between the
children’s opera Brundibár. Lobo Antunes’s most captivating parents, one the children can almost
and experimental books. It is also a feel beneath their feet.
Nathaniel Lande is a journalist, filmmaker, timely consideration of the lingering
and the author of twelve books, including wounds that remain from the conflict Through ephemera such as songs, maps
Cricket and Dispatches from the Front: A between European expansionism and and a Polaroid camera, the children try
History of the American War Correspondent. its colonized victims who were forced to make sense of both their family’s
A full listing of his works can be found at to accept the norms of a supposedly crisis and the larger one engulfing the
www.NathanielLande.com. He was creative supposedly superior culture. news: the stories of thousands of kids
director for the Magazine Group at Time, trying to cross the southwestern border
Inc.; director of Time World News Service; António Lobo Antunes is the author of into the United States but getting
director of Time-Life Films, where his more than thirty books, including Fado detained—or lost in the desert along
documentaries won over ten international Alexandrino, The Inquisitors’ Manual, and the way.
awards; and executive producer at CBS The Splendor of Portugal. He lives in
and NBC Television. Lande was educated Lisbon. A breath-taking feat of literary
at Oxford University; earned his doctorate virtuosity, Lost Children Archive is
at Trinity College Dublin, where he Jeff Love, Research Professor of German timely, compassionate, subtly hilarious,
was a Distinguished Scholar; and held and Russian at Clemson University, has and formally inventive—a powerful,
appointments as professor of journalism at published three monographs, edited two urgent story about what it is to be
the University of North Carolina at Chapel collections of articles and translated three human in an inhuman world.
Hill. He lives in Santa Barbara, California. books, two philosophical treatises, one
German, the other Russian, and a novel by Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and
Available to borrow on Borrowbox renowned Portuguese author António Lobo grew up in South Korea, South Africa and
from DublinCity Libraries/Public Antunes. Professor Love’s primary research India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction
Libraries Ireland. fields are German and Russian philosophy and nonfiction, she is the author of the
9 dublinliteraryaward.ieessay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces eventually raise him as one of their Available to borrow on Borrowbox
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in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; and, own. A circus performer who toured the from DublinCity Libraries/Public
most recently, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay world as a sideshow introduces the boy Libraries Ireland.
in Forty Questions. She is the winner of to showmanship and sanitation. And a
two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes and an chance encounter with an older woman
American Book Award, and has twice been exposes him to music and the sensuous
Auē
nominated for the National Book Critics pleasures of life. The boy becomes
Becky Manawatu
Circle Award and the Kirkus Prize. She has a guide whose innocence exposes
been a National Book Foundation “5 Under society’s wonder, brutality, absurdity,
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35” honoree and the recipient of a Bearing and magic.
Christchurch city Libraries, New Zealand
Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice
Auckland Libraries, New Zealand
Fund. Her work has appeared in The New Beginning in 1908 and spanning three
York Times, Granta, and McSweeney’s, among decades, The Boy is as an emotionally
Taukiri was born
other publications, and has been translated and historically rich exploration of
into sorrow. Auē
into more than twenty languages. She lives family, passion, and war from one
can be heard in the
in New York City. of France’s most acclaimed and
sound of the sea
bestselling authors.
he loves and hates,
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and in the music
from DublinCity Libraries/Public Marcus Malte was born in 1967 in
Libraries Ireland. he draws out of
Seyne-sur-Mer, a small harbor city in
the guitar that was
the south of France, along the coast of
his father’s. It spills
the Mediterranean Sea. As a child, Malte
out of the gang
immersed himself in literature, discovering
The Boy violence that killed
the novels of John Steinbeck, Albert Cohen,
Marcus Malte his father and sent his mother into
Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Jean Giono.
hiding, and the shame he feels about
He began writing in elementary school
Translated from the French by Emma abandoning his eight-year-old brother
and chose to major in film studies after
Ramadan and Tom Roberge to a violent home.
graduating from high school. At twenty-
three, Malte became a projectionist in
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Seyne-sur-Mer’s historical movie theater
Bibliothèque municipale de Colmar, he has a friend and his friend has a
and soon wrote his first short stories. Later
France dog, and the three of them together
in the 1990s he began reaching broader
might just be strong enough to turn
audience with a series of novels, a couple
The boy does not back the tide of sorrow. As long as
of hard-boiled detective stories where
speak. The boy has there’s aroha to give and stories to tell
Malte created the recurrent character of
no name. The boy, and a good supply of plasters.
Mister, a jazz pianist .Marcus Malte’s fiction
raised half-wild
includes Garden of Love his first real
in the forests of Becky Manawatu (Ngāi Tahu) was born in
success (rewarded with a dozen literary
southern France, Nelson, raised in Waimangaroa and has
prizes, including the Grand Prix of the
sets out alone into returned there to live with her family,
readers of Elle, police category, 2007) Les
the wilderness and working as a reporter for The News in
Harmoniques (Prix Mystère de la Critique,
the greater world Westport. Becky’s short story ‘Abalone’ was
2012) and more recently Le Garçon (The
beyond. Without long-listed for the 2018 Commonwealth
Boy) for which he received the famous Prix
experience of Short Story Prize, her essay ‘Mothers Day’
Femina (2016). The Boy is his first novel to
another person aside from his mother, was selected for the Landfall anthology
be translated into English.
the boy must learn what it is to be Strong Words. Auē is her first novel.
human, to exist among people, and to
Emma Ramadan is a literary translator
live beyond simple survival.
based in Providence, RI, where she is the
co-owner of Riffraff, a bookstore and bar.
As this wild and naive child attempts
She is the recipient of an NEA Translation
to join civilization, he encounters
Fellowship, a PEN/Heim grant, and a
earthquakes and car crashes, ogres
Fulbright scholarship.
and artists, and, eventually, all-
encompassing love and an inescapable
Tom Roberge is co-owner of Riffraff
war. His adventures take him around
bookstore and bar in Providence, Rhode
the world and through history on
Island. He learned French as a Peace Corps
a mesmerizing journey, rich with
volunteer in Madagascar and was formerly
unforgettable characters. A hamlet of
the Deputy Director of Albertine Books, a
farmers fears he’s a werewolf, but
French language bookstore in New York.
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The Glass Hotel Apeirogon Hurricane Season
Emily St. John Mandel Colum McCann Fernanda Melchor
Nominated by: Nominated by: Translated from the Spanish by Sophie
Limerick City and County Library, South Dublin Libraries, Ireland Hughes
Ireland
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Vincent is the Rami Elhanan and Winnipeg Public Library, Canada
beautiful bartender Bassam Aramin live
Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegs, Mexico
at the Hotel near one another
Caiette, a five-star – yet they exist Los Angeles Public Library, United
glass-and-cedar worlds apart. Rami States
palace on the is Israeli. Bassam is
northernmost tip of Palestinian. Rami’s The Witch is dead.
Vancouver Island. license plate is And the discovery
New York financier yellow. Bassam’s of her corpse—by a
Jonathan Alkaitis license plate is group of children
owns the hotel. green. It takes Rami playing near the
When he passes Vincent his card with fifteen minutes to drive to the West irrigation canals—
a tip, it’s the beginning of their life Bank. The same journey for Bassam propels the whole
together. takes an hour and a half. village into an
investigation of
That same day, a hooded figure Both men have lost their daughters. how and why this
scrawls a note on the windowed Rami’s thirteen-year-old girl Smadar murder occurred.
wall of the hotel: ‘Why don’t you was killed by a suicide bomber Rumors and suspicions spread. As the
swallow broken glass.’ Leon Prevant, while out shopping with her friends. novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic
a shipping executive for a company Bassam’s ten-year-old daughter Abir torrent, with each unreliable narrator
called Neptune-Avramidis, sees the was shot and killed by a member of lingering details, new acts of depravity
note from the hotel bar and is shaken the border police outside her school. or brutality, Melchor extracts some
to his core. Thirteen years later, just There was a candy bracelet in her tiny shred of humanity from these
after a massive Ponzi scheme implodes pocket she hadn’t had time to eat yet. characters that most would write off as
in New York, Vincent mysteriously The men become the best of friends. utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting
disappears from the deck of a portrait of a damned Mexican village.
Neptune-Avramidis ship. In this epic novel – named for a shape
with a countably infinite number Fernanda Melchor, born in Veracruz, Mexico,
Weaving together the lives of these of sides – Colum McCann crosses in 1982,is widely recognized as one of
characters, Emily St. John Mandel’s The centuries and continents, stitching the most exciting new voices of Mexican
Glass Hotel moves between the ship, time, art, history, nature and politics literature. Her novel Hurricane Season
the towers of Manhattan, and the into a tapestry of friendship, love, loss and collection This Is Not Miami are both
wilderness of remote British Columbia, and belonging. Musical, muscular, forthcoming from New Directions..
painting a breathtaking picture of delicate and soaring, Apeirogon is the
greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, novel for our times. Sophie Hughes is a literary translator
art and the ghosts of our pasts. from Spanish, known for her translations
Colum McCann, originally from Dublin, of writers such as Laia Jufresa, Rodrigo
Emily St. John Mandel was born in Canada Ireland, is the author of six novels and two Hasbún, Fernanda Melchor and José
and studied dance at The School of Toronto collections of stories. His most recent novel, Revueltas. In 2019 she was shortlisted for
Dance Theatre. Her novels are Last Night the New York Times bestseller Let the the Man Booker International Prize for her
in Montreal, The Singer’s Gun, The Lola Great World Spin, won the National Book translation of Alia Trabucco Zerán’s The
Quartet, Station Eleven and The Glass Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Remainder.
Hotel. She lives in New York City with her Literary Award and several other major
husband and daughter. international awards. His fiction has been
published in thirty-five languages. He lives
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11 dublinliteraryaward.ieHeather Morris is a native of New Zealand,
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now resident in Australia. For several years,
The Silent Patient Cilka’s Journey while working in a large public hospital
Alex Michaelides Heather Morris in Melbourne, she studied and wrote
screenplays, one of which was optioned by
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an Academy Award-winning screenwriter in
Veria Central Public Library, Greece State Library Victoria, Australia
the US.
In 2003, Heather was introduced to an
Alicia Berenson’s In 1942 Cilka
elderly gentleman who ‘might just have a
life is seemingly is just sixteen
story worth telling’. The day she met Lale
perfect. A years old when
Sokolov changed both their lives, as their
famous painter she is taken to
friendship grew and he embarked on a
married to an in- Auschwitz-Birkenau
journey on self-scrutiny, entrusting the
demand fashion Concentration
innermost details of his life during the
photographer, Camp. The
Holocaust to her. Heather originally wrote
she lives in a Commandant
Lale’s story as a screenplay – which ranked
grand house with at Birkenau,
high in international competitions – before
big windows Schwarzhuber,
reshaping it into her debut novel, The
overlooking a park notices her long
Tattooist of Auschwitz.
in one of London’s most desirable beautiful hair, and forces her separation
areas. from the other women prisoners.
Cilka learns quickly that power, even Available to borrow on Borrowbox
unwillingly given, equals survival. from DublinCity Libraries/Public
One evening her husband Gabriel
Libraries Ireland.
returns home late from a fashion
shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times After liberation, Cilka is charged
in the face, and then never speaks as a collaborator for sleeping with
another word.Alicia’s refusal to talk, or the enemy and sent to a desolate,
Dark Mother Earth
give any kind of explanation, turns a brutal prison camp in Siberia known
Kristian Novak
domestic tragedy into something far as Vorkuta, inside the Arctic Circle.
grander, a mystery that captures the Innocent and imprisoned once again,
Translated from the Croatian by Ellen
public imagination and casts Alicia Cilka faces challenges both new and
Elias-Bursac
into notoriety. The price of her art horribly familiar. When she makes an
skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, impression on a female doctor, Cilka
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is hidden away from the tabloids and is taken under her wing and begins to
Gradska knjižnica Rijeka, Croatia
spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic tend to the ill in the camp, struggling
unit in North London. to care for them under unimaginable
An amnesiac
conditions.
writer’s life of
Theo Faber is a criminal
lies and false
psychotherapist who has waited a Cilka finds endless resources within
memories reaches
long time for the opportunity to work herself as she confronts death and
a breaking point
with Alicia. His determination to get faces terror, each day a battle for
in this stunning
her to talk and unravel the mystery of survival. And when she nurses a man
English-language
why she shot her husband takes him called Aleksandr, Cilka finds that
debut from an
down a twisting path into his own despite everything that has happened
award-winning
motivations—a search for the truth that to her, there is room in her heart for
Croatian author. As
threatens to consume him. love.
a novelist, Matija
makes things up for a living. Not yet
Alex Michaelides was born in Cyprus to Based on what is known of Cilka’s time
thirty, he’s written two well-received
a Greek-Cypriot father and an English in Auschwitz, and on the experience
books. It’s his third that is as big a
mother. He studied English literature at of women in Siberian prison camps,
failure as his private life. Unable to
Cambridge University and got his MA Cilka’s Journey is the breathtaking
confine his fabrications to fiction, he’s
in screenwriting at the American Film sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz. A
been abandoned by his girlfriend over
Institute in Los Angeles. He is the author powerful testament to triumph of the
his lies. But all Matija has is invention.
of the international bestseller The Silent human will in adversity, Cilka’s Journey
Especially when it comes to his
Patient. will make you weep, but it will also
childhood and the death of his father.
leave you with the remarkable story of
Whatever happened to Matija as a
one woman’s fierce determination to
young boy, he can’t remember. He feels
survive, against all odds.
rightened, angry, and responsible…
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