THE LIBRARY

Throughout the years, the Dublin Literary Award has seen over 1400 books from authors around the world nominated. Here, you can browse the virtual shelves by title, author, prize year and more. You might just discover your new favourite book.

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JUDGES

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Aamer Hussein

Aamer Hussein was born in 1955 in Karachi, Pakistan. He has lived in London since..

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Abdourahman Waberi

Abdourahman Waberi is a major writer from the African nation of Djibouti. An essayist, novelist,..

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Agnès Desarthe

Agnès Desarthe is the author of nine novels for adults in her native French, many..

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Al Young

Albert James Young was an American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and professor. He was named..

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Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel OC FRSL is an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor, and a former..

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Alicia Borinsky

Alicia Borinsky, is a US-based Argentine novelist, poet and literary critic. Alicia Borinsky is professor..
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Allen Weinstein (non-voting chair)

Allen Weinstein was a college professor, historian, author, and international envoy. From 1985 to 2003,..

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Almeida Faria

Almelda Faria was born in Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal in 1943. A fiction writer playwright and essayist,..

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Alvin Pang

Alvin PANG, PhD is a poet, writer, editor, anthologist, translator and researcher whose broad creative..

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Amit Chaudhuri

Born in Calcutta, India, in 1962, Amit Chaudhuri was brought up in Bombay. He graduated..

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Amritjit Singh

Amritjit Singh is professor of English at Rhode Island College and coeditor of Postcolonial Theory and the..

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Anatoly Kudryavitsky

Anatoly (Anthony) Kudryavitsky was born in 1954 in Moscow of a Polish father and half-Irish..

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André Brink

One of South Africa’s most distinguished writers, André Brink was born in 1935. Poet, novelist,..

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Andrew O’Hagan

Andrew O’Hagan was born in 1968 in Glasgow. In 1995 he wrote THE MISSING and..

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Anita Desai

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Anne Fine

Anne Fine has written highly acclaimed novels for adults and is also one of Britain’s..

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Anton Hur

Anton Hur is the author of Toward Eternity and No One Told Me Not To…

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Arunava Sinha

“I’d just like to say that even after more than four decades of reading, it..

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Audrey Thomas

Audrey Thomas was born in Binghamton, New York, and emigrated to Canada in 1959. She..

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Bodil Malmsten

Bodil Malmsten was a Swedish poet and novelist. Malmsten was born in Bjärme, Östersund Municipality…
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