News 2026 Dublin Literary Award Judges Announced

We’re delighted to announce the Judging panel for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award.

Dublin City Council today announced the judging panel for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award, the world’s largest prize for a single novel published in English.

The international panel of judges for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award features Xiaolu Guo, an award-winning novelist and film director who has published a dozen books with Random House; Daniel Mulhall, a former Irish Ambassador to Malaysia, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States who has lectured and published extensively on Irish history and literature; Clara Ministral, who studied translation and comparative literature in Madrid and London and has been translating fiction and non-fiction from English to Spanish for over fifteen years; Dike Chukwumerije, a performance poet, spoken word theatre practitioner, author, public speaker and cultural administrator; and Disha Bose, an author whose novel Dirty Laundry was an Irish Times bestseller, a Good Morning America Book Club pick and the inaugural An Post Book Club selection.

The non-voting chairperson is Professor Chris Morash, the Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing at Trinity College Dublin, who has led the judging process since 2019. Commenting on the experience of being a Dublin Literary Award judge, Professor Morash states, “The sense of being led into a world of words brings with it a sense of wonder of which I never tire.”