Thursday, 14 September 2017

2017 International Dublin Literary Award

Winner  
A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa
   
Shortlist  
Confessions of the Lioness    by Mia Couto
The Green Road by Anne Enright
The Prophets of Eternal Fjord    by Kim Leine
The Story of My Teeth    by Valeria Luiselli
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
A Strangeness in my Mind by Orhan Pamuk
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
   
Longlist  
Woman of the Dead    by Bernhard Aichner
The Automobile Club of Egypt    by Alaa Al Aswany
Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis
The Japanese Lover    by Isabel Allende
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
Dry Season    by Gabriela Babnik
My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises    by Fredrik Backman
The Blue Guitar by John Banville
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Inside the Black Horse by Ray Berard
The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney
Sweet Caress by William Boyd
The Harder They Come by TC Boyle
Clade by James Bradley
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
The Weather Changed, Summer Came and So On by Pedro Carmona-Alvarez
Out in the Open    by Jesus Carrasco
Forever Young by Steven Carroll
It I Fall, If I Die by Michael Christie
The Birthday Lunch by Joan Clark
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
Coming Rain by Stephen Daisley
The Meursault Investigation     by Kamel Daoud
Ancestral Affairs by Keki N Daruwalla
The Devil You Know by Elisabeth de Mariaffi
The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev
Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt
Hollow Heart    by Viola Di Grado
The Heat by Garry Disher
Against Nature    by Tomas Espedal
Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
The Mirror World of Melody Black by Gavin Extence
Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
The Pope’s Daughter    by Dario Fo
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
Hope Farm by Peggy Frew
Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale
The Little Paris Bookshop    by Nina George
Craving    by Esther Gerritsen
Gliding Flight    by Anne-Gine Goemans
The Physics of Sorrow    by Georgi Gospodinov
Best Boy by Eli Gottlieb
Chappy by Patricia Grace
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Silent Room by Mari Hannah
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham
One Minute to Midnight by Diyar Harraz
Dictator by Robert Harris
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
This Place Holds No Fear    by Monika Held
The Making of Zombie Wars by Aleksandar Hemon
The Illegal by Lawrence Hill
Submission    by Michel Houellebecq
Black River by SM Hulse
The Evening Chorus by Helen Humphreys
Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson
Day Boy by Trent Jamieson
The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin
Where All Light Tends To Go by David Joy
The World Without Us by Mireille Juchau
Man on Fire by Stephen Kelman
The African Equation    by Yasmina Khadra
The Helios Disaster    by Linda Boström Knausgård
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
Imperium by Christian Kracht
The Festival of Insignificance    by Milan Kundera
Fortunate Slaves by Tom Lanoye
The Great Swindle by Pierre Lemaitre
Birdie by Tracey Lindberg
Bits of Heaven by Aishah Madadiy
Don’t Forget to Remember by Sonia Mael
The Offering by Grace McCleen
The Antipodeans by Greg McGee
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
Slade House by David Mitchell
A Reunion of Ghosts by Judith Claire Mitchell
The Legend of Winstone Blackhat by Tanya Moir
The Promise Seed by Cass Moriarty
Signs for Lost Children by Sarah Moss
Till Kingdom Come    by Andrej Nikolaidis
Girl at War by Sara Novic
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien
Miss Emily by Nuala O'Connor
The Illuminations by Andrew O'Hagan
Orhan’s Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian
When The Doves Disappeared    by Sofi Oksanen
Asking for It by Louise O'Neill
The Horn of Love    by Bozin Pavlovski
The Lost Child by Caryl Phillips
A Measure of Light by Beth Powning
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
Above the Waterfall by Ron Rash
You Have Me to Love    by Jaap Robben
Feast of the Innocents    by Evelio Rosero
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
The Kindness by Polly Samson
The Mystics of Mile End by Sigal Samuel
Ghachar Ghochar    by Vivek Shanbhag
The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
Yo-yo    by Steinunn Sigurðardóttir
The English Spy by Daniel Silva
The Chimes by Anna Smaill
Jane Smiley by Jane Smiley
Before the Feast    by Saša Stanišić
The Winter War    by Philip Teir
Duke by Sara Tilley
The Last Flight of Poxl West by Daniel Torday
Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar
The Orange Grove    by Larry Tremblay
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
The Jaguar’s Children by John Vaillant
Aquarium by David Vann
The Discreet Hero    by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Illogic of Kassel    by Enrique Vila-Matas
Yugoslavia, My Fatherland    by Goran Vojnović
The Dying Grass by William T Vollmann
Ledger of the Open Hand by Leslie Vryenhoek
My Sunshine Away by MO Walsh
Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
These Are The Names    by Tommy Wieringa
The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
Weathering by Lucy Wood
Eighty Days of Sunlight by Robert Yune

Monday, 11 September 2017

Desmond Elliott Prize

2018
Longlist
The Clocks in the House All Tell Different Times by Xan Brooks
How to be Human by Paula Cocozza
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Seven Days Of Us by Francesca Hornak
Peculiar Ground by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
How Saints Die by Carmen Marcus
One Star Awake by Andrew Meehan
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
We That Are Young by Preti Taneja

2017
Winner
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford

Shortlist
Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal

Longlist
Little Deaths by Emma Flint
Montpelier Parade by Karl Geary
The Transition by Luke Kennard
The Sacred Combe by Thomas Maloney
Ithaca by Alan McMonagle
They Are Trying to Break Your Heart by David Savill
Forbidden Line by Paul Stanbridge

2016
Winner
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney

Shortlist
Mrs Engels by Gavin McCrea
The House at the Edge of the World by Julia Rochester

Longlist
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
The Honours by Tim Clare
The Butcher's Hook by Janet Ellis
Things We Have In Common by Tasha Kavanagh
Disclaimer by Renée Knight
The Weightless World by Anthony Trevelyan

2015
Winner
Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller

Shortlist
A Song for Issy Bradley by Carys Bray
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey

Longlist
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
Glass by Alex Christofi
Randall by Jonathan Gibbs
The A-Z of You and Me by James Hannah
The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth
The Bees by Laline Paull
Chop Chop by Simon Wroe

2014
Winner
A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride

Shortlist
The Letter Bearer by Robert Allison
Ballistics by DW Wilson

Longlist
Idiopathy by Sam Byers
Meeting the English by Kate Clanchy
The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
Sedition by Katharine Grant
The Dynamite Room by Jason Hewitt
The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
Marriage Material by Sathnam Sanghera

2013
Winner
The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber

Shortlist
The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan

Longlist
The Palace of Curiosities by Rosie Garland
Petite Mort by Beatrice Hitchman
The Fields by Kevin Maher
Signs of Life by Anna Raverat
Seldom Seen by Sarah Ridgard
Jammy Dodger by Kevin Smith
The Painted Bridge by Wendy Wallace

2012
Winner
The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen

Shortlist
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness

Longlist
The Missing Shade of Blue by Jennie Erdal
Absolution by Patrick Flanery
The Spider King's Daughter by Chibundu Onuzo
Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson
Bed by David Whitehouse
Care of Wooden Floors by Will Wiles
The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood

2011
Winner
Saraswati Park by Anjali Joseph

Shortlist
Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman

Longlist
The Afterparty by Leo Benedictus
The Spider Truces by Tom Connolly
Who is Mr Satoshi? by Jonathan Lee
A Vision of Loveliness by Louise Levene
Pub Walks in Underhill Country by Nat Segnit
Coconut Unlimited by Nikesh Shukla
The Collaborator by Mirza Waheed

2010
Winner
The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw

Shortlist
Before the Earthquake by Maria Allen
Talk of the Town by Jacob Polley

Longlist
The Upright Piano Player by David Abbott
The Hungry Ghosts by Anne Berry
Rupture by Simon Lelic
The Shadow of a Smile by Kachi A Ozumba
The Breaking of Eggs by Jim Powell
Designs for a Happy Home by Matthew Reynolds
Beauty by Raphael Selbourne

2009
Winner
Blackmoor by Edward Hogan

Shortlist
A Girl Made of Dust by Nathalie Abi-Ezzi
The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn

Longlist
The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams
Girl In A Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
Mr Toppit by Charles Elton
Never Never by David Gaffney
The Redemption of Alexander Seaton by Shona MacLean
Little Gods by Anna Richards
The Alternative Hero by Tim Thornton

2008
Winner
Gifted by Nikita Lalwani

Shortlist
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Sunday at the Cross Bones by John Walsh

Longlist
Broken by Daniel Clay
Submarine by Joe Dunthorne
The Truth About These Strange Times by Adam Foulds
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Kill Your Friends by John Niven
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
Random Acts Of Heroic Love by Danny Scheinmann 
The Messenger Of Athens by Anne Zouroudi

Friday, 8 September 2017

Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book

2011
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
A Man Melting by Craig Cliff

Africa Regional Winner
Happiness is a Four-Letter Word by Cynthia Jele

Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Bird Eat Bird by Katrina Best

Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
Sabra Zoo by Mischa Hiller

2010
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
Siddon Rock by Glenda Guest

Africa Regional Winner
I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Under This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell

Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin

2009
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif

Africa Regional Winner
Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan

Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Reading by Lightning by Joan Thomas

South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
The Year of the Shanghai Shark by Mo Zhi Hong

2008
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam

Africa Regional Winner
Imagine This by Sade Adeniran

Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
The End of the Alphabet by CS Richardson

South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
The Anatomy of Wings by Karen Foxlee

2007
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Vandal Love by DY Béchard

Africa Regional Winner
All We Have Left Unsaid by Maxine Case

Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
In The Country of Men by Hisham Matar

South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
Tuvalu by Andrew O'Connor

2006
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Suspended Sentences: Fictions of Atonement by Mark McWatt

Africa Regional Winner
Tropical Fish: Stories Out of Entebbe by Doreen Baingana

Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
Lazy Eye by Donna Daley-Clarke

South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw

2005
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Africa Regional Winner
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis

Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa

South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
Home by Larissa Behrendt

2004
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

Africa Regional Winner
Gardening at Night by Diane Awerbuck

Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen by Kate Taylor

South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
Somewhere, Home by Nada Awar Jarrar

2003
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
Haweswater by Sarah Hall

Africa Regional Winner
Waiting for an Angel by Helon Habila

Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
The Scent of a Lie by Paulo da Costa

South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka

2002
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Africa Regional Winner
Ama by Manu Herbstein

Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Martin Sloane by Michael Redhill

Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
The 18th Pale Descendant by William Muir

South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
In the Blue House by Meaghan Delahunt

2001
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Africa Regional Winner
Thirteen Cents by K Sello Duiker

Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Burning Ground by Pearl Luke

South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
The Company by Arabella Edge

2000
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain by Jeffrey Moore

Africa Regional Winner
The Legend of the Rockhills and Other Stories by Funso Aiyejina

Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha

South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
Reconnaissance by Kapka Kassabova

1999
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
The Electrical Field by Kerri Sakamoto

Africa Regional Winner
The Clothes of Nakedness by Benjamin Kwakye

Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur

South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
In a Fishbone Church by Catherine Chidgey

1998
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Angel Falls by Tim Wynveen

Africa Regional Winner
Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter by Pamela Jooste

Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
When Memory Dies by Ambalavaner Sivanandan

South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
Deadset by Emma Tom

1997
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald

Africa Regional Winner
At the Edge and other Cato Manor Stories by Ronnie Govender

Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
Interesting Facts about the State of Arizona by Jeremy Poolman

South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel

1996
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra

Africa Regional Winner
Winds of Change by Dene Coetzee

Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Icefields by Thomas Wharton

South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
Dead Sea Fruit by Charlotte Randall

1995
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
Seasonal Adjustments by Adib Khan

Africa Regional Winner
The River and the Source by Margaret A Ogola

Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Chorus of Mushrooms by Hiromi Goto

Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
Newton's Niece by Derek Beaven

1994
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
The Case of Emily V by Keith Oatley

Africa Regional Winner
Cry a Whisper by Lucy Safo

Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
The Roads are Down by Vanessa Spence

South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
The Mule's Foal by Forini Epanomitis

1993
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
The Thousand Faces of Night by Githa Hariharan

Africa Regional Winner
The Price of Liberty by Paul Conton

Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Satellite City by Alecia McKenzie

South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
Praise by Andrew McGahan

1992
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Divina Trace by Robert Antoni

Africa Regional Winner
Grief Child by Lawrence Darmani

Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
A Strange and Sublime Address by Amit Chaudhuri

South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
The Word Burners by Beryl Fletcher

1991
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Shape Shifter by Pauline Melville

Africa Regional Winner
Our Wife and Other Stories by Karen King-Aribisala

Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis de Bernières

South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
The Story of the Year of 1912 in the Village of Elza Darzins by Thea Welsh

1990
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
Visitors by John Cranna

Africa Regional Winner
The Gunny Sack by MG Vassanji

Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Bone Bird by Darlene Barry Quaife

Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
Myself and Marco Polo by Paul Griffiths

1989
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Women of Influence by Bonnie Burnard

Africa Regional Winner
None

Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
The Trotter-Nama by Allan Sealy

South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
Ride a Cock Horse by Gillian Mears