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title: "International Dublin Literary Award 2016"
description: "I'm in Dublin and yesterday the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award longlist was announced. Here's how it looks by the numbers: 160 books 10 of them Canadian 118 cities 44 countries 19 languages..."
url: https://somisguided.com/2015/11/10/international-dublin-literary-award-2016/
date: 2015-11-10
modified: 2015-11-10
author: "Monique"
type: post
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# International Dublin Literary Award 2016

I’m in Dublin and yesterday the 2016 (http://www.dublinliteraryaward.ie/) longlist was announced. Here’s how it looks by the numbers:

160 books

10 of them Canadian

118 cities

44 countries

19 languages

6 judges

1 winner

The Canadian titles are (alphabetically by author last name):

- *Sweetland* by Michael Crummey

- *Outline* by Rachel Cusk

- *The Back of the Turtle* by Thomas King

- *Us Conductors* by Sean Michaels

- *The Girl Who Was Saturday Night* by Heather O’Neill

- *Station Eleven* by Emily St. John Mandel

- *Who by Fire* by Fred Stenson

- *All My Puny Sorrows* by Miriam Toews

- *Will Starling* by Ian Weir

- *The Lobster Kings* by Alexi Zentner

[!(https://somisguided.com/wp-content/uploads/Weir.jpg)](http://www.somisguided.com/index.php/weblog/comments/book-review-will-starling-by-ian-weir/)

Ian Weir is on the Vancouver Sun Book Club with me and (http://www.somisguided.com/index.php/weblog/comments/book-review-will-starling-by-ian-weir/) around this time last year.

If you’re new to this award, here are some interesting tidbits. Libraries in Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Ottawa, Saint John, St. John’s Sydney, Toronto and Winnipeg were among those that nominated books for the 2016 award.

Two Canadians have won the prize, the late Alistair MacLeod for *No Great Mischief* in 2002 and Rawi Hage for *De Niro’s Game* in 2008.

The International DUBLIN Literary Award was formerly known as the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Watch for this hashtag #DubLitAward

The book that received most nominations this year is Anthony Doerr’s *All The Light We Cannot See*, chosen by 14 libraries in Canada, Germany, Greece, Ireland, The Netherlands and the USA.

[!(https://somisguided.com/wp-content/uploads/all-the-light.jpg)](http://www.somisguided.com/index.php/weblog/comments/2-cookbooks-2-novels/)

[*All the Light We Cannot See* was one of my favourite titles last year.](http://www.somisguided.com/index.php/weblog/comments/2-cookbooks-2-novels/)

The shortlist will be published on 12th April 2016 and the winner announced on 9th June.