Eight Irish novels among 156 nominees for 2020 International Dublin Literary Award

Eight novels from Ireland are among 156 books nominated by libraries around the world for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award. The €100,000 award is the world’s most valuable prize for a single work of fiction published in English.

Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke, the two latest winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, are among those nominated by libraries from 40 countries in Africa, Europe, Asia, the US and Canada, South America, Australia and New Zealand. The book that received most nominations is There There by Native American debut author Tommy Orange.