The longlist for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award was released on January 14. It features 71 books nominated by 83 libraries from 34 countries around the world. Sponsored by Dublin City Council, the €100,000 award is the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction published in English. The complete longlist is here.

Works of genre interest include:

• A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke
• Audition by Pip Adam
• Fishing for the Little Pike/ Summer Fishing in Lapland by Juhani Karila
• Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
• The Family Experiment by John Marrs
• The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
• The Future by Catherine Leroux

The international panel of Judges features Gerbrand Bakker, Dutch author and winner of the Dublin Literary Award in 2010; Martina Devlin, award winning Irish author and newspaper columnist; Fiona Sze-Lorrain, writer, poet, translator, musician and editor based in Paris; Leonard Cassuto, professor of American literature at Fordham University, freelance literary journalist, columnist, editor and author; and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe, poet, pacifist and editor based in Dublin. The non-voting Chairperson is Professor Chris Morash, the Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing at Trinity College Dublin.

The shortlist will be announced on March 25 and the winner will be announced by the Lord Mayor of Dublin Emma Blain on May 22.