The shortlist for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award was released on March 25. 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. 

Only one of the seven works of genre interest on the longlist made it to the finals – Prophet Song by Paul Lynch. (James Bacon reviewed the book when it won the 2023 Booker Prize.)

Here are all the shortlisted titles:

• Not a River – Selva Almada (translated by Annie McDermott)
• We Are Light – Gerda Blees (translated by Michele Hutchison)
• The Adversary – Michael Crummey
• James – Percival Everett
• Prophet Song – Paul Lynch
• North Woods – Daniel Mason

The winner will be revealed by the Lord Mayor of Dublin on May 22, as part of International Literature Festival Dublin.