
My Anne Bonny novel, Seaborne, is nominated for the Dublin Literary Award! Thanks to the fab crew at Bruges Library for the nomination. Congrats to all my fellow listees, which includes books by Irish writers Colm Tóibín, Paul Lynch, Colin Barrett, John Boyne, Sinéad Gleeson, and Orla Owen.
The Dublin Literary Award honours excellence in world literature since 1996. Presented annually, the Award is one of the most significant literature prizes in the world, worth €100,000 for a single work of fiction in original English or translated into English. If the winning book is in English translation, the author receives €75,000 and the translator, €25,000. Each year, a longlist is created of nominated books from invited public libraries in cities around the world. A panel narrows these titles down to a shortlist of no more than ten titles. From this shortlist, one winner is selected and announced in a ceremony during the International Literature Festival Dublin. Since 2015, the Award has been sponsored solely by Dublin City Council, administered by Dublin City Libraries and supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature.

