Congratulations to the ten authors shortlisted for this year’s International Dublin Literary Award.

This diverse shortlist features books from Brazil, Rwanda, Jamaica, Spain, Germany, Ireland and the USA. Authors includes former winners of the Man Booker Prize and Pulitzer Prize, as well as two debut novelists.

• Outlaws by Javier Cercas (translated by Anne McLean)
• Academy Street by Mary Costello
• Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? by Dave Eggers
• The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck (translated by Susan Bernofsky)
• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
• Diary of the Fall by Michel Laub (translated by Margaret Jull Costa)
• Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga (translated by Melanie Mauthner)
• Dept of Speculation by Jenny Offill
• Lila by Marilynne Robinson
• Family Life by Akhil Sharma

Find out more about the International Dublin Literary Award here.