#Dublin Literary Award shortlist 2019

Shortlisted books: 3/10

WINNER !!

• Idaho by Emily Ruskovich –  SHORTLIST (family epic, rugged Idaho)
• American author Emily Ruskovich has won the prestigious 2019 International Dublin Literary Award for her debut novel Idaho.
• The €100,000 prize is the world’s largest prize for a single novel published in English and Emily is the fourth American author to win the prize in 24 years.

 

 

SHORTLIST  2019

• My special choice Go, Went Gone is NOT shortlisted, why? (review Reese)

Shortlist:   3/10 ( not wasting my time on 5 selected books, sorry)

 

 

UPDATE:

• Reservoir 13 J. McGregor – READ (English village,missing girl…review Lisa)
• Home Fire –  Kamila Shamsie – READ – (immigrants…review Brona)
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid – NOT reading – (review Lisa and Brona)
  
• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders – READ   (review Brona)
• Midwinter Break –  Bernard MacLaverty– READ    (review Brona)
  
• Compass by M. Énard – NOT reading –  Prix Goncourt 2015  (review Reese)
  
• Idaho by Emily Ruskovich – WINNER  (family epic, rugged Idaho)
• A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert – NOT reading  (WWII, review Lisa)
• History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund – NOT reading – review Lisa)
• Conversations With Friends – S. Rooney  NOT reading –  (…had enough of Rooney)
  

 

MY SHORTLIST  …books I think should have been shortlisted

• Brother by David Chariandy –  (Powerful, bold and timely, Canadian)
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by G. Honeyman – (review Reese)
  
• The Hate U Give by A. Thomas –  (..must read this, NYT Bestseller YA novel))
• Tin Man by Sarah Winman – (review Lisa)
  

 

UPDATE: 04.04.2019

Dutch/Belgian longlist….that I will read:

1. Monte Carlo – Peter Terrin (Belgian) – READ
   
2. The Consequences – Nina Weijers (Dutch) –READ (…review soon)
   
3. Tench – Inge Schilperoord (Dutch)…about paedophile…not reading it!