The longlist for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award (formerly IMPAC Dublin) has been announced, and it’s full of outstanding work by WWB contributors! We’re especially excited to see Carmen Boullosa’s Texas: The Great Theft, translated by WWB founding editor Samantha Schnee. We ran an excerpt from the book before its publication by Dallas-based Deep Vellum Publishers in 2014. (Above, Samantha and Carmen at our tenth-anniversary gala in 2013.)

The Dublin list reflects what an international panel of libraries and librarians considers to be the best literature published in English in 2014. Here are the other very deserving nominees WWB has published.

Nominated for their writing:
Andrés Neuman
Assaf Gavron
Hamid Ismailov
Helle Helle
Javier Cercas
Jenny Erpenbeck
Juli Zeh
Kader Abdolah
Olga Grjasnowa
Per Petterson
Peter Fröberg Idling
Rodrigo Rey Rosa

Nominated for their translations:
Alison Entrekin
Andrew Bromfield
Anne McLean
Antony Shugaar
Chris Andrews
Daniel Hahn
David Colmer
Don Bartlett
Eva Bacon
Howard Curtis
Ina Rilke
Linda Coverdale
Mara Faye Lethem and Margaret Jull Costa (each nominated for two translations!)
Michael F. Moore
Nick Caistor
Philip Gabriel
Ros Schwarz
Sam Garrett
Shaun Whiteside
Susan Bernofsky
Tim Moh
​Will Firth

The late Carol Brown Janeway, our 2014 Ottaway Award honoree, is also nominated for her translation of Daniel Kehlmann’s F.

See the full longlist here.