Brazilian writers Itamar Vieira Júnior and Stênio Gardel and Mozambican Mia Couto are among the authors of 70 books nominated for the Dublin Literary Prize, announced today.
Itamar Vieira Júnior is nominated with Johnny Lorenz’s translation of “Torto Arado”, the debut novel by the Salvador da Bahia author, which with it won the Leya Prize in 2018, the Oceanos Prize in 2020 and the Jabuti Prize in 2022, in the category of Brazilian Book Published Abroad. The work was nominated by the Porto Municipal Library.
Stênio Gardel is nominated with Bruna Dantas Lobato’s translation of “The Word That Remains”, a Jabuti finalist and unprecedented winner of a National Book Award in the United States in the translation category. The nomination for the Dublin prize was made by the Maria da Conceição Moreira Sales Demonstration Library in Brasilia.
Mozambican Mia Couto has been shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Prize with David Brookshaw’s English translation of “The Horizon Drinker”, the third book in the trilogy “The Emperor’s Sands”, the French edition of which won him the Jan Michalski prize. Mia Couto’s work was nominated by the National Library of Mozambique.
