![]() The thirty-three-year-old’s debut novel was put forward for the prize by just one library: a branch in Bruges, Belgium. Idaho was chosen from a total of 141 nominated novels, nominated by libraries in 115 cities across forty-one countries in Africa, Europe, Asia, the United States and Canada, South America and Australia and New Zealand. Ruskovich is the fourth American author to win the prize in its twenty-four-year history. Three African authors were nominated for the award, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Zinzi Clemmons and Omar El Akkad, but none made the ten-book shortlist. The award, worth €100,000 (about R1.65 million) and awarded annually to ‘a single work of fiction published in English’, is organised by Dublin City Council in Ireland, with nominations being submitted by library systems in major cities throughout the world. ![]() ![]() American author Emily Ruskovich has won the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award, known as ‘the world’s richest annual literary prize’, for her novel Idaho. ![]()
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