Kruso by Lutz Seiler, and A Vineyard in Andalusia by María Dueñas have been long listed for the International DUBLIN Literary Award 2019.
Books are nominated on the basis of ‘high literary merit’. Nominations for The International DUBLIN Literary Award are submitted by library systems in major cities throughout the world, which makes the Award unique in its coverage of international fiction. The shortlist will be released on the 4 April 2019, and the winner will be announced on 12 June 2019.
Kruso follows a young literature student named Ed travels to the Baltic island of Hiddensee, a notorious destination for hippies, idealists, and those at odds with the East German state. On Hiddensee, Ed joins the community of seasonal workers, led by the charismatic, enigmatic Kruso. As the wave of history washes over the German Democratic Republic, the friends’ grip on reality loosens and life on the island will never be the same.
In A Vineyard in Andalusia, the year is 1861, and a ruined silver-mine owner sets sail from Mexico City to seek his fortune in the New World. Mauro Larrera has just four months to pay his creditors, or his bankruptcy will be revealed and his family’s honour will be in tatters. In magnificent Havana — home to beautiful women and dangerous men who deal in mysterious trades — he gambles what little he has left on what will become the greatest adventure of his life.
Congratulations to Lutz and María!
