The Adversary by Michael Crummey (published by Doubleday and Vintage in the U.S.) won the €100,000 (about $113,610) Dublin Literary Award, which is sponsored by Dublin City Council to recognize a single work of international fiction, whether originally written in English or translated into it. The announcement was made as part of the International Literature Festival Dublin. Nominations are chosen by librarians and readers from a network of libraries around the world.
The jury commented: "Michael Crummey's The Adversary compellingly and convincingly immerses its readers in a world previously lost to fiction, and almost lost to memory: a Newfoundland outport from the early years of the colony, connected to the world outside only by the occasional supply ship."