Michael Crummey is one of six writers shortlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award.

This year marks the 30th for the €100,000 prize, which is worth about $147,000. The shortlisted titles were chosen from a 71-title longlist announced in January. Crummey, who is shortlisted for his novel The Adversary (Knopf Canada/PRHC), was one of six Canadian writers on the longlist.

The selections for this year’s prize were made by a jury composed of Dutch author Gerbrand Bakker; Irish author and columnist Martina Devlin; Paris-based writer, poet, translator, musician, and editor Fiona Sze-Lorrain; professor and freelance literary journalist Leonard Cassuto; and poet and editor Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe.

The Adversary is joined on the shortlist by Percival Everett’s National Book Award-winning James, Paul Lynch’s Booker-winning Prophet Song, Selva Almada’s Not a River, translated by Annie McDermott, Gerda Blees’s We Are Light, translated by Michele Hutchison, and Daniel Mason’s North Woods. The shortlist was announced on March 25.

The winner will be announced during the International Literature Festival Dublin on May 22.