Four Canadian authors are among the 69 writers nominated for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award.

The annual €100,000 prize, worth about $162,000, honours excellence in world literature. Titles are nominated by public libraries from around the world.

Maria Reva’s debut novel Endling, published by Knopf Canada/Penguin Random House Canada, was nominated by the Ottawa Public Library.

Kyle Edwards’s Small Ceremonies, published by McClelland & Stewart/PRHC, was nominated by the Winnipeg Public Library.

Éric Chacour’s What I Know About You, translated by Pablo Strauss and published by Coach House Books, was nominated by the Bibliothèque de Québec and the Toronto Public Library.

Elizabeth Murphy’s The Weather Diviner, published by Breakwater Books, was nominated by the Newfoundland & Labrador Public Libraries.

These writers are joined on the list by international literary heavyweights including Sally Rooney, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ali Smith, and Haruki Murakami. The 69 books nominated for this year’s award were nominated by 80 libraries in 36 countries.

This year, for the first time, the judges will select a longlist of up to 20 titles, which will be announced on Feb. 17. A six-book shortlist will be announced on April 7.

All four Canadian titles nominated for this year’s prize are no strangers to awards lists: Endling won the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize last week, while Small Ceremonies was named the winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction earlier this month. What I Know About You was shortlisted for the 2024 Dayne Ogilvie Prize, the 2024 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the 2024 Giller Prize, and won multiple awards in its original French edition. The Weather Diviner was longlisted for the 2024 BMO Winterset Award.

Last year, Canadian author Michael Crummey won the Dublin Literary Award for his novel The Adversary, published in Canada by Knopf Canada.

Correction, Nov. 20: This story has been updated from the original to include Elizabeth Murphy.