Maija Mäkelä has released two albums under the name Maija Sofia; Bath Time, which was nominated for the Choice Music Prize, and True Love. She has toured extensively, both on her own and as support for artists including Sharon Van Etten, Julian Baker and Mega Bog. She also composes music for film and sound-art installations in collaboration with visual artists. Her poetry has appeared in The Stinging Fly, Banshee, Poetry Ireland Review, Berlin Lit and elsewhere, and she writes essays a...| International Literature Festival Dublin
“Exile Economics is a smart, vivid and humane account of the way the world really works – and thedangers that now face us all.” Tim Harford, How to Make the World Add Up| International Literature Festival Dublin
“With survival comes a duty: to tell the story. But also with it comes an inability to ultimately comprehend why you survived and others didn’t.” Atef Abu Saif| International Literature Festival Dublin
The world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction, the Dublin Literary Award is open to all novelists writing in, or translated into, English. Unique in its nomination process, titles are nominated each year by public libraries in major cities across the world, making it a true reader’s accolade. The 2025 Longlist featured 71 books nominated by 83 libraries from 34 countries around the world. This year, the 30th winner of the Dublin Literary Award will be announced by it...| International Literature Festival Dublin
We’re proud to welcome Roxane Gay, trailblazing US writer, cultural critic, and commentator back to ILFD. Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle issues affecting contemporary society with radical honesty. Her new anthology, Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business has an all-new introduction in which she reflects on the past decade in America. She sees this “age of inelasticity” as ...| International Literature Festival Dublin
“To read Solnit is to brush up against emotions and intuitions you almost don’t recognize, because language is so seldom considered the best way to approach them.” The New Yorker| International Literature Festival Dublin
