Watch 2024 Dublin Literary Award Winners in Conversation
Published on 10th June 2024
Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu and translated by Sean Cotter is the winner of the 2024 Dublin Literary Award.
Watch Mircea Cărtărescu and Sean Cotter in conversation about the novel, with Alex Clark.
Recorded at the International Literature Festival Dublin on Friday 24 May 2024.
Copies of the winning title are available to borrow or reserve from Dublin City Libraries. Readers can also borrow the winning novel on BorrowBox.
Further details about the Award and the winning novel are available on the Award website at www.dublinliteraryaward.ie
Mircea Cărtărescu is a writer, professor, and journalist who has published more than twenty-five books. His work has received the Formentor Prize (2018), the Thomas Mann Prize (2018), the Austrian State Prize for Literature (2015), and the Vilenica Prize (2011), among many others. His work has been translated in twenty-three languages. His novel Blinding was published by Archipelago in Sean Cotter's English translation.
Sean Cotter is a translator and professor of literature and translation at the University of Texas at Dallas. A previous National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, Cotter is the translator of 11 books, including T.O. Bobe’s Curl and Nichita Stănescu’s Wheel with a Single Spoke and Other Poems, which was awarded the Best Translated Book Award for Poetry. His translation of Magda Cârneci's FEM, a finalist for the PEN Translation Award, was published by Deep Vellum in 2021.
Nominated by ”Octavian Goga” Cluj County Library in Romania, the winning novel was chosen from a shortlist of six novels by writers from Canada, Ireland, Australia and the United States.
Winner Mircea Cărtărescu commented that “Winning the Dublin Literary Award is one of the most significant achievements in my whole literary career, and a great honour for me. It shows an increase in my image as a writer in the English-speaking world after the publication of Solenoid, my breakthrough novel. I am grateful to the jury who chose my book from so many other wonderful ones.”
American translator, Sean Cotter said “The Dublin Literary Award awards translators alongside authors, a choice as unusual as it is necessary. I am honored to be recognized with as great an author as Mircea, from as great a literature as the Romanian, and I hold in my heart the community of Romanian translators, all those who translate the world's smaller literatures, all those who translate.”