Akhil Sharma wins the Dublin Literary Award

Family Life has won Akhil Sharma the Dublin Literary Award.
The prize, worth €100,000 – the world's largest prize for a single novel published in English – went to the American writer ahead of Man Booker Prize winner Marlon James (A Brief History Of Seven Killings) and Marilynne Robinson, whose nominated work Lila was part of the series of novels that already scooped her a Pulitzer Prize.
Irish hopes were represented by Mary Costello, whose debut novel Academy Street was the only homegrown effort on the shortlist.
Two other American authors – Dave Eggers for Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?, and Jenny Offill for Dept of Speculation – were in the running, along with writers from Spain (Outlaws, Javier Cercas), Germany (The End of Days, Jenny Erpenbeck), Brazil (Diary of the Fall, Michel Laub) and Rwanda (Our Lady of the Nile, Scholastique Mukasonga).
The winning novel is just the second full-length effort from Sharma, following An Obedient Father in 2000. More than 13 years in the making, there's now 100,000 more reasons why it was worth it!