Haven Shortlisted For Dublin Literary Award

26 March 2024

The shortlist for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award has been announced, with Emma Donoghue's Haven included. The Dublin Literary Award promotes excellence in world literature and is solely sponsored by Dublin City Council. Further information on this title is available below.

Haven by Emma Donoghue
Published in large print in February 2023.
In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks - young Trian and old Cormac - he travels down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. Their extraordinary landing spot is now known as Skellig Michael. But in such a place, far from all other humanity, what will survival mean?