Congratulations to Ingrid Storholmen, whose novel HERE LAY TIRPITZ has been longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2025. Presented annually, the Award is one of the most significant literature prizes in the world, worth €100,000 for a single work of fiction in original English or translated into English. Previous winners include Mircea Cartarescu, Alice Zeniter, Valeria Luiselli, Colm Toibin and Per Petterson.

Among the 71 nominees on the longlist, there are also big names like David Diop, Percival Everett, Lucas Rijneveld, Ia Genberg, Paul Lynch, Don Winslow and Selva Almada.

A shortlist will be announced 25 March.

The nomination jury on HERE LAY TIRPITZ:

“In this stunning novel, acclaimed Norwegian poet Ingrid Storholmen resurrects the lives, trials and dreams of the men on board the largest ship during the World War II called Tirpitz-and that of their wives, lovers, family and the local Norwegians who encountered the ship-with profound immediacy and grace. Through monologues, conversations and letters Storholmen traces the personal journeys of those caught in the war. Here Lay Tirpitz is an immersive chorus of voices waiting for life to begin, or death. It shows us the beauty, vulnerability-and ugliness-of men and women, in a world overrun by hatred and power.”