Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, the novel was translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
The International Dublin Literary Award comes with a EUR 100,000 prize sponsored by the Dublin City Council.
If the prize-winning book has been translated, the author receives EUR 75,000 and the translator gets EUR 25,000.
Tokarczuk’s book, one of 10 on the shortlist, is competing with those by writers from Ireland, Britain, Iran, Canada, the United States, France, and India.
In 2019, Tokarczuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming the 15th woman to receive the distinction since 1901.
A year earlier, she won the Man Booker International Prize for her novel Flights.
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