Ali Smith has been announced as winner of the 2026 Dublin Literary Award for her novel Gliff.

The chair of the judges said 'It's a novel that makes us really think about our future and where we are going, and the kind of decisions we make, and yet it’s also a story told through the eyes of a child and it’s a novel that features a horse... and how bonding with an animal can give you ways to find meaning in a world that seems to be losing it.'

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