Michael Crummey's THE ADVERSARY wins the 2025 Dublin Literary Award

A massive congratulations to Michael Crummey on winning the Dublin Literary Award with THE ADVERSARY!!! 🥳💙

The award received its nominations from public libraries around the world, with THE ADVERSARY being nominated by Newfoundland and Labrador libraries.

From the award judging panel: “Michael Crummey’s The Adversary compellingly and convincingly immerses its readers in a world previously lost to fiction, and almost lost to memory: a Newfoundland outport from the early years of the colony, connected to the world outside only by the occasional supply ship.

In this vividly imagined, insular world, the narrative is driven by the animosity between two characters – a brother and sister – whose epic hatred for one another gives the novel an almost parable-like quality. Their enmity powers this subtle, darkly powerful tale narrated in poetic language. The Adversary lastingly fills in a hitherto blank corner on our map of imagined past places.”