Worth €100,000, the award is sponsored by Dublin City Council and is the biggest prize ever given for a single English-language novel published worldwide.

The prize money in this instance is split, with Mr. Cărtărescu taking home €75,000 and Mr. Cotter taking home €25,000.

Based on the author's personal teaching experiences, Solenoid is set in actual Romania in the late 1970s and early 1980s, during the Communist era.

The novel, which combines autobiography and fiction, was praised as one of the greatest novels of 2022 by publications like The New Yorker and the Financial Times.

Presenting it were Dublin City Librarian Ms. Mairead Owens and Lord Mayor of Dublin and prize patron Mr. Daithí de Róiste.

“Winning the Dublin Literary Award is one of the most significant achievements in my whole literary career and a great honour for me,” stated Mircea Cărtărescu, the winning author.

After being nominated by 80 libraries across 35 countries, Solenoid was chosen from a shortlist of six works that had originally been on the longlist of 70 titles.

Four Irish authors' novels were included in the 70 books that made up the 2024 shortlist for the prize.

The foursome consisted of Sebastian Barry's Old God's Time, Joseph O'Connor's My Father's House, Claire Kilroy's Soldier, Sailor, and Emma Donoghue's Haven.