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The 29-strong list for the world's richest short story award includes five Irish authors - Nuala Ní ChonChúir, Philip Ó Ceallaigh, Bernard MacLaverty, Emma Donoghue and William Wall.

The prize is worth €35,000. It was established during Cork's year as European capital of culture in 2005 to honour Cork's renowned short story writer, Frank O'Connor.

The longlist also includes internationally established writers like Rose Tremain, Alan Bennett, Helen Simpson and Segun Afolabi.

The winner of 2005's inaugural award was Chinese writer Yiyun Li for her debut collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.

A shortlist will be announced in July and the award will be presented during the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Festival in September.

Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award Longlist
In Strange Gardens & Other Stories by Peter Stamm (Swiss German) translated by Michael Hoffmann
Publisher: Other Press, NY

The Darkness of Wallis Simpson by Rose Tremain ( UK)
Publisher: Chatto, London

To The World of Men Welcome by Nuala Ní ChonChúir (Irish)
Publisher: Arlen House ( Galway)

The Good Works of Ayela Linde by Charlotte Forbes (US)
Publisher: Arcade Publishing, NY

The Unfinished Novel & Other Stories by Valerie Martin ( UK)
Publisher: Weidenfeld, London

I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train by Peter Hobbs ( UK)
Publisher: Faber, London

A Life Elsewhere by Segun Afolabi (Nigerian)
Publisher: Chatto, London

Notes from A Turkish Whorehouse by Philip Ó Ceallaigh (Irish)
Publisher: Penguin, Dublin

Gallatin Canyon by Thomas McGuane (US)
Publisher: Harvill Secker, London

Constitutional by Helen Simpson ( UK)
Publisher: Chatto, London

Joyce's Pupil by Drago Jancar ( Slovenia) translated by Various
Publisher: Brandon, Dingle

Matters of Life & Death by Bernard MacLaverty (Irish)
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London

Is This the Way You Said by Adam Thorpe ( UK)
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London

The Magician's Beautiful Assistant and Other Stories by Rachel Wyatt ( Canada)
Publisher: Hedgerow, Sidney British Columbia

The First Hurt by Rachel Sherman (US)
Publisher: Open City Books, NY

Drowning in Gruel by George Singleton ( US)
Publisher: Harcourt, Orlando

Year of Fire by David H Lynn (US)
Publisher: Harcourt, Orlando

Touchy Subjects by Emma Donoghue ( Ireland)
Publisher: Harcourt, Orlando

Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg (US)
Publisher: FSG, NY

Untold Stories by Alan Bennett ( UK)
Publisher: FSG, NY

No Paradiso by William Wall ( Ireland)
Publisher: Brandon, Dingle

Kafka in Bronteland and other Stories by Tamar Yellin ( UK)
Publisher: Toby Press, London

Invisible Islands by Angus Peter Campbell ( UK)
Publisher: Otago, Glasgow

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami ( Japan) translated by Gabriel & Rubin
Publisher: Harvill Secker, London

The Young Apollo and Other Stories by Louis Auchincloss (US)
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, NY

The Royal Ghosts by Samrat Upadhyay (US)
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, NY

Between Here and the Yellow Sea by Nic Pizzolatto ( US)
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage, San Francisco

The Unsettling by Peter Rock (US)
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage, San Francisco

Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead by Alan DeNiro (US)
Publisher: Small Beer Press

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