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Man Booker International Prize
The Man Booker International Prize has announced a long list
13.03.2024
The Man Booker International Prize has announced a long list of works that will be nominated for the award in 2024.
- The Silver Bone (written by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk);
- Simpatía (written by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, translated by Noel Hernández GonzálezDaniel Hahn);
- Not a River (written by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott);
- Undiscovered (written by Gabriela Wiener, translated by Julia Sanches);
- White Nights (written by Urszula Honek, translated by Kate Webster);
- Mater 2-10 (written by Hwang Sok-yong, translated by Sora Kim-RussellYoungjae Josephine Bae);
- What I’d Rather Not Think About (written by Jente Posthuma, translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey);
- Crooked Plow (written by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated by Johnny Lorenz);
- The House on Via Gemito (written by Domenico Starnone, Translated by Oonagh Stransky);
- Lost on Me (written by Veronica Raimo, Translated by Leah Janeczko);
- A Dictator Calls (written by Ismail Kadare, Translated by John Hodgson);
- Kairos (written by Jenny Erpenbeck, Translated by Michael Hofmann);
- The Details (written by Ia Genberg, Translated by Kira Josefsson).
The 13 books on the longlist have been chosen by the 2024 judging panel: broadcaster and journalist Eleanor Wachtel as chair; award-winning poet Natalie Diaz; internationally acclaimed novelist Romesh Gunesekera; groundbreaking visual artist William Kentridge; and writer, editor, and translator Aaron Robertson.
Their selection was made from 149 books published between May 1, 2023, and April 30, 2024, and submitted by publishers – the highest number since the prize was relaunched in its current format in 2016. 2024’s submissions were made up of books originally written in 32 languages, up from 27 in 2023. Since 2016, books representing 63 languages have been submitted for the prize, ranging from Farsi and Vietnamese to Kikuyu and Welsh.
The shortlist of six books will be announced on April 9, 2024. The winning title will be announced at a ceremony on May 21, 2024, which will be livestreamed.
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