International Booker 2024 shortlist announced

The International Booker 2024 shortlist features six books –

1. Not a River by Selva Almada (translated from Spanish by Annie McDermott)

2. Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck (translated from German by Michael Hofmann)

3. The Details by Ia Genberg (translated from Swedish by Kira Josefsson)

4. Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong (translated from Korean by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae)

5. What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma (translated from Dutch by Sarah Timmer Harvey)

6. Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior (translated from Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz)

The academy in their website announces, “It features work from six countries, translated from six languages, and interweaves the intimate and political in radically original ways”

This year’s judging panel includes esteemed writer and broadcaster Eleanor Wachtel, noted poet Natalie Diaz, Booker Prize nominee Romesh Gunesekera, visual artist William Kentridge and noted writer and translator Aaron Robertson.

The International Booker Prize 2024 considered a total of 149 books published in the UK and/or Ireland between May 1, 2023 and April 30, 2024 and submitted by the publishers.

This year’s versatile shortlist was chosen from a longlist of 13 titles. Other nominated titles were The Silver Bone, Simpatía, Undiscovered, White Nights, The House on Via Gemito, Lost on Me and A Dictator Calls.

The International Booker Prize 2024 ceremony will take place on 21 May at London’s Tate Modern.

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