International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 10 April 2024 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
The shortlist for the 2024 International Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$95,600), has been announced.
The titles in the running for this year’s prize, chosen from a longlist of 13 announced in March, are:
- Crooked Plow (Itamar Vieira Junior, trans by Johnny Lorenz, Verso)
- The Details (Ia Genberg, trans by Kira Josefsson, Wildfire Books)
- Kairos (Jenny Erpenbeck, trans by Michael Hofmann, Granta)
- Mater 2–10 (Hwang Sok-yong, trans by Sora Kim-Russell & Youngjae Josephine Bae, Scribe)
- Not a River (Selva Almada, trans by Annie McDermott, Charco Press)
- What I’d Rather Not Think About (Jente Posthuma, trans by Sarah Timmer Harvey, Scribe).
The winning title will be announced at a ceremony on 21 May.
The International Booker Prize is awarded to a book translated into English. The prize money is shared equally between the winning writer and translator, and each shortlisted writer and translator also receives £2500 (A$4780) each.
The winner of the 2023 prize was Time Shelter (Georgi Gospodinov, trans by Angela Rodel, Weidenfeld & Nicolson).
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