The 2024 award season is just around the corner. And now the International Booker Prize Longlist 2024 has been announced.
This international award celebrates novels and short story collections that are translated to English and published in the UK and/or Ireland. 13 books made the longlist and these books ““speak of courage and kindness, of the vital importance of community, and of the effects of standing up to tyranny,” said Brooker Prize.
The Chair of the International Booker Prize Eleanor Wachtel had this to say about the longlist:
“From a protest on the top of a factory chimney in South Korea to a transformative fishing trip in remote Argentina, from the violent streets of Kyiv in 1919 to a devastating sexual relationship in 1980s East Berlin, our longlisted books offer stunning evocations of place and time. Here are voices that reflect original angles of observation. In compelling, at times lyrical modes of expression, they tell stories that give us insight into — among other things — the ways political power drives our lives.”
You can see the full list below!
International Booker Prize Longlist 2024
- The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk
- Simpatía by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, translated by Noel Hernández González and Daniel Hahn
- Not a River by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott
- Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener, translated by Julia Sanches
- White Nights by Urszula Honek, translated by Kate Webster
- Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, translated by Sora Kim-Russell Youngjae and Josephine Bae
- What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey
- Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated by Johnny Lorenz
- The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone, translated by Oonagh Stransky
- Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo, translated by Leah Janeczko
- A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare, translated by John Hodgson
- Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann
- The Details by Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson
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