The six novels for the International Booker Prize shortlist for this year have been announced.
This year’s shortlist includes six books from six different countries and six different languages. They are from three different continents, highlighting human experiences from all over the world.
“Novels carry us to places where we might never set foot and connect us with new sensations and memories,” said Eleanor Wachtel, one of the judges of the International Booker Prize 2024 Chair. “Our shortlist opens onto vast geographies of the mind, often showing lives lived against the backdrop of history or, more precisely, interweaving the intimate and the political in radically original ways.”
The winners will be announces on May 21. can see the full list of the novels shortlisted below!
International Booker Prize Shortlist 2024
- Not a River by Selva Almada, translated from Spanish by Annie McDermott
- Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from German by Michael Hofmann
- Crooked Plow by Itamar Viera Junior, translated from Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz
- Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, translated from Korean by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae
- What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, translated from Dutch by Sarah Timmer Harvey
- The Details by la Genberg, translated from Swedish by Kira Josefsson
Conclusion
These are the six books that have been shortlisted. How many of these novels have you heard of or read? Let us know in the comments below! Tune in on May 21 to find out the winners!
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