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The International Booker Prize has revealed its 2024 shortlist comprising six books ‘that interweave the intimate and political in radically original ways’.
The International Booker 2024 shortlist features six books namely: Not a River by Selva Almada, translated from Spanish by Annie McDermott; Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from German by Michael Hofmann; The Details by Ia Genberg, translated from Swedish by Kira Josefsson; 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; and Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated from Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz.
“Novels carry us to places where we might never set foot and connect us with new sensations and memories,” said Eleanor Wachtel, International Booker Prize 2024 Chair of judges in a statement.
“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 six shortlisted books have been chosen by this year’s judging panel, “chaired by esteemed writer and broadcaster Eleanor Wachtel. She is joined by award-winning poet Natalie Diaz; Booker Prize shortlisted novelist Romesh Gunesekera; ground-breaking visual artist William Kentridge; and writer, editor and translator Aaron Robertson,” the website noted
The final six books have been selected from 149 books that have been published in the United Kingdom and/or Ireland between May 1, 2023 and April 30, 2024.
The prize recognises the vital work of translators with the £50,000 prize money divided equally: £25,000 for the author and £25,000 for the translator (or divided equally between multiple translators). In addition, there is a prize of £5,000 for each of the shortlisted titles: £2,500 for the author and £2,500 for the translator (or divided equally between multiple translators).
The International Booker Prize 2024 ceremony will take place from 7 pm BST (11.30 pm IST) on May 21.
