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The longlist for the 2024 International Booker Prize has been introduced! This prize acknowledges excellent novels and brief story collections translated to English and printed within the UK and/or Ireland. There are 13 books on the longlist, which the Booker Prize says “speak of courage and kindness, of the vital importance of community, and of the effects of standing up to tyranny.”
The successful ebook shall be awarded £50,000, break up between the writer and translator(s). Shortlisted books obtain £5,000. The shortlist of six books shall be introduced April ninth, and the winner shall be introduced May twenty first.
The longlist contains books initially printed in Albanian, Dutch, German, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish, with 1 / 4 of the books by South American authors.
Chair of the International Booker Prize Eleanor Wachtel, on the longlisted titles:
“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.”
2024 International Booker Prize Longlist
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
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