Losing my mind trying to predict a football competition with books 📚⚽🏆| Group stages of Euros 2024

Gang! That thing I have been threatening all year is finally upon us: part one of my attempt to predict the winner of the Euros 2024 football competition using the books that I've read from the competing countries.

Full list of books below! Who do you think is going to win?

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Albania: The Traitor's Niche - Ismael Kadare (trans. John Bullock)
Austria: Beware of Pity - Stefan Zweig (trans. Anthea Bell)
Belgium: I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman (trans. Ros Schwartz)
Croatia: We Trade Our Night for Someone Else's Day - Ivana Bodrožić (trans. Ellen Elias-Bursać)
Czechia: The Engineer of Human Souls - Josef Skvorecky (trans. Pauline Wilson)
Denmark: The Employees - Olga Ravn (trans. Martin Aitken)
England: The Call - Edith Ayrton Zangwill
France: The Birthday Party - Laurent Mauvignier (trans. Daniel Levin Becker)
Georgia: The Pear Field - Nana Ekvitmishvili (trans. Elizabeth Heighway)
Germany: Dance by the Canal - Kerstin Hensel (trans. Jen Calleja)
Hungary: The World Goes On - Laszlo Krasznahorkai (trans. Ottilie Mulzet & George Szirtes)
Italy: The Girl at the Door - Veronia Raimo (trans. Stash Luczkiw)
Netherlands: The Book of Strange New Things - Michel Faber
Poland: Swimming in the Dark - Tomasz Jedrowski
Portugal: Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water - Antonio Lobo Antunes (trans. Jeff Love)
Romania: The Passport - Herta Müller (trans. Martin Chalmers)
Scotland: Poor Things - Alasdair Gray
Serbia: The Attic - Danilo Kiš (trans. John K Cox)
Slovakia: Rivers of Babylon - Peter Pist'anek (trans. Peter Petro)
Slovenia: Blind Man - Mitja Čander (trans. Rawley Grau)
Spain: The Book of All Loves - Agustin Fernandez Mallo (trans. Thomas Bunstead)
Switzerland: Homo Faber - Max Frisch (trans. Michael Bullock)
Türkiye: At the Breakfast Table - Defne Suman (trans. Betsy Göksel)
Ukraine: Nadezhda in the Dark - Yelena Moskovich

00:00:00 - the rules!
00:04:51 - Group A
00:14:44 - Group B
00:23:18 - Group C
00:30:58 - Group D
00:39:28 - Group E
00:49:09 - Group F

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