The International Booker Prize 2024 Shortlist Announcement | The Booker Prize

We are delighted to reveal the #InternationalBooker2024 shortlist, featuring six books ‘that interweave the intimate and political in radically original ways’.

➡️ Discover the full list: https://thebookerprizes.com/ibp2024

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The International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist in full:

Not a River by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann

The Details by Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson

Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae 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

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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.

Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.

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