International Booker Prize Longlist 2022 - Reaction

Here are the 13 books listed for this year's International Booker Prize – one of the most exciting book awards around. Some of these titles I've loved and others I want to read. Click ‘Show More’ for info & links.

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The International Booker Prize site: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booke...

Shortlist announced April 7
Winner announced May 26

An interview with Anton Hur via Matthew Sciarappa:    • Interview With A Translator | Anton Hur  

An interview with Sam Bett and David Boyd: https://www.full-stop.net/2021/06/02/...


Books discussed & purchase links:

Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung (translated by Anton Hur)
https://tidd.ly/3qe9ScD

After the Sun by Jonas Eika (translated by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg)
https://tidd.ly/3jfF3B9

A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse (translated by Damion Searls)
https://tidd.ly/2XjNq6i

More Than I Love My Life by David Grossman (translated by Jessica Cohen)
https://tidd.ly/3ueNr9R

The Book of Mother by Violaine Huisman (translated by Leslie Camhi)
https://tidd.ly/3vNEULU

Heaven by Mieko Kawakami (translated by Samuel Bett and David Boyd)
https://tidd.ly/3x0U39Y

Paradais by Fernanda Melchor (translated by Sophie Hughes)
https://tidd.ly/3vTvPkA

Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park (translated by Anton Hur)
https://tidd.ly/3gFwvRX

Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu (translated by Tiffany Tsao)
https://tidd.ly/3IuSG9l

Elena Knows by Claudia Pineiro (translated by Frances Riddle)
https://tidd.ly/3Mk3p9o

Phenotypes by Paulo Scott (translated by Daniel Hahn)
https://tidd.ly/32xl4IE

Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree (translated by Daisy Rockwell)
https://tidd.ly/3Mz2PVg

The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Jennifer Croft)
https://tidd.ly/3dqHOf8


My reviews of the books I've read so far:

More Than I Love My Life by David Grossman (translated by Jessica Cohen)
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2022/...

Heaven by Mieko Kawakami (translated by Samuel Bett and David Boyd)
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2021/...

Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park (translated by Anton Hur)
   • Love in the Big City by Sang Young Pa...  

Elena Knows by Claudia Pineiro (translated by Frances Riddle)
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2022/...


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