SOURCE: THEINDIANEXPRESS

International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist announced

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 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.