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The shortlist for the International Booker Prize 2024 is announced‘Interweaving the intimate and political in radically original ways’, the shortlisted books represent six countries, three continents and a wealth of voices. The shortlisted titles, which International Booker Prize Administrator Fiammetta Rocco said ‘cast a forensic eye on divided families and divided societies, revisiting pasts both recent and distant to help make sense of the present,’ are as follows:

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

Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated from Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz

 

The six books on the shortlist have been chosen by this year’s judging panel, chaired by esteemed writer and broadcaster Eleanor Wachtel. She is joined by award-winning poet Natalie Diaz; Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist Romesh Gunesekera; ground-breaking visual artist William Kentridge; and writer, editor and translator Aaron Robertson.

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