LONDON: The six finalists for the International Man Booker Prize announced on Tuesday include novels set in places ranging from rural Argentina to communist East Germany and featuring people struggling with the forces of nature, history and economics. Ta.
The finalists for the International Man Booker Prize, which awards 50,000 pounds (about $63,000) for translated fiction, include Argentine author Selva Almada's “Not a River.'' Kairos, by German author Jenny Erpenbeck, is a doomed love story set in the final years of East Germany's existence. and Crooked Plow, a story of a subsistence farmer by Brazilian author Itamar Vieira Jr.
Detail by Sweden's Ia Genberg, the intergenerational epic Meter 2-10 by South Korean writer Hwang Seo-kyung, and the sibling tale Things I Don't Want to Think by Dutch novelist Jente Postoma explore human relationships. is the main focus.
Broadcaster Eleanor Wachtel, chair of the jury, said these books carry the weight of the past while also tackling current realities such as racism and oppression, global violence and environmental disaster. said. The winner will be announced at a ceremony in London on May 21st.
The International Booker Prize is awarded annually to a fiction book in any language translated into English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. It runs in parallel with the Booker Prize for English Fiction.
The award was established to raise the profile of fiction in other languages, which makes up a small proportion of books published in the UK, and to pay tribute to the work of under-appreciated literary translators. It was done. The prize money will be divided between the winning authors and their translators.
