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International Booker Prize’s 2024 longlist announced

12 March 2024 00:37 (UTC +04:00)

Booker Prize Foundation has released its longlist for the 2023 edition of the International Booker Prize, APA reports.

The key point being stressed as this longlist, of so many this season, is released is that a quarter of the list comes from South American authors. Markets represented by those books are Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Venezuela. Whether this reveals the “second ‘boom’ in Latin American fiction” the company is positing will be revealed, of course, over time.

Independent publishers are in the lead with nine titles.

The focus of this Booker is translation, and its £50,000 prize (US$64,212) is to be split into £25,000 (US$32,106) for the author and £25,000 for the translator—or divided equally between multiple translators. There also is a purse of £5,000 (US$6,421) for each of the shortlisted titles: £2,500 (US$3,210) for the author and £2,500 for the translator or, again, divided equally between multiple translators.

Since its first recipient was named in 2005—and until 2015 the honor was conferred only every other year—the International Booker Prize has become the world’s leading recognition of its kind, a pace-setting award known for its equal acknowledgment of authors and translators. This prize is also the inspiration for other similar awards, including the United States’ National Book Awards’ Translated Literature category, announced in January 2018 by chair David Steinberger and then-director Lisa Lucas in New York.

The 2024 International Booker Prize Longlist

Title	Original Language	Author	Author Nationality	Translator(s)	Translator Nationality	UK Publisher/Imprint
Not a River	Spanish	Selva Almada	Argentinian	Annie McDermott	British	Charco Press
Simpatía	Spanish	Rodrigo Blanco Calderón	Venezuelan	Noel Hernández González and Daniel Hahn	Spanish and British	Seven Stories Press UK
Kairos	German	Jenny Erpenbeck	German	Michael Hofmann	German	Granta Books
The Details	Swedish	Ia Genberg	Swedish	Kira Josefsson	Swedish	Wildfire Books
White NIghts	Polish	Ursula Honek	Polish	Kate Webster	British	MTO Press
Mater 2-10	Korean	Hwang Sok-yong	Korean	Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae	Korean-American and Korean	Scribe Publications UK
A Dictator Calls	Albanian	Ismail Kadare	Albanian	John Hodgson	British	Penguin Random House / Harvill Secker
The Silver Bone: The Kyiv Mysteries	Russian	Andrey Kurkov	Ukrainian	Boris Dralyuk	Ukrainian-American	Hachette UK / MacLehose Press
What I’d Rather Not Think About	Dutch	Jente Posthuma	Dutch	Sarah Timmer Harvey	Australian	Scribe Publications UK
Lost on Me	Italian	Veronica Raimo	Italian	Leah Janeczko	American	Hachette UK / Virago
The House on Via Gemito	Italian	Dominico Starnone	Italian	Oonagh Stransky	American-Italian	Europa Editions
Crooked Plow	Portuguese	Itamar Vieira Junor	Brazilian	Johnny Lorenz	American	Verso Fiction
Undiscovered	Spanish	Gabriela Wiener	Peruvian	Julia Sanches	Brazilian	Pushkin Press