April 23, 2021 Share
The final six candidates for the 50,000-pound ($69,000) International Booker Prize are books from Europe and Latin America that blur the lines between fiction, history, and memoir.
The shortlist for the literary award, revealed Thursday, includes Eric Vuillard’s “The War of the Poor,” a tale of faith and revolution set in France, Maria Stepanova’s Jewish-Russian family background “In Memory of Memory,” and Mariana Enriquez’s inventive short-story collection “The Dangers of Smoking in Bed.” The other finalists included France’s David Diop’s war tale “At Night All Blood is Black,” Chile’s Benjamn Labatut’s science-themed story set “When We Cease to Understand the World,” and Danish writer Olga Ravn’s dystopian workplace novel “The Employees.”