Here is the long-awaited International Booker Prize 2021 Shortlist!
The International Booker Prize Shortlist has finally been announced, and this year s list includes new names and familiar faces.
This past week, the highly esteemed literary prize, the International Booker Prize, announced their long-awaited shortlist for 2021.
After intense deliberation by a panel of five carefully curated and high-esteemed judges, the shortlist of authors and translators who are now one step closer to winning that incredible and sought-after prize, The International Booker Prize, is announced to an eagerly awaiting literary world.
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This year, the list includes authors from Russia, Denmark, Senegal and Argentina, just to name a few, and includes fiction from a wide array of genres.
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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.”
International Booker Prize: The Employees , In Memory of Memory among those shortlisted
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Last Updated: Apr 23, 2021, 06:02 PM IST
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The winner will be announced June 2, with the prize money split between the winning book s author and its translator.
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LONDON: Books from Europe and Latin America that blur the boundaries of fiction, history and memoir are the final six contenders for the 50,000-pound ($69,000) International Booker Prize. The shortlist for the literary award, announced Thursday, includes The War of the Poor, a story of religion and revolution by France s Eric Vuillard, Jewish-Russian family history In Memory of Memory by Russian writer Maria Stepanova and imaginative short-story collection The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Argentina s Mariana Enriquez.
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As one might expect from a prize with a global reach, the six-strong shortlist for this year’s Booker International Prize for fiction contains multitudes and dazzles with its variety, translated into English from Danish, French, Spanish and Russian.
Two are short story collections, one terrifying tales of magic realism set in contemporary Argentina, the other accounts of defining moments from the history of science. The novels tell of two Senegalese soldiers fighting for France during the first World War; the lives of the crew on a space ship in the 22nd century; an exploration of cultural and personal memory, based on the author’s Jewish family history in Russia; and a tale of rebellion against power and privilege set during the Reformation but inspired by today’s Gilets Jaunes protests.
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From Maria Stepanovaâs family memoir to a historical essay by Ãric Vuillard, this yearâs shortlist for the International Booker prize for translated fiction is highlighting works that âare really pushing the boundariesâ of fiction and nonfiction.
The International Booker goes to âthe finest fiction from around the worldâ that has been translated into English. Six books are now in the running for the £50,000 award, which is split equally between author and translator, all of them displaying âan extraordinary amount of ingenuity and originalityâ, said chair of judges Lucy Hughes-Hallett.
After reading 125 books to come up with their final six, the judges found they were swayed towards works that blurred the lines between fiction and nonfiction.