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Some £19,000 in awards money has been shared among the 2022 winners of the translation honors administered by the Society of Authors.

The central premise of Summer Brother, Jaap Robben’s evocative coming-of-age novel, longlisted for the International Booker prize, is that love can thrive in the unlikeliest of places. Thirteen-year-old Brian lives in a dilapidated caravan on a piece of scrubland with his feckless father, Maurice. His older brother, Lucien, physically and mentally disabled, resides in the local care home. Their mother, Milou, has remarried. One summer, the manager offers Maurice a generous allowance to look after Lucien while they undergo renovation works. Maurice manages to evade a “house” in...

By Prisca Sam-Duru Africa’s literary colossus, Professor Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, made history on Tuesday, when he was longlisted among twelve other authors for the 2021 International Booker Prize, as both author and translator of the same book, ‘The Perfect Nine’, as well as the first nominee writing in an indigenous African Language. With his nomination, Prof Wa Thiong’o, an 83-year-old renowned author of “Weep Not Child”, becomes the first nominee writing in an indigenous African language. A perennial Nobel Prize favourite, the Africa’s literary giant is among 13 authors nominate...

In ‘Summer Brother,’ Sibling Bonding During a Season of Turmoil Credit...Jackson Joyce By Jaap Robben Excuse the generic title, “Summer Brother.” The book really sounds cooler with its original Dutch name, “Zomervacht,” which translates to “summer coat,” as in, what an animal has after it sheds its winter fur. It’s more fitting because, like a molting creature, the Dutch author Jaap Robben’s second novel shows us the shedding of innocence. “Summer Brother,” translated by David Doherty, shakes out over a hot summer, during that potent...