Many thanks to Peter Jordens for reminding us that we had not officially announced the translation of Maryse Condé’s L’Évangile du nouveau monde (Buchet-Chastel, 2021). Translated by Richard Philcox, The Gospel According to the New World was published by World Editions in March 2023. [Also see our previous post 7 new must-read Caribbean books in…
The £50,000 (approx. $83,169 Cdn) global prize honours the best work of fiction translated into English from anywhere in the world. There are no Canadians on this year's shortlist.
Perumal Murugan's Tamil novel Pyre, translated into English by Aniruddhan Vasudevan, missed out on the next stage of the International Booker Prize 2023 as..