Man Booker International Shortlist Announced
The Man Booker International Prize shortlist was announced on April 13. Prior to 2016, the award was presented every two years and honoured a writer’s entire body of work. The focus of the award changed when it formed a partnership with The Independent Fiction Prize; it now celebrates a single work of fiction translated into English and will be presented annually.
The finalists for this year’s award are:
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The Four Books by Yan Lianke, translated from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas
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A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa, translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein
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A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk, translated from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap
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The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler, translated from the German by Charlotte Collins
The authors and translators of the shortlisted works each receive £1,000. The author and translator of the winning book will split £50,000. That announcement will take place on May 16.
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