#InternationalBooker2024 shortlisted author Itamar Vieira Junior and translator Johnny Lorenz discuss the origins of Crooked Plow, the similarities between the art of translation and writing poetry and how Vieria Junior's career as a geographer helped him bring the story to life.
We spoke to Jenny Erpenbeck and Michael Hofmann, shortlisted for the #InternationalBooker2024 about the universality of this story, how translators maintain the spirit of the original text and what the judges might be looking for in a winner this year.
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#InternationalBooker2024 Colonialism, cultural appropriation, heritage, sex, infidelity, clarity through suffering….this is the first new novel to me on the longlist I’ve read that felt like it belongs there. Very happy to have read it, hope it advances, and finds more readers.
This is quite surreal. ‘White Nights’ by Urszula Honek, in my translation, has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize! How exciting! #InternationalBooker2024
#InternationalBooker2024 I thought this was terrific, the most spare prose on the longlist thus far. I like what she does with time, and this is a beautiful study in compression. I’m not sure I’ve seen dialogue ever treated this way. Hope it advances, I think it should.
#InternationalBooker2024 Two more from the longlist in the mail today. I have very high hopes for NOT A RIVER, I was very impressed by DEAD GIRLS. I know nothing of Jente Posthuma, so I appreciate the longlist correcting that gap.
This month, we’re joining up with The Notting Hill Bookshop in London, the bookshop made famous by the 1999 Richard Curtis film, to celebrate all things translated fiction and the #InternationalBooker2024 .
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#InternationalBooker2024 I enjoyed this, my introduction to his work. There is a light touch throughout; the cogs of the machinery fit perfectly. I would like to see this advance, but am worried only two South American works will (PLOW and RIVER). One work left to read.
With the second of our #InternationalBooker2024 shortlist podcasts out next week, there's no time like the present to catch up on part one.
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In the mail today. Another #InternationalBooker2024 title, my most anticipated read on the longlist, very intrigued by it. Also, the latest from JKS, a writer which took me a couple of books to find my stride and now having done so, want to read everything. #BookTwitter
This GORGEOUS novel I worked on is on the #InternationalBooker2024 shortlist!
The jury stated: ‘Genberg writes with a remarkably sharp eye’
We're three weeks away from the #InternationalBooker2024 award ceremony, so we thought it was high time to delve into shortlisted books on our podcast.
🎧 Listen to the first of our two shortlist podcast episodes: megaphone.link/BPF6013211775
Two weeks to go until the #InternationalBooker2024 award ceremony, sponsored by Valentino and hosted by Shahidha Bari 📻 🎙️📚🖌. 🎉
Which of the shortlisted books has surprised you the most and why?
Proud that my father Ismail Kadare was nominated on the long list of #InternationalBooker2024 although he was already awarded the Prize in 2005. Many thanks to my former Dutch colleague from UN Karel van Oosterom and to Jenne Jan Holtland for sharing the news. Such a nice surprise! 🤞