Presenting the #InternationalBooker2023 shortlist: six "subversive and sensual" stories from across the world.
Here’s what the judges had to say about each book. Find out more about the shortlisted books, authors and translators: www.thebookerprizes.com/internationalbooker2023
The International Booker Prize 2023 Shortlist:
‘Boulder’ by Eva Baltasar, translated from Catalan by Julia Sanches
‘Whale’ by Cheon Myeong-kwan, translated from Korean by Chi-Young Kim
‘The Gospel According to the New World’ by Maryse Condé, translated from French by Richard Philcox
‘Standing Heavy’ by GauZ’, translated from French by Frank Wynne
‘Time Shelter’ by Georgi Gospodinov, translated from Bulgarian by Angela Rodel
‘Still Born’ by Guadalupe Nettel, translated from Spanish by Rosalind Harvey
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The International Booker Prize is awarded annually for a single book, translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.
The Booker Prizes exist to reward the finest in fiction. The symmetrical relationship between the Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize ensures that the Booker honours fiction on a global basis: world-class fiction is highlighted by the prizes for English-speaking readers, whether that work was originally written in English (the Booker Prize) or translated into English (the International Booker Prize).
The International Booker Prize began life in 2005 as the Man Booker International Prize. It was initially a biennial prize for a body of work, and there was no stipulation that the work should be written in a language other than English. Early winners of the Man Booker International Prize therefore include Alice Munro, Lydia Davis and Philip Roth, as well as Ismail Kadare and Laszlo Krasznahorkai.
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