The shortlist for the £50,000 award includes Argentine writer Selva Almada’s Not a River, German author Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos and Brazilian writer Itamar Vieira Junior’s Crooked Plow
Novels that depict people struggling with the forces of nature, history or economics in settings from rural Argentina to Communist East Germany are among six finalists announced Tuesday for the International Booker Prize for translated fiction.
“These books bear the weight of the past while at the same time engaging with current realities of racism and oppression, global violence and ecological disaster,” said broadcaster Eleanor Wachtel, who is chairing the judging panel.The International Booker Prize is awarded every year to a book of fiction in any language that is translated into English and published in the U.K. or Ireland. It is run alongside the Booker Prize for English-language fiction.
The prize was set up to boost the profile of fiction in other languages – which accounts for only a small share of books published in Britain – and to salute the underappreciated work of literary translators. The prize money is split between the winning author and their translator.
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