The International Booker Prize 2024 has been announced! I’ll be reading the full longlist, books for which are listed below. Is any one else planning to do so or interested in it? (I’ve already read ‘The Details’.) Does anyone have initial thoughts on the longlist?
– Not a River by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott
– Simpatía by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, translated by Noel Hernández González and Daniel Hahn
– Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann
– The Details by Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson
– White Nights by Urszula Honek, translated by Kate Webster
– Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae
– A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare, translated by John Hodgson
– The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk
– What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey
– Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo, translated by Leah Janeczko
– The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone, translated by Oonagh Stransky
– Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated by Johnny Lorenz
– Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener, translated by Julia Sanches
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Of this list, I have read two – Kairos (hated it) and Lost On Me (a fun book, but not exactly award worthy great).
Of the rest I’m initially interested in the Kadare (I’ve been reading his stuff recently in general), Simpatía and Mater 2-10 (hopefully better than Whale).