The Booker Prize Foundation has announced the longlist of this year’s International Booker Prize, formerly known as the Man Booker Prize.
The prize is worth £50,000.
In a statement released by the foundation Thursday, it was revealed that the judges considered 124 books, which they later whittled down to their “International Booker Dozen/.
The 13-strong longlist is dominated by Europeans and includes three Latin American authors, two from Asia and one from Africa.
The shortlist will be announced on April 2, 2020 and the winner on May 19. Last year’s winner was Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi, translated by Marilyn Booth. The Booker Prizes are sponsored by Crankstart, the charitable foundation of Sir Michael Moritz and his wife, Harriet Heyman.
The longlisted 13 book are:
1. Red Dog by Willem Anker, translated by Michiel Heyns.
2. The Enlightenment of The Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar, translated anonymously.
3. The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Iona Macintyre and Fiona Mackintosh.
Other Name: Septology I – II by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls.
5. The Eighth Life by Nino Haratiscvili, translated by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin.
6. Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq, translated by Shaun Whiteside.
7. Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Ross Benjamin.
8. Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes.
9.The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder.
10 Faces on the Tip of My Tongue by Emmanuelle Pagano, translated by Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins.
11. Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell.
12. The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, translated by Michele Hutchinson.
13. Mac and His Problem by Enrique Vila-Matas, translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Sophie Hughes.
The longlist was selected by a panel of five judges, chaired by Ted Hodgkinson, Head of Literature and Spoken Word at Southbank Centre.
Other members of the panel are Lucie Campos, Jennifer Croft, Valeria Luiselli and Jeet Thayil.
