International Booker Prize 2021 shortlist announced
The Hindu
The contenders often include writers who are widely read in their own languages but less known in English.
Books from Europe and Latin America that blur the boundaries of fiction, history and memoir are the final six contenders for the 50,000-pound International Booker Prize. The shortlist for the literary award, announced on Thursday, includes The War of the Poor, a story of religion and revolution by France’s Eric Vuillard, Jewish-Russian family history In Memory of Memory by Russian writer Maria Stepanova and imaginative short-story collection The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Argentina’s Mariana Enriquez. The other finalists are war story At Night All Blood is Black, by France’s David Diop, science-themed story collection When We Cease to Understand the World by Chile’s Benjamín Labatut and futuristic workplace novel The Employees by Danish writer Olga Ravn.
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