Books on prize shortlist
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BOOKS on “crooked witches” to the “history of science” have been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.
The prize awards the best fiction from around the world, translated into English. Two-thirds of the authors shortlisted this year are published in English for the first time.
Topics in the six books also include homeless ghosts and cultural and personal memory. Judges said the books are all “urgent, energetic and wildly original works of literature”.
“We have the genres of sci-fi and ghost stories being brilliantly subverted and repurposed,” Lucy Hughes-Hallett, chair of the judges, said.
“We have biographical essays opening out to become blazingly imaginative testaments to the strangeness of the universe or the cruelty of human injustice.”
The £50,000 prize is split evenly between author and translator.
The 2021 International Booker Prize winner will be announced on June 2. To see the full shortlist, visit thebookerprizes. com/internationalbooker/2021