13 Things About The International Booker Prize 2023

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Here are 13 additional interesting geeky fun facts about the longlist for the 2023 International Booker Prize. Click ‘Show More’ for info & links.
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My overview of the books on the longlist: • The International Book...
International Booker Prize: thebookerprizes.com
13 Things You Need to Know about the 2023 Prize: thebookerprizes.com/the-booke...
Shortlist: April 18
Winner: May 23
The full longlist & purchase links:
Boulder - Eva Baltasar (translated by Julia Sanches)
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The Gospel According to the New World - Maryse Conde (translated by Richard Philcox)
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Standing Heavy - GauZ' (translated by Frank Wynne)
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Time Shelter - Georgi Gospodinov (translated by Angela Rodel)
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Is Mother Dead - Vigdis Hjorth (translated by Charlotte Barslund)
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Ninth Building - Zou Jingzhi (translated by Jeremy Tiang)
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Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv - Andrey Kurkov (translated by Reuben Woolley)
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The Birthday Party - Laurent Mauvignier (translated by Daniel Levin Becker)
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While We Were Dreaming - Clemens Meyer (translated by Katy Derbyshire)
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Pyre - Perumal Murugan (translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan)
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Whale - Cheon Myeong-Kwan (translated by Chi-Young Kim)
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Still Born - Guadalupe Nettel (translated by Rosalind Harvey)
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A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding - Amanda Svensson (translated by Nichola Smalley)
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Комментарии : 34

@wendellm9485 Год назад

Love your facts and stats!

@EricKarlAnderson Год назад

😊📚

@cindyhaiken5644 Год назад

I am one of those geeky readers who loves these kinds of trivia round-ups. Thanks so much for sharing. My interest in this Prize grows every year.

@EricKarlAnderson Год назад

That’s good to hear! 😊📚

@KierTheScrivener Год назад

These are so fun!

@EricKarlAnderson Год назад

😊📚

@nicksg3002 Год назад

You have an outstanding memory loss you are super kind and thank you for sharing🎉

@bookish-bedlam Год назад

I'm starting with "Time Shelter" and I hope to read them all. Thank you, Eric.

@EricKarlAnderson Год назад

Great, I'm hoping to get to that soon too.

@Ellen_Mercy Год назад

None of the longlist really calls to me yet, which is unusual for me. I'll wait for more Booktube reviews to come in. Love your new goofy profile pic by the way! we all need more goofiness 😸

@garagegeek4863 Год назад

This was some awesome information- thank you! I’m starting with Pyre - it was available in audiobook from the library!

@EricKarlAnderson Год назад

Ah great, hope you enjoy

@alexiarichardson651 Год назад

I actually think 20 books a year translated from Catalan is loads, given that swathes of the African continent have tiny numbers of books translated into English (even if there are authors writing in French, hardly a small language); or look at books from India not written in English, for example. But of course, I'm all for variety in the Booker International, just wanted to say that that struck me!

@DavidOre Год назад

your full name: Eric Karl 'Context' Anderson - it's what's makes your posts so incredibly interesting and informative - David@Montreal

@EricKarlAnderson Год назад

Haha! Thank you! 😊📚

@mariasmiles68 Год назад

I'm interested in the one from Bulgaria as I went there in 2005. I have heard great things about Whale and interested in reading that as well.

@EricKarlAnderson Год назад

Great! Hope you enjoy them. 📚

@danicadabic9789 Год назад

Gospodinov is a well known and accomplished writer and it's high time he is recognized in the anglophone world (which is true of the many writers coming from the Balkans).

@Stu_winstonsdad Год назад

I'm on my eighth book off the list I did a reaction vlog my first vlog

@EricKarlAnderson Год назад

That’s impressive progress and congrats on getting into the vlogging world!

@jamesduggan7200 Год назад

Thx, Eric: I'm going to try to read Histoires de la nuit, which is the original French language edition of the translated The Birthday Party. So thank you again, as I'm looking forward to the challenge.

@AnnNovella Год назад

I was very underwhelmed reading this book.

@jamesduggan7200 Год назад

@@AnnNovella ofc this is disappointing to hear but it has to be better than Proust's "Lost Time" in which literally nothing ever happens

@EricKarlAnderson Год назад

Great, hope you enjoy it!

@TheEmzies Год назад

Interested that two authors deal with ambivalence around motherhood. I see more women / womxn questioning whether motherhood is for them so keen to see how its explored in novel form

@EricKarlAnderson Год назад

Yes, good point!

@LauraFreyReadinginBed Год назад

I noticed the list skews a little old this time, a lot of Gen Xers. And amanda Svensson is the only millennial. I also noticed is very light on Asian languages. I was expecting to see Meiko Kawakami, Yoko Tawada, Can Xue, Han Kang.

@EricKarlAnderson Год назад

Yes, that’s true!

@katrinamuritala3207 Год назад

I’m interested in time shelter pye new world a system

@EricKarlAnderson Год назад

Great, hope you enjoy them 📚

@ianp9086 Год назад

The question of why Europe figures so much might also come down to all the languages there - North America, Australia and NZ, India and Sri Lanka, and some parts of Africa often have authors publishing in English and are therefore in the NON International Booker (bizarrely) like last year’s winner of that prize!

@EricKarlAnderson Год назад

Yes, interesting point

@mradcaqbdb Год назад

I just finished listening to Pyre the other night. While the narrator was excellent, I can’t recommend this book. I found it an extremely painful reading experience. Do you ever want to just reach into the pages of a book (or my iPad, in this case) and slap the characters? That’s how I felt with Pyre. The behavior of the husband’s family and those in his village was absolutely infuriating and eventually left me despondent. Maybe it’s true to life. Maybe it’s well written. But it’s also just brutal.

@EricKarlAnderson Год назад

Oh sorry to hear that. I’ll let you know what I make of it. I’ve definitely had that feeling many times in the past of want to slap some characters.