Month: March 2021

The 2021 International Booker Longlist

Posted March 30, 2021 by Michael @ Knowledge Lost in Literary Prizes / 0 Comments

  • Wretchedness by Andrzej Tichý (translated by Nichola Smalley)
  • An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky (translated by Jackie Smith)
  • At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop (translated by Anna Moschovakis)
  • I Live in the Slums by Can Xue (translated by Karen Gernant Chen Zeping)
  • In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova (translated by Sasha Dugdale)
  • Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (translated by Elisabeth Jaquette)
  • Summer Brother by Jaap Robben (translated by David Doherty)
  • The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez (translated by Megan McDowell)
  • The Employees by Olga Ravn (translated by Martin Aitken)
  • The Pear Field byNana Ekvtimishvili (translated by Elizabeth Heighway_
  • The Perfect Nine by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (translated by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o)
  • The War of the Poor by Éric Vuillard (translated by Mark Polizzotti)
  • When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut (translated by Adrian Nathan West)