The International Booker Prize 2020 - Longlist

13 bøker har fått plass på langlista, og den er som følger:

Author (Original language - Country/territory) Translator Title Publisher/Imprint

• Willem Anker (Afrikaans-South Africa) Michiel Heyns Red Dog Pushkin Press
• Shokoofeh Azar (Farsi-Iran) Anonymous The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree Europa Editions
• Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (Spanish-Argentina) Iona Macintyre og Fiona Mackintosh The Adventures of China Iron Charco Press
• Jon Fosse (Norwegian-Norway) Damion Searls The Other Name: Septology I-II Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Nino Haratischvili (German-Georgia) Charlotte Collins og Ruth Martin The Eighth Life Scribe UK
• Michel Houellebecq (French-France) Shaun Whiteside Serotonin William Heinemann
• Daniel Kehlmann (German-Germany) Ross Benjamin Tyll Quercus
• Fernanda Melchor (Spanish-Mexico) Sophie Hughes Hurricane Season Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Yoko Ogawa (Japanese-Japan) Stephen Snyder The Memory Police Harvill Secker
• Emmanuelle Pagano (French-France) Sophie Lewis og Jennifer Higgins Faces on the Tip of My Tongue Peirene Press
• Samantha Schweblin (Spanish-Argentina) Megan McDowell Little Eyes Oneworld
• Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (Dutch-Netherlands) Michele Hutchison The Discomfort of Evening Faber & Faber
• Enrique Vila-Matas (Spanish-Spain) Margaret Jull Costa og Sophie Hughes Mac and His Problem Harvill Secker

Sakset frå nettsiden:

The longlist was selected by a panel of five judges, chaired by Ted Hodgkinson, Head of Literature and Spoken Word at Southbank Centre. The panel also includes: Lucie Campos, director of the Villa Gillet, France's centre for international writing; Man Booker International Prize-winning translator and writer Jennifer Croft; LA Times Book Prize for Fiction-winning author Valeria Luiselli and writer, poet and musician Jeet Thayil, whose novel Narcopolis was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2012. 

Ted Hodgkinson says:
‘What a thrill to share a longlist of such breadth and brilliance, reflecting a cumulative artistry rooted in dialogue between authors and translators, and possessing a power to enlarge the scope of lives encountered on the page, from the epic to the everyday. Whether reimagining foundational myths, envisioning dystopias of disquieting potency, or simply setting the world ablaze with the precision of their perceptions, these are books that left indelible impressions on us as judges. In times that increasingly ask us to take sides, these works of art transcend moral certainties and narrowing identities, restoring a sense of the wonderment at the expansive and ambiguous lot of humanity.’ 

The shortlist for the 2020 International Booker Prize will be announced on Thursday, 2 April, at an event at Ennismore Sessions House in London. Together, the two Booker Prizes reward the best fiction from around the globe that is published in English in the UK and Ireland. The Booker Prizes are sponsored by Crankstart, the charitable foundation of Sir Michael Moritz and his wife, Harriet Heyman.

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