The International Booker Prize has revealed the ‘Booker Dozen’ of 13 novels in contention for the 2023 prize, which celebrates the finest works of translated fiction from around the world.
The prize is awarded every year for a single book that is translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland. It aims to encourage more publishing and reading of quality works of imagination from all over the world, and to give greater recognition to the role of translators.The contribution of both author and translator is given equal recognition, with the £50,000 prize split evenly between them.
This year's longlist features work from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, the oldest writer ever to be nominated, three writers who appear in English for the first time, and books translated from 11 languages.
Below are the thirteen longlisted books for the 2023 International Booker Prize.
- Ninth Building by Zou Jingzhi (translated by Jeremy Tiang)
- A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding by Amanda Svensson (translated by Nichola Smalley)
- Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel (translated by Rosalind Harvey)
- Pyre by Perumal Murugan (translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan)
- While We Were Dreaming by Clemens Meyer (translated by Katy Derbyshire)
- The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier (translated by Daniel Levin Becker)
- Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov (translated by Reuben Woolley)
- Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth (translated by Charlotte Barslund)
- Standing Heavy by GauZ' (translated by Frank Wynne)
- Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov (translated by Angela Rodel)
- The Gospel According to the New World by Maryse Condé (translated by Richard Philcox)
- Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan (translated by Chi-Young Kim)
- Boulder by Eva Baltasar (translated by Julia Sanches)
