LONDON — “The Discomfort of Evening,” a story of childhood grief that reviewers have called both “disturbing” and “exceptional,” was named on Wednesday as the winner of the International Booker Prize, the prestigious award for fiction translated into English. Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, the book’s author, shares the prize of 50,000 pounds, about $66,000, with Michele Hutchison, who translated it from the original Dutch. The annual International Booker Prize is administered by the same foundation as the Booker Prize, which is awarded for fiction written in English. To be eligible for the International Booker, a translated book must be published in Britain. Past winners have included “The Vegetarian” by the Korean writer Han Kang, and “Flights” by Olga Tokarczuk, who was subsequently awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Source: International New York Times August 26, 2020 15:56 UTC