The six books shortlisted for this year’s International Booker Prize, which celebrates the finest translated fiction from around the world, has just been announced digitally for the first time. The International Booker Prize is awarded every year for a single book that is translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland. 2020 International Booker Prize shortlistThe Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar, translated by Anonymous from Farsi ( Europa Editions)Irish Times reviewThe judges said: “A wild, humorous revisitation of Persian myths and fables, filled with brutal scenes of contemporary life. His works include Measuring the World, Me & Kaminski and Fame, and have won numerous prizes, including the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Doderer Prize, The Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize and the Thomas Mann Prize. In 2019 she was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize for her translation of Alia Trabucco Zerán’s The Remainder.

Source: The Irish Times April 02, 2020 11:26 UTC