Argentine writer Selva Almada’s Not a River made it into the International Booker Prize’s longlist of 13 finalists, which was announced on Monday. “The list heralds a second ‘boom’ in Latin American fiction,” reads the official announcement on the Booker Prize website. When asked last year why Ireland has the best writers, after four Irish authors appeared on the Booker Prize 2023 longlist, the eventual winner Paul Lynch said: ‘Can I let you into a secret? I think South America has the best writers.’”The International Booker Prize is awarded annually to a single work of fiction from anywhere in the world, translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland. The last Argentine author to make the International Booker shortlist was Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, with The Adventures of China Iron, a feminist take on the 19th-century traditional Argentine poem Martín Fierro.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald March 12, 2024 03:28 UTC