Olga Tokarczuk, last year’s winner of the Man Booker International Prize with Flights, translated by Jennifer Croft, has made this year’s longlist with Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, although with a different translator, Antonia Lloyd-Jones. The 2019 longlist features longlisted books by authors from 12 countries and translated from nine languages . It is dominated by independent publishers, with only two from the larger conglomerates, and by female authors, making up eight of the 13 longlisted. Crankstart, the charitable foundation of Michael Moritz and his wife, Harriet Heyman, will be the new supporter of the Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize from June 1st. These are stories of life in a war zone, life peppered by surreal mistakes, tragic accidents and painful encounters.

Source: The Irish Times March 13, 2019 00:00 UTC