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Man Booker International prize 2019

May 2019

  • 2019 Man Booker International Prize - Winner Photocall<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 21: Jokha Alharthi, Author, attends the winner photocall for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize at The Roundhouse on May 21, 2019 in London, England. Jokha Alharthi’s book Celestial Bodies won the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. (Photo by Peter Summers/Getty Images)

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    Broadening horizons: the best new fiction in translation

    From a Japanese masterpiece to a gothic horror set in Baghdad … which novels to read following the Man Booker International prize
  • The Man Booker International Prize 2019 Preview<br>epa07587615 Omani author Jokha al-Harthi (L) with translator Marilyn Booth (R) with Al-Harthi’s book’ Celestial Bodies’ during a photocall for The Man Booker International Prize 2019 in London, Britain, 20 May 2019. The winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2019 will be announced in London 21 May. EPA/ANDY RAIN

    Man Booker International prize: Jokha Alharthi wins for Celestial Bodies

    First female Omani novelist to be translated into English shares £50,000 prize with translator Marilyn Booth – the first time an Arabic book has won
  • A man rides a motorcycle past a wall of the Nizwa fort bearing a portrait of the Omani Sultan before the first stage of the 2018 cycling Tour of Oman from Nizwa to the Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat on February 13, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Philippe LOPEZPHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images

    Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi review – love and loss in Oman

    This family saga is the first novel from the Gulf to be shortlisted for the Man Booker International prize

April 2019

  • Nicole Flattery.

    The Guardian Books podcast
    The Man Booker international shortlist and Nicole Flattery – books podcast

    On this week’s show, we discuss the 2019 shortlist for the best fiction in translation with Boyd Tonkin, and speak to Nicole Flattery about her short story collection, Show Them a Good Time
  • French author Annie Ernaux.

    Man Booker International shortlist dominated by female authors and translators

    Six-book shortlist includes last year’s winner Olga Tokarczuk, Annie Ernaux and Juan Gabriel Vásquez
  • Annie Ernaux photographed at home in Paris last month by Ed Alcock for the Observer New Review.

    Books interview
    Annie Ernaux: ‘I was so ashamed for Catherine Deneuve…’

    The French writer on her singular memoir being longlisted for the Man Booker international prize and why #MeToo has her backing

March 2019

  • Matsushima Islands in Japan.

    The Pine Islands by Marion Poschmann review – in the footsteps of Bashō

  • (from left) Samanta Schweblin, Tommy Wieringa and Olga Tokarczuk,

    Man Booker International prize 2019 longlist sees small publishers win big

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