The Longlist For The 2021 International Booker's Prize — Pawners Paper

longlist for the 2021 International Booker's Prize was released, featuring names of 13 authors for the award prize. Two African authors were however f

The Longlist For The 2021 International Booker's Prize

On April 30th, 2021, a longlist for the 2021 International Booker's Prize was released, featuring names of 13 authors for the award prize. Two African authors were however, featured in the list; David Diop and Thiongo'o o.

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The International Booker's Prize is a book award started in 2004 to complement the the Man Booker's Prize and it's open to a single book translated into English from a foreign language and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. 

The winner for the book prize however gets conferred with a cash award of £50,000 for the winning title and it's to be shared equally between author and translator.

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Here are the names of the the Longlisted authors and translators for the 2021 International Booker's Prize:

David Diop

Can Xue

Karen Gernant

Chen Zeping

Anna Moschovakis

Nana Ekvtimishvili

Elizabeth Heighway

Mariana Enríquez

Megan McDowell

Benjamín Labatut

Adrian Nathan West

Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Olga Ravn

Martin Aitken

Jaap Robben

David Doherty

Judith Schalansky

Jackie Smith

Adania Shibli

Elisabeth Jaquette

Maria Stepanova

Sasha Dugdale

Andzrej Tichy

Nichola Smalley

Éric Vuillard

Mark Polizzotti

The Shortlist however, will be released on 22nd of April while the winner of the book award will be announced on 6th June, 2021.