international booker prize 2020

The International Booker Prize is awarded every year for a single book that is translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland. She lives in Buenos Aires. His translation of Natsuo Kirino’s Out was a finalist for the Edgar Award for best mystery novel in 2004, and his translation of Yoko Ogawa’s Hotel Iris was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011. 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Honoring the finest works of translated fiction from around the world, the Booker International Prize has announced its 2020 winner, The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison. The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, translated by Michele Hutchison from Dutch (Faber & Faber) Irish Times review The judges said: “Rijneveld’s language renders the world anew, revealing the shocks and violence of early youth through the prism of a Dutch dairy farm. ‘I’ve always had a penchant for child narrators too, they appeal to my own inner lost child. He is a prizewinning translator and writes literary criticism for The Times Literary Supplement, among other publications. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space and Zoetrope. This year the judges considered 124 books. “Whether capturing a deftly imagined dystopia or incandescent flows of language, these are tremendous feats of translation, which in these isolating times, represent the pinnacle of an art-form rooted in dialogue. He lives in Vienna, Berlin and New York. She is also co-author of The Happiest Kids in the World. Your screen name should follow the standards set out in our. She lives in Japan. The Memory Police by Yoko Ogowa, translated by Stephen Snyder from Japanese (Harvill Secker) Irish Times review The judges said: “Originally published in the 1990s, this novel speaks directly to the amnesiac present: a world in which things disappear, then the memory of things themselves, in affectless prose that mirrors this erasure.”. Sign up to the Irish Times books newsletter for features, podcasts and more. The other three shortlisted titles, Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor, The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa and The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld all touch on how trauma, whether through violent acts or emotional loss, shape our experiences and approach to the world. Her translations include the bestselling An American Princess by Annejet van der Zijl, Mona in Three Acts by Griet op de Beeck and Seaweed by Miek Zwamborn. It is a novel that does its best to make sure you won’t forget it anytime soon.”, Pierce likened Jas to Benny, the disturbed child protagonist of Michael Haneke’s 1992 film Benny’s Video, and identified the novel as part of a “trend for novels and stories that focus on, to put it plainly, grotesque characters written about grotesquely. Der International Booker Prize, einer der wichtigsten internationalen Literaturpreise, geht in die Niederlande an Marieke Lucas Rijneveld und die Übersetzerin Michele Hutchison.. Rijneveld, Jahrgang 1991, wird für ihren 2018 erschienenen Debütroman „De avond is ongemak“ ausgezeichnet, der in deutscher Übersetzung unter dem Titel „Was man sät“ 2019 bei Suhrkamp erschienen ist. This year the judges considered 124 books. Melchor’s Hurricane Season opens with the gruesome discovery of a murder victim, but the novel’s narrative drive quickly shifts to asking, ‘Why?’ rather than ‘Who?’ and through the characters’ stories we are introduced to a world governed by poverty and violence, misogyny, and prejudice. BBC’s Razia Iqbal hosted the virtual celebration which included remarks from the judges and Booker Prize staff and readings from all of the novels on the shortlist. Perhaps the urtext of this trend is Ottessa Moshfegh’s Eileen.”. Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Ross Benjamin from German (Quercus) Irish Times review The judges said: “This novel travels with the currents of history. When asked if the dark themes of the novel—which are based in their own childhood experiences—appeal to one kind of sensibility, Rijneveld said: “there’s always light in darkness, just as there’s always humor in gruesomeness. Hodgkinson said: “We set ourselves an immense task in selecting a winner from our superb shortlist, filled with fiction bold enough to upend mythic foundations and burst the banks of the novel itself. In 2018, Atlas Contact published their first novel, The Discomfort of Evening, which won the prestigious ANV Debut Prize and was a national bestseller. You should receive instructions for resetting your password. To comment you must now be an Irish Times subscriber. Combining a disarming new sensibility with a translation of singular sensitivity, The Discomfort of Evening is a tender and visceral evocation of a childhood caught between shame and salvation, and a deeply deserving winner of the 2020 International Booker Prize. A ghostly portrait of a family caught in the abject violence of political unrest.”. She is one of the leading figures in Argentinian and Latin American literature and one of the region’s most prominent feminist intellectuals. Booker International longlist: six of the best? One of the greatest new voices in Dutch literature, their first poetry collection, Calfskin, was awarded the C. Buddingh’ Prize for best poetry debut in 2015. International Booker Prize 2020 shortlist announced Translations from Spanish, German, Dutch, Farsi and Japanese up for £50,000 prize Thu, Apr 2, 2020, 12:25. Resentful at being left alone, she attempts to bargain with God, pitting the life of her pet rabbit against that of her brother; he never returns.

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