London: The six finalists introduced Tuesday for the Booker Worldwide Prize included novels that featured individuals grappling with the forces of nature, historical past or economics in settings from rural Argentina to communist East Germany.
The shortlist for the £50,000 ($63,000) Booker Worldwide Prize for translated fiction consists of Argentine author Selva Almada's Not a River, a fishing story with disturbing undertones; Kairos, by German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, a doomed love story set within the remaining years of East Germany's existence; and Brazilian author Itamar Vieira Junior's quick story about subsistence farmers, Crooked Plow.
Human relationships are on the heart of Sweden's The Particulars of Ia Genberg, Korean author Hwang Sok-yong's intergenerational epic Mater 2-10, and Dutch novelist Jente Posthuma's sibling saga What I'd Fairly Not Suppose About.
These books carry the burden of the previous whereas addressing the present realities of racism and oppression, world violence and ecological catastrophe, stated host Eleanor Wachtel, who chairs the judging panel. The winner can be introduced on Could 21 at a ceremony in London.
The Booker Worldwide Prize is awarded every year to a guide of fiction in any language that’s translated into English and printed in the UK or Eire. It’s organized together with the Booker Prize for Fiction in English.
The award was created to boost the profile of international language fiction, which represents solely a small proportion of books printed in Britain, and to salute the underrated work of literary translators. The prize cash is split between the successful writer and his translator.