The list includes books from Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov as well as Indian novelist Perumal Murugan who declared himself ‘dead’ after protests against his work
Joining Slimani on this year’s judging panel are Uilleam Blacker, one of Britain’s leading literary translators from Ukrainian; Tan Twan Eng, the Booker-shortlisted Malaysian novelist; Parul Sehgal, staff writer and critic at the New Yorker; and Frederick Studemann, literary editor of the Financial Times.
Slimani said the list was a “celebration of the power of language and of authors who wanted to push formal inquiry as far as possible”. Eva Baltasar’s Boulder, translated by Julie Sanches from Catalan, is about a woman nicknamed Boulder by Samsa, a woman she meets on a merchant ship and who she falls in love with.
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