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The International Booker Prize 2023 longlist in numbers

11

Original languages from which the books have been translated
 

3

Authors published in English for the first time

54

Years between the youngest and oldest authors

4

Translators who have been previously nominated for the prize
 

112

Pages in the shortest book on this year’s longlist
 

3

Original languages represented on the longlist for the first time
 

134

Books read by the judges before selecting their longlist
 

 

24

The age of the youngest translator on the longlist

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