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Discover the longlist: Fernanda Melchor, ‘Dickens has never been my thing’
Fernanda Melchor reveals how the fragility of Mexican society inspired her novel Paradais.
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Sophie Hughes interview: ‘When you translate fiction, the masquerade frees you’
Hughes reveals challenges she faces in the art of translation and tells us how reading J.M. Coetzee changed her life.
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Discover the shortlist: Frances Riddle, ‘Literary translation felt impossibly out of reach’
Frances Riddle tells us about the path that led her to Spanish translation in Buenos Aires.
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Discover the shortlist: Claudia Piñeiro, ‘I’ve always been very rebellious’
The globally bestselling author and scriptwriter discusses the inspiration behind the unlikely protagonist at the heart of her novel Elena Knows.
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Discover the longlist: David Grossman, ‘I wanted to write a book that quivers on the shelf’
The author reveals how a terrifying experience on a remote Norwegian archipelago informed his longlisted work.
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Discover the authors and translators on the 2022 International Booker Prize longlist
Read our interviews with the longlistees of 2022’s International Booker Prize
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International Booker Prize Chair Calls for a Share in Profits for Translators
International Booker Prize Chair Calls for a Share in Profits for Translators
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The 2022 International Booker Prize longlist announced
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Paradais
Written in a chilling torrent of prose by one of Mexico’s most thrilling new writers, Paradais explores the explosive fragility of Mexican society
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David Boyd
David Boyd is Assistant Professor of Japanese at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, in the USA