With the aid of her translator Marilyn Booth, Jokha Alharthi, the first female Omani writer to be translated into English, also became the first Arab writer to win the prize
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Eleven years after it was published in Poland, Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights, a tale of time, space and the psychology of travelling, translated by Jennifer Crofts, won the International Booker Prize
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Nana Ekvtimishvili
Nana Ekvtimishvili, born in Tbilisi, Georgia, is a writer and film director. Published in 2015, The Pear Field is her first novel
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Alice Thomas Ellis
Alice Thomas Ellis was born in Liverpool, England. She wrote numerous novels and some non-fiction, including cookery books
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Lucy Ellmann
Lucy Ellmann is the daughter of two writers, Richard and Mary Ellman. Her eighth novel, Ducks, Newburyport was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019
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Barry England
Barry England was born in London. His best-known play, Conduct Unbecoming, was a huge success in New York
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Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux was born in Seine-Maritime, France, in September 1940. In October 2022 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
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Mariana Enríquez
Mariana Enríquez was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021. She is a novelist, journalist and short story writer from Argentina
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Jenny Erpenbeck
Winner of the International Booker Prize 2024 for Kairos. Jenny Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967, and is an opera director, playwright and award-winning novelist
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Elena Ferrante
Elena Ferrante was born in Naples. This is all we know about her