Adania Shibli and Elisabeth Jaquette on Minor Detail
Author Adania Shibli and translator Elisabeth Jaquette speak about the 2021 International Booker Prize-longlisted Minor Detail.
Adania Shibli
Adania Shibli was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2021 for her novel 'Minor Detail'.
She born in Palestine in 1974. Her first two novels appeared in English as Touch and We Are All Equally Far from Love. Shibli was awarded the Young Writer’s Award by the A. M. Qattan Foundation in 2002 and 2004. Touch (2010) was translated by Paula Haydar, and We Are All Equally Far from Love (2012) was translated by Paul Starkey.
…this austerely beautiful novel focuses on one incident in the Palestine/Israeli conflict and casts light on ethnic conflicts, and ethnic cleansing, everywhere.
What the judges said
When nominating Adania Shibli’s book ‘Minor Detail’ for the International Booker Prize in 2021, the judges said:
‘The first part of this devastatingly powerful book gives a laconic account of a shocking crime. In the second, decades later, a woman sets out to comprehend that crime. Set in disputed ground, this austerely beautiful novel focuses on one incident in the Palestine/Israeli conflict and casts light on ethnic conflicts, and ethnic cleansing, everywhere.’
2021 International Booker Prize Chair of judges, Lucy Hughes-Hallett
All nominated books
Adania Shibli's novel 'Minor Detail' was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2021. It is a haunting meditation on war, violence and memory, which cuts to the heart of the Palestinian experience of dispossession. Translated by Elisabeth Jaquette.
