Everything you need to know about Kairos, winner of the International Booker Prize 2024
As Kairos becomes the first book translated from German to win the International Booker Prize, here’s everything you need to know about the novel
Competition
Win a signed set of the International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist and an instax smartphone printer
As part of our summer series, we’re giving one reader the chance to win a bundle to capture and share your summer reading adventures
To celebrate our summer reading series, we are giving you the chance to win a bundle that allows you to capture and share your summer reading adventures at home, or on the go.
The bundle includes a signed set of the six books that made the International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist, along with an instax Link WIDE smartphone printer and a pack of instax Colour Film WIDE Twin Pack.
The International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist includes:
Not a River by Selva Almada, translated from Spanish by Annie McDermott
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from German by Michael Hofmann (winner of the International Booker Prize 2024)
The Details by Ia Genberg, translated from Swedish by Kira Josefsson
Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, translated from Korean by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae
What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, translated from Dutch by Sarah Timmer Harvey
Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated from Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz
The instax Link WIDE printer is a portable printer that lets you create instax prints direct from your smartphone, as well as print from Instagram, Facebook and compatible Fujifilm X-series cameras. It comes complete with a pack of instax Colour Film WIDE Twin Pack.
To be in with a chance of winning, simply enter your details below by 12:00 BST on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. This competition is open to readers anywhere in the world.
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Our shortlist opens onto vast geographies of the mind, often showing lives lived against the backdrop of history or, more precisely, interweaving the intimate and the political in radically original ways.
Terms and conditions
This competition is a free draw, with only one entry allowed per person, and we reserve the right to disqualify any entries where we suspect one person has used a number of different email addresses. Use or attempted use of any automated or other non-manual entry methods is prohibited.
The draw is governed by our general rules for competitions, available here, but the following specifics also apply (and take precedence should there be any contradiction or ambiguity):
· There will be one winner, selected at random from entries received by 12:00 BST on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Entries received after this time will not be eligible.
· The winner will receive a signed set of six books (Not a River, Kairos, The Details, Mater 2-10, What I’d Rather Not Think About, Crooked Plow), an instax Link WIDE smartphone printer and a pack of instax Colour Film WIDE Twin Pack.
· Entrants must be 18 or over, and we reserve the right to ask for proof of age at any point in the competition; prize-winners should be aware of the adult themes of the books, particularly if sharing it with other readers.
· The competition is open to those resident in or outside the UK subject to the proviso that an entry is not eligible if it is from a resident in a country or jurisdiction where this free draw may breach any local law or regulation.
· The winner will be notified by email no later than 12:00 BST on Wednesday, August 7, 2024, and must promptly provide a fully operative postal address for delivery of their prize. If we have not received this within 7 days of us notifying a winner, we will have no obligation to deliver the prize and at our sole discretion, we may select a further winner to receive the prize concerned or simply decide not to give it.
· We can only undertake to do what is reasonable in all the circumstances to deliver the prize to a location outside the UK.
· Bearing in mind, among other things, the value of the prize itself in relation to cost of delivery, we reserve the right (and this is determined at our sole discretion) to ask a winner to provide an alternative address for delivery to a person/location where the cost is proportionate.
· The winner is responsible for any taxes or duties they may have to pay in order to take receipt of their prize.
· We cannot ship to PO Box addresses; winners are required to provide a bricks-and-mortar/physical address for prize(s) to be dispatched to.
· While we will aim to despatch prizes as soon as possible after the competition has closed, no responsibility can be accepted for entries delayed or lost.
· We are not responsible for any damage to the prize in the course of delivery; while we will consider a request for a replacement (if available) if the prize arrives in a seriously damaged state, this is solely in our discretion depending on the particular circumstances.
· These terms and conditions are governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of England & Wales, and the courts of England & Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction in relation determining any question or issue in relation to them.
· We may in due course and at our sole discretion publicise the names of the winner and their location (in general terms, not specific addresses) on our website and/or social media channels and by entering the competition an entrant agrees to this publicity should they be a prize-winner.
