What made this year’s Man Booker International winners so damn notable?
The winner for the Man Booker International Prize, literature in translation’s biggest award, was announced on Tuesday as Celestial Bodies by the Omani writer Jokha Alharthi and translated by Marilyn Booth. For… Read more »
This year’s Man Booker Prize International longlist is pretty freaking awesome
The Man Booker Prize, soon to simply be the Booker Prize, has announced the 2019 longlist for its coveted prize for best work of literature in translation. It’s a nifty… Read more »
The Unmanning of the Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize is no more! …in name at least. Before I launch into some thoughts about that, first the remedial info. As reported by the Guardian’s Caroline Davies,… Read more »
Olga Tokarczuk wins this year’s Man Booker International Prize
Tuesday night, the much-anticipated announcement of this year’s Man Booker International Prize winner was made at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. The winner? Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk, for her novel Flights, translated with dazzling finesse… Read more »
The 2017 Man Booker Shortlist is as American as half an apple pie
When we last checked in with the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, feathers had been ruffled. Stiff British feathers. It was 2016, and Paul Beatty, author of The Sellout, had just… Read more »
National Book Foundation to study translation trends in the U.S.
As we’ve discussed on MobyLives before, it is hard to measure the success of translated books in English-speaking countries. Despite endless opinionating and a recent Man Booker study that looked at sales of… Read more »
Eleanor Catton vs. New Zealand
Should an acclaimed, award-winning novelist be free to speak out against her home country’s neoliberal politicians without being told by a radio show host to “stick [her comments] where the… Read more »
Man Booker Prize thinks that pub date is a problem
The Man Booker Prize committee announced new rules yesterday. Nothing quite so drastic as opening the prize up to any novel published in English by a UK publisher, but the… Read more »
Who’s behind the books of the world’s top-grossing films? The answer won’t surprise you.
Lisa Campbell of The Bookseller reported yesterday that “UK books power world’s top-grossing films.” In it, she reveals that 40% of the highest-grossing films since 2001 were adaptions of novels… Read more »
Eleanor Catton wins Man Booker Prize
Eleanor Catton has won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for The Luminaries. At 28, the Canadian-born, New Zealand-bred, Iowa-educated Catton is the youngest author to ever win the award. A 848… Read more »