The longlist has been released for the International Booker Prize. A shortlist will be announced April 9 and the winner May 21. The winning author and translator share £50,000 (about $64,050), while shortlisted titles are each awarded £5,000 (about $6,405) to split between authors and translators.
This year's longlisted books were translated from Albanian, Dutch, German, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. The longlisted titles are:
The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk
Simpatía by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, translated by Noel Hernández González & Daniel Hahn
Not a River by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott
Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener, translated by Julia Sanches
White Nights by Urszula Honek, translated by Kate Webster
Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, translated by Sora Kim-Russell Youngjae & Josephine Bae
What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey
Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated by Johnny Lorenz
The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone, translated by Oonagh Stransky
Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo, translated by Leah Janeczko
A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare, translated by John Hodgson
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann
The Details by Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson