The longlist has been released for the International Booker Prize. A shortlist will be unveiled April 8 and the winner named May 20. The winning author and translator share £50,000 (about $63,265), while shortlisted titles are each awarded £5,000 (about $6,325) to split between authors and translators.
This year's longlisted books were translated from Arabic, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Romanian and Spanish. Banu Mushtaq's Heart Lamp is the first book nominated for the IBP that was originally written in Kannada, the first language of some 38 million people, which is spoken predominantly in southern India. The longlisted titles are:
A Leopard-Skin Hat by Anne Serre (French), translated by Mark Hutchinson
On a Woman's Madness by Astrid Roemer (Dutch), translated by Lucy Scott
Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq (Kannada), translated by Deepa Bhasthi
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico (Italian), translated by Sophie Hughes
Eurotrash by Christian Kracht (Swiss), translated by Daniel Bowles
Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami (Japanese), translated by Asa Yoneda
Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa (Japanese), translated by Polly Barton
Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix (French), translated by Helen Stevenson
Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda (Mexican), translated by Julia Sanches & Heather Cleary
Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu (Romanian), translated by Sean Cotter
There's a Monster Behind the Door by Gaëlle Bélem (French), translated by Karen Fleetwood & Laëtitia Saint-Loubert
On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle (Danish), translated by Barbara J Haveland
The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem (Palestinian), translated by Sinan Antoon