Man Booker International Prize Longlist

The Man Booker International Prize is given to a book in English translation, with a £50,000 prize for the winning title, to be shared equally between author and translator.  Its aim is to encourage more publishing and reading of quality works in translation.

Last week the longlist was released:

Title; Author (Country); Translator

Compass; Mathias Enard (France); Charlotte Mandell

Swallowing Mercury; Wioletta Greg (Poland); Eliza Marciniak

A Horse Walks into a Bar; David Grossman (Israel); Jessica Cohen

War and Turpentine; Stefan Hertmans (Belgium); David McKay

The Unseen; Roy Jacobsen (Norway); Don Bartlett and Don Shaw

The Traitor’s Niche; Ismail Kadare (Albania); John Hodgson

Fish Have no Feet; Jon Kalman Stefansson (Iceland); Phil Roughton

The Explosion Chronicles; Yan Lianke (China); Carlos Rojas

Black Moses; Alain Mabanckou (France); Helen Stevenson

Bricks and Mortar; Clemens Meyer (Germany); Katy Derbyshire

Mirror, Shoulder, Signal; Dorthe Nors (Denmark); Misha Hoekstra

Judas; Amos Oz (Israel); Nicholas de Lange

Fever Dream; Samanta Schweblin (Argentina); Megan McDowell

For more information about the books, go to http://themanbookerprize.com/international.

The shortlist will be announced on April 20 and the winner, June 14.