Six titles were nominated for this year’s International Booker Prize, the prestigious award for fiction translated into English. (The author and the translator split the prize money.)

The best-known nominee is Jenny Erpenbeck, a German novelist often mentioned as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Other authors include Itamar Vieira Junior, Selva Almada and Hwang Sok-yong.

From nytimes.com 10 April 2024