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Everything you need to know about the International Booker Prize

Everything you need to know about the International Booker Prize

by Sophie Olejnik | May 24, 2023 | Library, The International Booker Prize

What is the International Booker Prize? The International Booker Prize is awarded annually for a single fiction book from around the world, translated into English and published in the UK and Ireland. The Booker Prizes recognise the finest work in fiction, whether...
Time Shelter: Book about Alzheimer’s wins International Booker Prize 2023

Time Shelter: Book about Alzheimer’s wins International Booker Prize 2023

by Maddy Burgess | May 24, 2023 | Mind, The International Booker Prize

Time Shelter, written by Georgi Gospodinov and translated by Angela Rodel, has won the International Booker Prize 2023, making it the first novel originally published in Bulgarian to win.  The winner was announced last night at a ceremony at Sky Garden in London, with...
POLL: Are you happy with the winner of the International Booker Prize?

POLL: Are you happy with the winner of the International Booker Prize?

by Sophie Olejnik | May 24, 2023 | Library, The International Booker Prize

Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel won the International Booker Prize yesterday for Time Shelter, a hard-hitting comedy about the dangerous appeal of nostalgia. But did the best book win? Have your say in our poll below: Read BLOT’s...
Who won last year’s International Booker Prize?

Who won last year’s International Booker Prize?

by Arthur Barratt | May 22, 2023 | Library, The International Booker Prize

Ahead of the announcement of the 2023 International Booker Prize winner tomorrow, May 23, BLOT has taken a look back at the book, and the author behind it, that was lucky enough to win last year. The 2022 International Booker Prize was won by Tomb of Sand, written by...
Interview with Julia Sanches: Translator of International Booker Prize shortlisted book Boulder

Interview with Julia Sanches: Translator of International Booker Prize shortlisted book Boulder

by Maddy Burgess | May 22, 2023 | Identity, longer reads, The International Booker Prize

Ahead of the International Booker Prize winner announcement tomorrow, BLOT Magazine sat down with Julia Sanches, translator of the shortlisted book Boulder, to talk about all things translation.  Julia Sanches is a literary translator working from Portuguese, Spanish,...
Everything you need to know about the International Booker Prize

The history of The International Booker Prize

by Sophie Olejnik | May 22, 2023 | Library, The International Booker Prize

The International Booker Prize is awarded annually for a single fiction book from around the world, translated into English and published in the UK and Ireland. The Booker Prizes recognise the finest work in fiction, whether that work was originally written in English...
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