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Episode 11 - Man Booker International longlist Reactions

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Join Agnese (Beyond the Epilogue) and I as we react the the Man Booker International longlist for 2019

Mentioned in this episode;

The Longlist

  • Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi (Arabic / Omani) (translated by Marilyn Booth)
  • Love in the New Millennium by Can Xue (Chinese / Chinese), (translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen)
  • The Years by Annie Ernaux (French / French) (translated by Alison L. Strayer)
  • At Dusk by Hwang Sok-yong (Korean / Korean) (translated by Sora Kim-Russell)
  • Jokes for the Gunmen by Mazen Maarouf (Arabic / Icelandic and Palestinian) (translated
  • Four Soldiers by Hubert Mingarelli (French / French) (translated by Sam Taylor)
  • The Pine Islands by Marion Poschmann (German / German) (translated by Jen Calleja)
  • Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin (Spanish / Argentine and Italian) (translated by Megan McDowell)
  • The Faculty of Dreams by Sara Stridsberg (Swedish / Swedish) (translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner)
  • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (Polish / Polish) (translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
  • The Shape of The Ruins by Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Spanish / Colombian) (translated by Anne McLean)
  • The Death of Murat Idrissi by Tommy Wieringa (Dutch / Dutch) (translated by Sam Garrett)
  • The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zeran (Spanish / Chilean and Italian) (translated by Sophie Hughes)

    • Other Mentions

    • Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)
  • Disoriental by Négar Djavadi (translated by Tina Kover)
  • Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants by Mathias Énard (translated by Charlotte Mandell)
  • Animalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo (translated by Frank Wynne)
  • La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono (translated by Lawrence Schimel)
  • Marcel Proust
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena (translated by Margita Gailitis)
  • Familiar Things by Hwang Sok-yong (translated by Sora Kim-Russell)
  • The Vegetarian by Han Kang (translated by Deborah Smith)
  • Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami (translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen)
  • Tokyo Ueno Station by Miri Yū (translated by Morgan Giles)
  • The Last Children of Tokyo by Yōko Tawada (translated by Margaret Mitsutani)
  • The Emissary by Yōko Tawada (translated by Margaret Mitsutani)
  • A Meal in Winter by Hubert Mingarelli (translated by Sam Taylor)
  • Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman (translated by Robert Chandler)
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Fever Dreams by Samanta Schweblin (translated by Megan McDowell)
  • Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez (translated by Megan McDowell)
  • The Last Day by Jaroslavas Melnikas (translated by Marija Marcinkute)
  • Bookish North
  • The S.C.U.M. Manifesto by Valerie Solanas (Society for Cutting Up Men)
  • The Gravity of Love by Sara Stridsberg (translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner)
  • Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Jennifer Croft)
  • Reading in Bed
  • The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Jennifer Croft) – Released in September 2020
  • The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez (translated by Anne McLean)
  • Charco Press
  • Europia Editions
  • Resistance by Julian Fuks (translated by Daniel Hahn)
  • Fish Soup by Margarita García Robayo (translated by Charlotte Coombe)
  • Trout, Belly Up by Rodrigo Fuentes (translated by Elen Jones)
  • Going, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck (translated by Susan Bernofsky)
  • The Impostor by Javier Cercas (translated by Frank Wynne)
  • Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
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