Shortlisted nominees for international Booker Prize published Automatic translate

CAPE TOWN. At a press conference recently held in the southern capital of South Africa, the Booker Prize organizers unveiled a list of finalists for this season. According to this list, ten writers qualify for the award, none of whom have previously been among Booker winners.

The organizers of the award noted that this season about 80% of the works are works by authors who write non-English, which indicates the growing popularity of the award in other countries of the world. So, among the winners of the international Booker Prize this season were Maris Kond, historian and writer from Guadeloupe, Marlene van Nikerk, South African poet and playwright, Cesar Ira, Argentinean writer and translator, Alain Mabanku, journalist and writer from Congo, Mozambim Liv Mia Couto; al-Koni, Indian Amitav Ghosh, Lebanese Hoda Barakat, Hungarian Laszlo Kraznakhorkai and American poetess Fanny Howie.

On May 19, at the ceremony to be held at the Albert and Victoria Museum in London, the name of the winner of the international Booker 2015 will be known. It is worth noting that this award, established in 2005, is awarded not only to English-speaking writers from Ireland, the UK and the Commonwealth, but also to writers from any country in the world whose works have been translated into English. The prize fund of the award is 60 pounds (118 thousand dollars).

Svetlana Korableva © Gallerix.ru