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
- Translated Lit
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