High-profile nominees on the six-strong shortlist, which was unveiled at the London Book Fair on Thursday, include Mieko Kawakami, the star Japanese author best known for "Breasts and Eggs," and Claudia Piñeiro, the Argentine crime writer
Geetanjali Shree’s “Tomb of Sand,” translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell, which follows an 80-year-old Indian woman’s journey to Pakistan after her husband’s death
LONDON — Olga Tokarczuk, the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist, is among five female writers shortlisted for this year’s International Booker Prize, arguably the world’s most important award for fiction translated into English.
Tokarczuk is nominated for “The Books of Jacob,” along with translator Jennifer Croft, just four years after the pair won the same prize for “Flights.”
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