Join us as we announce the winners of The 2020 International Booker Prize for Fiction in translation. BBC’s Razia Iqbal hosts the virtual celebration. We also head to the Horniman Museum and Gardens to hear from International Booker Prize Administrator, Fiammetta Rocco and Chair of the Booker Prize Foundation, Mark Damazer, as well as Chair of the 2020 judges Ted Hodgkinson.
We celebrate our six shortlisted novels, authors and translators:
· The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar written in Farsi, translated by Anonymous, published by Europa Editions
· The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara written in Spanish, translated by Iona Macintyre and Fiona Mackintosh, published by Charco Press
· Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann written in German, translated by Ross Benjamin, published by Quercus
· Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor written in Spanish, translated by Sophie Hughes, Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions
· The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa written in Japanese, translated by Stephen Snyder, published by Harvill Secker
· The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld written in Dutch, translated by Michele Hutchison, published by Faber & Faber
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The International Booker Prize is awarded annually for a single book, translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.
The Booker Prize exist to reward the finest in fiction. The symmetrical relationship between the Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize ensures that the Booker honours fiction on a global basis: world-class fiction is highlighted by the prizes for English-speaking readers, whether that work was originally written in English (the Booker Prize) or translated into English (the International Booker Prize).
The International Booker Prize began life in 2005 as the Man Booker International Prize. It was initially a biennial prize for a body of work, and there was no stipulation that the work should be written in a language other than English. Early winners of the Man Booker International Prize therefore include Alice Munro, Lydia Davis and Philip Roth, as well as Ismail Kadare and Laszlo Krasznahorkai.
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