International Booker Prize’s 2024 Longlist Announced

Booker Prize Foundation has released its longlist for the 2023 edition of the International Booker Prize, APA reports.

The key point being stressed as this longlist, of so many this season, is released is that a quarter of the list comes from South American authors. Markets represented by those books are Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Venezuela. Whether this reveals the “second ‘boom’ in Latin American fiction” the company is positing will be revealed, of course, over time.

Independent publishers are in the lead with nine titles.

The focus of this Booker is translation, and its £50,000 prize (US$64,212) is to be split into £25,000 (US$32,106) for the author and £25,000 for the translator—or divided equally between multiple translators. There also is a purse of £5,000 (US$6,421) for each of the shortlisted titles: £2,500 (US$3,210) for the author and £2,500 for the translator or, again, divided equally between multiple translators.

Since its first recipient was named in 2005—and until 2015 the honor was conferred only every other year—the International Booker Prize has become the world’s leading recognition of its kind, a pace-setting award known for its equal acknowledgment of authors and translators. This prize is also the inspiration for other similar awards, including the United States’ National Book Awards’ Translated Literature category, announced in January 2018 by chair David Steinberger and then-director Lisa Lucas in New York.

The 2024 International Booker Prize Longlist