International Booker Prize 2023- Eligible Books and My Predictions!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ค. 2024
- Hello, I'm Bob, and with the International Booker Prize coming up in a couple of weeks, here are my (no doubt incorrect) hopes and predictions!
Also, apologies for being slightly spaced out here- I had a horrible cold while filming!
I am deeply grateful to this list and the people who contributed to it for knowing what was eligible! Read more about the books and their translators there! / 176630.international_b...
Video Outline:
00:00 Introduction and IB Eligibility Rules
04:04 Former Winners
05:51 Former Shortlisted/Longlisted Authors
13:00 Publishers- Fitzcarraldo
16:30 Publishers- Tilted Axis Press
18:22 Publishers- 3 Times Rebel
19:18 Publishers- Charco
20:03 Publishers- Peirene
22:01 Other Eligible Books
25:30 My List/Predictions
32:46 End Discussion
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My List/Predictions:
Núria Bendicho- Dead Lands (tr. Maruxa Relaño and Martha Tennent)
Fatima Daas- The Last One (tr. Lara Vergnaud)
Mariana Enriquez- Our Share of Night (tr. Megan McDowell)
Nona Fernández- Space Invaders (tr. Natasha Wimmer)
Jon Fosse- Melancholy I-II (tr. Damion Searls)
Georgi Gospodinov- Time Shelter (tr. Angela Rodel)
Monique Ilboudo- So Distant From My Life (tr. Yarri Kamara)
Han Kang- Greek Lessons (tr. Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won)
Guadalupe Nettel- Still Born (tr. Rosalind Harvey)
Hanne Ørstavik- Ti Amo (tr. Martin Aitken)
Samanta Schweblin- Seven Empty Houses (tr. Megan McDowell)
Amalie Smith- Thread Ripper (tr. Jennifer Russell)
Chinatown- Thuận (tr. Nguyễn An Lý)
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Bob the International Bookerer!
The International Bookerer Bob Award. 🤭
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It’s just me in a turtleneck with a fake moustache, smoking a thin cigarette.
I think it’s time we had a new category
The Bob the Booker Award
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I second this
If you’re ready for a prize that mostly champions either books about the inner lives of Irish women or books with lots of trees, this prize is for you!
Wow, you are SO knowledgable and well-researched! I just love having you on BT and talking about the prizes I love so much! ❤️📚🥰📕
Ahh, you’re too kind, thank you so much! I am almost definitely wrong on my list, but I had fun regardless!
Thank you for this.
My pleasure! I was so wrong in my predictions, but fun to see what could have been there!
i love ur list!
Thank you!
This is great. What a comprehensive look at what might be listed! 📚 Please not Eric Vuillard again! 😩 Although I agree it sounds more interesting than the previous. 😅
Thank you! Ahah, yes! Fingers crossed there isn’t a book like that this year!
Hope all the ones you want make it! It’s not a prize I read all the books for but I am always interested in see what’s listed, very exciting ☺️
Thank you so much! And yeah, trying to dive in and read the whole longlist might finish me off this year, but let’s see 😂
FINALLY!!!! 📝
So many titles that sound so interesting.argh!!
Ahah, I know! It’s a lovely problem to have, but I am drowning!
Thanks, Bob!🌷I’ve recently bought the Dutch version of Melancholy I and II by Jon Fosse. I didn’t know it would be eligible for the Booker International this year. It’s the one together with Time Shelter that I do hope will make the long list.😊📚
Ooh, yes, that’s the funny thing about the timings sometimes- a book just appears on the list even though it’s been kicking around elsewhere for a while. And yes! Fosse is such an interesting author, so I’m happy for the excuse to read more of his.
Great list!
Thank you so much! Almost definitely incorrect, but I like to hope it’s the list!
Big reading months ahead. I will probably get hold of a few of the International Booker longlist, but then there is also the Womens Prize and Stella Prize...I need to become a full time reader.
Yes! And oh my goodness, being full-time would be amazing! I keep forgetting the Stella is round the corner too!
Your guess is probably better than most Bob! I’d love to read the long list but access is an issue from the U.S unless we want to buy and ship a bunch of books which might not even get here for months 😉 I do love Space Invaders and The Twilight Zone, Nona Fernandez’s other translated into English book. I very much feel the same as you about Bitter Orange Tree and have Ghost Town currently on hold as it was up for the PEN translation prize here. I’ve read Of Saints and Miracles and Body Kintsugi and really liked both especially the latter and want to read Our Love of Night but my library has it on order. Other than those I know very little about most of these and so am very much looking to see what gets on the long list even if I can’t get to them before the prize is announced.
Ahh, fingers crossed you can get access to them! I think it’s quite a quick turnaround between longlist and winner, so hopefully we can find them!
So excited for Space Invaders!
Great video and great picks Bob - although there are no limits on the International Booker submissions
Thank you! And ooh, thank you for that- I hadn’t realised, but that’s great news- lots of excellent presses that deserve to submit multiple!
It was great to hear your thoughts on the eligible books!! I feel like Enriquez, Fosse and Zambra have really good shots. I’m curious to see what does make it in the end, and which of those I actually want to pick up haha I might give the longlist a shot as well!! I also love that because of the nature of the book industry, the Booker international effectively serves to highlight cool independent presses 😊
Thank you! And yes, I’m so curious about it- I’m excited to read the longlist this year!
And yes! I love that the longlist ends up being such a champion for weird and wonderful indie presses.
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This year is going to be very interesting!
Yeah! I’m so excited for it- let’s see!
Yah, despite someone (👀) telling me to make a predictions video I will pass. The rules for IB sound too complicated. I just want the longlist.
I hope "Standing Heavy" by French Ivorian Gauz makes the list. Published by Maclehose Press
Oooh, thank you! I’ve not heard of that at all!
I think Our Share Of Night is a shoo-in, otherwise I have no idea.
I hope Ti Amo is longlisted because that’s the only one I own and I’m guaranteed to read at least one before the shortlist.
Yeah, I think it has a good shout!
Yes! I also just want a prize to trick me into finally reading Ørstavik!
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re: Mieko Kawakami **whispers** you're not the only bewildered one lol ;)
Oh thank goodness! I finished it and I was like ‘okay, so they had lots of wild conversations and then it was over’ 😂
Bob, have you read Space Invaders? Will I need to read up on Pinochet and his era to enjoy it?
I’ve not yet, but I really want to! I’m not sure how much history is needed for it, but it seems to be one that lots of people have read without much background.
The engilsh speaking booker? They should change the names, since the international booker could have books from wales or ireland that have been written in those languages, while the "other" booker has books from zimbabwe or india or australia that have been written in english... Also, I am calling that dying is easier than loving is going to make it for the pure fact that it is a 500 page book third in a trilogy I believe.
Yes, exactly! It’s such a misnomer for what it is!
Ahhh, we shall see tomorrow! You’re probably right!
The Very Long Shot Bob The Bookerer Prize!
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The ‘Bob takes a wild guess and hopes for the best’ Prize 😂
would Jennifer Croft's translation from Spanish count as a previous winner, even if she is the translator?
Good question! I think it mostly just counts for the author of the original text, but I wonder if it does have an effect on what is submitted?
Booker Prime? Booker Standard? Booker Regular? Booker Original Formula?
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I *love* ‘Booker Original Formula’! 😂
You're the first to mention Bad Girls (the US name of the queens....)
Ahhh, I’m so keen to finally get around to it. It looks like my kind of thing! I’d love to see something so underground be on the list.
@@BobTheBookerer me too! There are so many books translated from Spanish that aren't mainstream that I would love to see on the list. Jawbone and dogs of summer come to mind.
@@yahaira_f Oooh, Jawbone is one I’ve got my eye on. It sounds so gooood.
What? They haven’t renamed it yet? The Bookerer award sounds so much better 😅
Aha, one day, if I’m very lucky 😂
The question of eligibility for the International Booker (I prefer Translated Booker - the other one takes entries from many different countries) is so tangled! The fact that Jon Fosse is eligible with Melancholy is just weird since I have a copy in English published in 2006 by the Dalkey Archive Press in the US, and the book itself was written in the 90s, so we wouldn’t really be celebrating new fiction, just fiction that the English speaking world ignored for ages!
Yes! It’s odd, right? Yoko Ogawa’s book a couple of years ago had been out in Japan since the 80s too, so it’s a blurred line for when it is translated etc. I found Aliss at the Fire on Scribd, but the US edition, so that would have been eligible for a US prize years ago, but now for the UK. It’s complex for sure!
And yes to ‘Translated Booker’!
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