We are delighted that A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding by Amanda Svensson (trans. Nichola Smalley) has been longlisted for the 2023 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation!
The prize is judged by Amanda Hopkinson, Boyd Tonkin and Susan Bassnett. The judges said of the 2023 longlist:
“From an exceptionally rich field of submissions we have chosen 16 remarkable books in first-rate translations. All of them deserve to find delighted readers everywhere.
Our contemporary picks span a dazzling rainbow of genres, cultures and voices - from an Egyptian graphic novel to a Vietnamese vision of migrant life in France; a Chinese fable of an alternative Hong Kong to a comic-epic Swedish novel of ideas; a Mexican musical elegy to a Yemeni documentary testament to the human costs of war.
But this year’s long list also honours a formidable cache of rediscovered gems from major 20th-century women writers: classic works given new life by the translator’s time-defying art.”
The shortlist will be announced in mid-November, and the winner will be announced at an award ceremony at The Shard in London on the evening of Thursday 23 November.
Congratulations to Amanda, Nicky, and all the longlisted titles!
For more information, please visit the prize website here.
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
A joyful family saga about free will, forgiveness, and how we are all interconnected.
In October 1989, triplet babies are born into chaos in a Swedish hospital. Over two decades later, the siblings are scattered around the world, barely speaking. Sebastian is in London working for a mysterious scientific organisation and falling in love. Clara has travelled to Easter Island to join a doomsday cult. And the third triplet, Matilda, is in Sweden, practising being a stepmother. Then something happens that forces them to reunite. Their mother calls with worrying…
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
Are we free to create our own destinies or are we just part of a system beyond our control?
A joyful family saga about free will, forgiveness, and how we are all interconnected.
In October 1989, a set of triplets is born, and it is this moment their father chooses to reveal his affair. Pandemonium ensues.
Over two decades later, Sebastian is recruited to join a mysterious organisation, the London Institute of Cognitive Science, where he meets Laura Kadinsky, a patient whose inability to see the world in three dimensions is not the only thing about her that…
Nichola Smalley
Nichola Smalley is a translator of Swedish and Norwegian literature.…
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Amanda Svensson
Amanda Svensson grew up in Malmö. She studied creative writing and has…
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