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Two Scribe titles shortlisted for The International Booker Prize 2024

Scribe are thrilled to share that two of our books have been shortlisted for this year's International Booker Prize!

Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong (trans. Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae) and What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma (trans. Sarah Timmer Harvey) are both in contention for the prestigious prize awarded annually for a single book, translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.

Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors and translators! 

The winner will be announced at a ceremony on 21 May. For more information about the prize and the other shortlisted titles, please visit The Booker Prize website here.

Mater 2-10

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

International Booker–nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story — an epic tale that threads together a century of Korean history.

In contemporary Seoul, a laid-off worker stages a months-long sit-in atop a sixteen-storey factory chimney. During the long and lonely nights, he talks to his ancestors, chewing on the meaning of life, on wisdom passed down the generations.

Through the lives of those ancestors, three generations of railroad workers, Mater 2-10 vividly portrays the struggles of ordinary Koreans, starting from the…

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What I’d Rather Not Think About

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without them?

This question lies at the heart of Jente Posthuma’s deceptively simple What I’d Rather Not Think About. The narrator is a twin whose brother has recently taken his own life. She looks back on their childhood, and tells of their adult lives: how her brother tried to find happiness, but lost himself in various men and the Bhagwan movement, though never completely.

In brief, precise vignettes, full of gentle melancholy and surprising humour, Posthuma tells…

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