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Join the six authors and their translators shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024 as they read from and discuss their books with Shahidha Bari.

This year's shortlist is: Not a River by Selva Almada, translated from Spanish by Annie McDermott, published by Charco Press; Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from German by Michael Hofmann, published by Granta Books; The Details by Ia Genberg, translated from Swedish by Kira Josefsson, published by Wildfire Books; Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, translated from Korean by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae, published by Scribe UK; What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, translated from Dutch by Sarah Timmer Harvey, published by Scribe UK; Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated from Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz, published by Verso Fiction.

Shahidha Bari is an academic and broadcaster. She is a professor at the University of the Arts London and presents Front Row and Free Thinking on BBC Radio 4. She’s the author of Dressed: The Philosophy of Clothes, and Look Again: Fashion (Tate, 2022). She is a Trustee of The Brontë Parsonage and a regular books reviewer for The Guardian and the Financial Times.

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