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.
Date & Time:
17 May 2024, 7:45 pm
Tickets:
£15-£23
Location:
Purcell Room
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Road
London SE1 8XX
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Road
London SE1 8XX
International Booker Prize Shortlist Readings
Date & Time:
17 May 2024, 7:45 pm
Tickets:
£15-£23
Location:
Purcell Room
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Road
London SE1 8XX
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Road
London SE1 8XX
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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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 the story of a depressive brother, viewed from the perspective of the sister who both loves and resents her twin, struggles to understand him, and misses him terribly.
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Mater 2-10
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
International Booker–nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story — an epic, multi-generational tale that threads together a century of Korean history.
Centred on three generations of a family of rail workers and a laid-off factory worker staging a high-altitude sit-in, Mater 2-10 vividly portrays the lives of ordinary Koreans, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing through Liberation, and right up to the twenty-first century. It is at once a gripping account that captures a nation’s longing to be free from oppression, a lyrical folktale that manages to reflect the realities of modern industrial work, and a culmination of Hwang’s career — a masterpiece thirty years in the making.
A true voice of a generation, Hwang shows again why he is unmatched when it comes to depicting the struggles of a divided nation and bringing to life the trials and tribulations of the Korean people.
