We are delighted that Jessica Gaitán Johannesson's debut novel How We Are Translated has been longlisted for the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize, which is awarded to the most outstanding first novel of the past 12 months.
15 April, 2021
How We Are Translated longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2021
The Desmond Elliott Prize is run by the National Centre for Writing as the flagship in its Early Career Awards portfolio. The shortlist will be announced on 1 June and the winner will be announced on 1 July. For more information and to see the other longlisted authors, visit the National Centre for Writing website.
Congratulations to Jess and all the other longlisted authors!
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How We Are Translated
LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE
Do you ever feel like you’re not speaking the same language?
Swedish immigrant Kristin won’t talk about her pregnancy. Her Brazilian-born Scottish boyfriend Ciaran won’t speak English at all; he is trying to immerse himself in a språkbad or ‘language bath’, covering their Edinburgh apartment in post-it notes to teach himself Swedish.
As this young couple is forced to confront the thing that they are both avoiding, they must reckon with the bigger questions of the world outside, and their places in it.
