Media. News and press releases from across Man Group.

12 March 2019
The Man Booker International Prize has today, Wednesday 13 March, revealed the ‘Man Booker Dozen’ of 13 novels in contention for the 2019 prize, which celebrates the finest works of translated fiction from around the world.
The prize is awarded every year for a single book, which is translated into English and published in the UK. Both novels and short-story collections are eligible. Authors and translators are considered to be equally important, with the £50,000 prize being split between them. In addition, each shortlisted author and translator will receive £1,000. The judges considered 108 books.
The 2019 longlist is as follows:
Author (Original Language – Country/territory) | Translator | Title (imprint) |
---|---|---|
Jokha Alharthi (Arabic / Oman) |
Marilyn Booth | Celestial Bodies (Sandstone Press Ltd) |
Can Xue (Chinese / China) |
Annelise Finegan Wasmoen | Love In The New Millennium (Yale University Press) |
Annie Ernaux (French / France) |
Alison L. Strayer | The Years (Fitzcarraldo Editions) |
Hwang Sok-yong (Korean / South Korea) |
Sora Kim-Russell | At Dusk (Scribe, UK) |
Mazen Maarouf (Arabic / Iceland and Palestine) |
Jonathan Wright | Jokes For The Gunmen (Granta, Portobello Books) |
Hubert Mingarelli (French / France) |
Sam Taylor | Four Soldiers (Granta, Portobello Books) |
Marion Poschmann (German / Germany) |
Jen Calleja | The Pine Islands (Profile Books, Serpent's Tail) |
Samanta Schweblin (Spanish / Argentina and Italy) |
Megan McDowell | Mouthful Of Birds (Oneworld) |
Sara Stridsberg (Swedish / Sweden) |
Deborah Bragan-Turner | The Faculty Of Dreams (Quercus, MacLehose Press) |
Olga Tokarczuk (Polish / Poland) |
Antonia Lloyd-Jones | Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead (Fitzcarraldo Editions) |
Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Spanish / Colombia) |
Anne McLean | The Shape Of The Ruins (Quercus, MacLehose Press) |
Tommy Wieringa (Dutch / The Netherlands) |
Sam Garrett | The Death Of Murat Idrissi (Scribe, UK) |
Alia Trabucco Zeran (Spanish / Chile and Italy) |
Sophie Hughes | The Remainder (And Other Stories) |
The longlist was selected by a panel of five judges, chaired by Bettany Hughes, award-winning historian, author and broadcaster, and is made up of writer, translator and chair of English PEN Maureen Freely; philosopher Professor Angie Hobbs; novelist and satirist Elnathan John and essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra.
‘This was a year when writers plundered the archive, personal and political. That drive is represented in our longlist, but so too are surreal Chinese train journeys, absurdist approaches to war and suicide, and the traumas of spirit and flesh. We’re thrilled to share 13 books which enrich our idea of what fiction can do.’ The shortlist of six books will be announced on 9 April at an event at Somerset House in London, and the winner of the 2019 prize will be announced on 21 May at a dinner at the Roundhouse in London.
The Man Booker International Prize was originally established thanks to the generous extension of funding given by the Man Group. The 2019 prize marks the final highlight of their successful 18-year sponsorship of the prizes. The Trustees of the Booker Prize Foundation announced on 28 February that Crankstart, the charitable foundation of Michael Moritz KBE and his wife, Harriet Heyman, will be the new supporter of the Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize from 1 June 2019. Crankstart has committed to an initial five-year exclusive funding term with an option to renew for a further five years. From June the original prize will once again be known as The Booker Prize, while the prize for literature in translation will become The International Booker Prize.
www.themanbookerprize.com I @ManBookerPrize I #MBI2019 #FinestFiction
You are now exiting our website
Please be aware that you are now exiting the Man Group website. Links to our social media pages are provided only as a reference and courtesy to our users. Man Group has no control over such pages, does not recommend or endorse any opinions or non-Man Group related information or content of such sites and makes no warranties as to their content. Man Group assumes no liability for non Man Group related information contained in social media pages. Please note that the social media sites may have different terms of use, privacy and/or security policy from Man Group.