Olga Tokarczuk was nominated for the British Booker Prize for the third time. This time for “Jacob’s books”

has been nominated for the International Booker three times. In 2018, she won the award for “Biegunów” translated by Jennifer Croft, and in 2019 she was in the final – for the novel “Drive your plow through the bones of the dead” translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.

Olga Tokarczuk was nominated for the Booker Award for the third time. The prize will fight “Jacob Books”

The International Booker Prize is an international literary award established in Great Britain. The prize is awarded to the author of the book translated into English. 50,000 distinctions are shared equally between the author and the translator of the winning novel. announces that the list of six finalists will be announced April 7, and the winners of the award will be announced on May 26, 2022.

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Booker Award 2022. List of nominated novels

List of nominated novels for in 2022:

• Fernanda Melchor – “Paradais”, trans. Sophie Hughes;
• Miely kawakami – “Heaven”, trans. Samuel Bett and David Boyd;
• Sang Young Park – “Love in the Big City”, trans. Anton Hur;
• Norman Erikson Pasaribu – “Happy Stories, Mostly”, trans. Tiffany Tsao;
• Claudia Piñeiro – “Elena Knows” (“Elena Więca / Twoja”), trans. Frances Riddle;
• Violaine Huisman – “The Book of Mother”, trans. Leslie Camhi;
• David Grossman – “More Than I Love My Life”, trans. Jessica Cohen;
• Paulo Scott – “Phenotypes” trans. Daniel Hahn;
• Jon Fosse – “A New Name: Septology VI-VII”, trans. Damion Searls;
• Jonas Eika – “After the Sun”, trans. Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg;
• Bora Chung – “Cursed Bunny”, trans. Anton Hur;
• Geetanjali Shree – “Tomb of Sand”, trans. Daisy Rockwell;
• Olga Tokarczuk – “The Books of Jacob” (“Księgi Jakubowe”), transl. Jennifer Croft.