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Why you might struggle to find this year’s International Booker winner in UK libraries – and why publishing suffers as a result

As an expert in German and translation, I was pleased to see Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel Kairos win the International Booker Prize 2024, one of the most prominent celebrations of translated literature in the UK. The prize is awarded for a book, and to the people who wrote it: in this…

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‘It was high time I told our stories’: Jenny Erpenbeck on her International Booker winner Kairos

‘It was high time I told our stories’: Jenny Erpenbeck on her International Booker winner Kairos

A pulse-quickening novel about a tempestuous age-gap relationship at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall has won the top prize for translated fiction. The German author and her translator discuss how it entwines the personal and political

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Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck wins the International Booker prize – a chaotic love at the end of times

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck wins the International Booker prize – a chaotic love at the end of times

German writer Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann have won the International Booker prize for the novel Kairos.

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German author Jenny Erpenbeck wins International Booker Prize for tale of tangled love affair

German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann have won the International Booker Prize for the novel “Kairos.”

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Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck wins International Booker prize

Erpenbeck is the first German writer and Michael Hofmann the first male translator to win the £50,000 prize for novel which tells the story of a relationship set against the collapse of East Germany

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International Booker Prize shortlist for 2024 spans three continents

The International Booker Prize celebrates fiction that's been translated into English. This year's shortlist, announced Tuesday morning, features books in six languages from three continents.

Six ‘implicitly optimistic’ novels make the International Booker prize shortlist

From books about disintegrating relationships and countries to a worker’s-eye view of Korea and a story of farmers in Brazil, the selected titles engage with current realities, say the judging panel

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Latin American fiction ‘booms’ again on International Booker prize longlist

Latin American fiction ‘booms’ again on International Booker prize longlist

Works from the continent make up a quarter of this year’s nominees, which include novels from Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil and Peru

The Guardian - UK

Utopia gone wrong: identity and history intersect in Jenny Erpenbeck’s haunting new novel

Utopia gone wrong: identity and history intersect in Jenny Erpenbeck’s haunting new novel

Jenny Erpenbeck’s new novel Kairos, translated by Michael Hofmann, is a story about a relationship between a young woman and an older married man, set against the backdrop of the final years of the German Democratic Republic.

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3 works in translation: History and literature intertwined

3 works in translation: History and literature intertwined

It is easy to act as if fiction and history were separate. But they cannot be completely divided. Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos and Oksana Lutsyshyna's Ivan and Phoebe help readers connect with time past.

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck review – subtle insights into politics and passion

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck review – subtle insights into politics and passion

A love affair in 1980s Berlin mirrors the demise of the socialist dream in the German author’s absorbing fourth novel

The Guardian - UK

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck review – a monumental breakup

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck review – a monumental breakup

The contours of a relationship are echoed by the collapse of East Germany in this invigorating novel of lost love

The Guardian - UK

Here are 19 books our critics are excited for this summer

Here are 19 books our critics are excited for this summer

We asked some of our regular book critics what soon-to-be-published titles they are most looking forward to reading this summer. Here's what they said.

From rampaging teens to female assassins: why has East German culture become so cool?

From rampaging teens to female assassins: why has East German culture become so cool?

Is Britain’s sudden appetite for the GDR an unhealthy obsession? Katja Hoyer, author of Beyond the Wall, examines the new wave of books and shows about life under the Stasi in the vanished state

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Top 10 novels about postwar Germany

Writers from John le Carré to Heinrich Böll and Bernard Schlink explore how the guilt and traumas of war are passed down to succeeding generations

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