Six-book shortlist includes last year’s winner Olga Tokarczuk, Annie Ernaux and Juan Gabriel Vásquez
In an unprecedented gender split, women have dominated the 2019 Man Booker International shortlist, with five female authors and an all-female cast of translators up for the £50,000 prize.
Whittled down from 108 books in 25 languages to six books in five languages – Arabic, French, Spanish, German and Polish – the prestigious award for fiction in translation, split equally between author and translator, has never had so many women shortlisted.
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