{"id":23656,"date":"2018-03-12T14:43:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T18:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=23656"},"modified":"2018-03-12T14:43:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T18:43:30","slug":"2018-man-booker-international-prize-longlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2018\/03\/12\/2018-man-booker-international-prize-longlist\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Man Booker International Prize Longlist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 2018 Man Booker International Prize Longlist<\/h1><\/div>

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Earlier today the longlist for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize was announced. I've read a couple of them and have others on my list. Over at The Mookse and the Gripes Goodreads group, there is already a good amount of discussion (here<\/a>), so I recommend checking the list out and joining in that conversation.<\/p>\n

The Seventh Function of Language<\/strong><\/em>, by Laurent Binet, translated from the French by Sam Taylor
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The Imposter<\/strong><\/em>, by Javier Cercas, translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne
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Vernon Subutex 1<\/strong><\/em>, by Virginie Despentes, translated from the French by Frank Wynne
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Go, Went, Gone<\/strong><\/em>, by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
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The White Book<\/strong><\/em>, by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith
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Die, My Love<\/strong><\/em>, by Ariana Harwicz, translated from the Spanish by Sarah Moses & Carolina Orloff
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The World Goes On<\/strong><\/em>, by L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai, translated from the Hungarian by John Batki, Ottilie Mulzet & George Szirtes
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Like a Fading Shadow<\/strong><\/em>, by Antonio Mu\u00f1os Molina, translated from the Spanish by Camilo A. Ramirez
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The Flying Mountain<\/em><\/strong>, by Christoph Ransmayr, translated from the German by Simon Pare
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Frankenstein in Baghdad<\/strong><\/em>, by Ahmed Saadawi, translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright
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Flights<\/strong><\/em>, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft
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The Stolen Bicycle<\/em><\/strong>, by Wu Ming-Yi, translated from the\u00a0Chinese by Darryl Sterk
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The Dinner Guest<\/strong><\/em>, by Gabriela Ybarra, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
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Judges:<\/p>\n

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  • Lisa Appignanesi OBE (Chair)<\/li>\n
  • Michael Hofmann<\/li>\n
  • Hari Kunzru<\/li>\n
  • Tim Martin<\/li>\n
  • Helen Oyeyemi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>
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    The longlist for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize has been announced!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"none","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"[]","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[798],"tags":[],"coauthors":[505],"class_list":["post-23656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MBI-2018-Featured-Image.jpg?fit=700%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-69y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23659,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23656\/revisions\/23659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23656"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}