{"id":28723,"date":"2021-03-30T11:04:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T15:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=28723"},"modified":"2021-03-30T11:04:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T15:04:27","slug":"2021-international-booker-prize-longlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2021\/03\/30\/2021-international-booker-prize-longlist\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 International Booker Prize Longlist"},"content":{"rendered":"

2021 International Booker Prize Longlist<\/h1><\/div>

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  • I Live in the Slums <\/em><\/strong>by\u00a0<\/em>Can Xue, translated from Chinese by Karen Gernant & Chen Zeping<\/li>\n
  • At Night All Blood is Black <\/em><\/strong>by\u00a0<\/em>David Diop, translated from French by Anna Mocschovakis<\/li>\n
  • The Pear Field<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>by Nana Ekvtimishvili, translated from Georgian by Elizabeth Heighway<\/li>\n
  • The Dangers of Smoking in Bed<\/em><\/strong> by Mariana Enr\u00edquez, translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell<\/li>\n
  • When We Cease to Understand the World <\/em><\/strong>by Benjam\u00edn Labatut, translated from Spanish by Adrian Nathan West<\/li>\n
  • The Perfect Nine: The Epic Gikuyu and Mumbi <\/em><\/strong>by Ngugi wa Thiong’o, translated from Gikuyu by the author<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>
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    • The Employees<\/em><\/strong> by Olga Ravn, translated from Danish by Martin Aitken<\/li>\n
    • Summer Brother<\/em><\/strong> by Jaap Robben, translated from Dutch by David Doherty<\/li>\n
    • An Inventory of Losses<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>by Judith Schalansky, translated from German by Jackie Smith<\/li>\n
    • Minor Detail <\/em><\/strong>by Adania Shibli, translated from Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette<\/li>\n
    • In Memory of Memory<\/em><\/strong> by Maria Stepanova, translated from Russian by Sasha Dugdale<\/li>\n
    • Wretchedness<\/em><\/strong> by Andrzej Tich\u00fd, translated from Swedish by Nichola Smalley<\/li>\n
    • The War of the Poor<\/em><\/strong> by \u00c9ric Vuillard, translated from French by Mark Polizzotti<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>
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      This morning, the longlist for the 2021 International Booker Prize was announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28724,"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":"","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-28723","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\/2021\/03\/2021-International-Booker-Prize.jpg?fit=700%2C368&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-7th","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28723","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=28723"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28728,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28723\/revisions\/28728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28723"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=28723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}