Literary Awards

Just how global is the 2019 Man Booker International Prize longlist of translated fiction?

It’s not so much the individual hits and misses as the fact that large parts of the world are not represented. Are translated books from those areas so poor?

Sana Goyal
· Mar 17, 2019 · 10:30 am
Journalist and author Raghu Karnad wins $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prize

Karnad won the prize in the non-fiction category for his book, ‘Farthest Field’, about India’s role in World War II.

Scroll Staff
· Mar 14, 2019 · 07:24 am
Behrouz Boochani wrote his novel in text messages. Now he has won Australia’s biggest literary prize

A refugee and asylum-seeker, the Kurdish journalist and film-maker wrote his book as a political memoir of what he calls Manus Prison.

Keyvan Allahyari, The Conversation
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Paul Rae, The Conversation
· Feb 05, 2019 · 05:30 pm

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