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The Man Booker International Prize 2017

The Man Booker International Prize is awarded here in the UK for the best novel translated into English in the past year and gives equal recognition to the writer and translator of the winning book. On Weekend, we are featuring all six of the shortlisted books and speak to their authors and translators.

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Let the nominations for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 inspire you
Man Booker International Shortlist 2017: A Horse Walks Into A Bar

Israeli writer David Grossman and translator Jessica Cohen on their shortlisted novel
Man Booker International Shortlist 2017: Compass

French writer Mathias Enard and translator Charlotte Mandell on their shortlisted novel
Man Booker International Shortlist 2017: Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

Danish writer Dorthe Nors and translator Misha Hoekstra talk about the shortlisted novel
Man Booker International Shortlist 2017: Judas

Israeli author Amos Oz and translator Nicholas de Lange talk about the shortlisted novel
Man Booker International Shortlist 2017: The Unseen

Norwegian author Roy Jacobsen and translator Don Bartlett talk about the shortlisted novel
Man Booker International Shortlist 2017: Fever Dream

Author Samanta Schweblin and translator Megan McDowell talk about the shortlisted novel.
The Man Booker International - Six Life Lessons

Discover wise advice for life through the writing of the Man Booker prize nominees
Man Booker Shortlist: Giving Up Meat In South Korea

Man Booker-shortlisted Korean writer Han Kang on vegetarianism and family collapse.
Man Booker Shortlist: Elena Ferrante On Using A Pseudonym

Man Booker International Shortlist: Elena Ferrante on writing under a pseudonym
Man Booker Shortlist: Translating Elena Ferrante

Ann Goldstein on translating Italian writer Elena Ferrante
Man Booker Shortlist: Elena Ferrante's Naples

Weekend visits Naples, home city of Booker-shortlisted novelist Elena Ferrante.
Man Booker Shortlist: Pamuk On The Life Of A Yoghurt Seller

Orhan Pamuk's book A Strangeness In My Mind explores the changing faces of Istanbul
Man Booker Shortlist: Translating Nobel Laureate Pamuk

Pamuk's translator is Ekin Oklap, a young woman who has never translated a novel before.
Man Booker Shortlist: Seethaler Captures Life, Love And Loneliness In The Alps

Robert Seethaler's Booker-shortlisted novel shows death is an integral part of life
Man Booker Shortlist: New writing From Angola

Jose Eduardo Agualusa's A General Theory Of Oblivion is set during the Angolan Civil War
Man Booker Shortlist: Yan Lianke on China's re-education camps

Chinese writer Yan Lianke on China's Great Leap Forward
Man Booker Shortlist: Translating Censored Chinese Writer Yan Lianke

We hear from the translator of The Four Books, by Chinese writer Yan Lianke