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The winner of the Man Booker International Prize is announced in June 2017. Significantly, the $64,000 prize money is divided equally between the author and the translator. In a series of interviews leading up the announcement, 麻豆官网首页入口 Weekend is speaking to the authors and translators of all six shortlisted books.

In this interview Paul Henley talks to the Norwegian author Roy Jacobsen, who wrote 'The Unseen', and one of the English translators of the novel, Don Bartlett.

The interview begins with an extract from the book featuring the main character Hans Barroy, a farmer and fisherman scrabbling to make a living on an island which bears his family name. He lives with his father Martin, his wife Maria, his much younger sister Barbro and his young daughter Ingrid. But island life is difficult and the weather is just one of the many difficulties faced by the family.

(Photo: Roy Jacobsen, left, and Don Bartlett. Credit: MacLehose Press and Don Bartlett)