the Booker Prize Foundation has released its longlist for the 2023 edition of the International Booker Prize. The key point being stressed as this longlist is that a quarter of the list comes from South American authors. Markets represented by those books are Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Venezuela. Independent publishers are in the lead with nine titles.
The focus of this Booker is translation, and its £50,000 prize (US$64,212) is to be split into £25,000 (US$32,106) for the author and £25,000 for the translator—or divided equally between multiple translators.
