2018 Man Booker International Prize Shortlist

The Man Booker International Prize announced their 6-title shortlist — shortened from their 13-title longlist. The prize, which awards translated works of literature, considers both novels and short story collections translated into English and published in the UK.

Here the 2018 shortlist (with bonus links where available):

• Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes
• The White Book by Han Kang
• The World Goes On by László Krasznahorkai (our review of Krasznahorkai’s collection)
• Like a Fading Shadow by Antonio Muñoz Molina (Molina’s book was one of most anticipated books’s of 2017)
• Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi (Saadawi’s 2017 Year in Reading entry)
• Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

The winner of the Man Booker International Prize will be announced on May 22, 2018.