Tag Archives: Man Booker International Prize

Finding the monster ‘Frankenstein in Baghdad’ by Ahmed Saadawi

Posted on May 1, 2019 by

Mary’s Shelly’s ‘Frankenstein‘ tells of a monster created by a hubristic scientist out of scavenged, beautiful body parts in a doomed attempt to demonstrate human ingenuity.  The result was an abomination who has nonetheless gone on to capture the hearts … Continue reading →

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Musings on Time and Space: ‘Flights’ by Olga Tokarczuk

Posted on May 2, 2018 by

With its beautiful stark blue cover, the Fitzcarraldo Edition of ‘Flights’ doesn’t give away much about the book’s content.  The blub, starting with the sentence ‘Flights, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk’s … Continue reading →

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First read from the Man Booker International Prize longlist: ‘The Impostor’ by Javier Cercas

Posted on March 23, 2018 by

It’s that time of year again: the Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist was announced (16 books and the only one I’ve read so far is The Ministry of Utmost Happiness), followed immediately by the Man Booker International Prize longlist (13 … Continue reading →

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The Man Booker International Prize Shortlist

Posted on June 1, 2017 by

In 2015, ‘The Vegetarian‘ by Han Kang (translated by Deborah Smith) was one of my top reads of the year.  In 2016, it was rightly awarded the (newly reorganised) Man Booker International Prize.  In honour of those judges getting it … Continue reading →

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