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    International Booker Prize shortlist for 2024 spans three continents

    The International Booker Prize celebrates fiction that's been translated into English. This year's shortlist, announced Tuesday morning, features books in six languages from three continents.
    by Elizabeth Blair Apr 09, 2024 2 minutes
    Source: NPR

    Six languages. Six countries. Three continents. The novels on this year's International Booker Prize shortlist span cultures, styles and the breadth of human experience.

    "Novels carry us to places where we might never set foot and connect us with new sensations and memories," said Eleanor Wachtel, International Booker Prize 2024 Chair of judges in a statement. "Our shortlist opens onto vast geographies of the mind,

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