Man Booker International Prize 2018 Shortlist Roundup

Are you on the edge of your seat waiting for the announcement of the 2018 Man Book International Prize winner? Ease back and brush up on the shortlist with reviews and interviews of the translators and nominees.

Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad, trans. Jonathan Wright (Penguin)

A Review of Frankenstein in Baghdad by Rachel S. Cordasco

Interview with translator Jonathan Wright by Lane Ashfeldt

Han Kang, The White Book, trans. Deborah Smith (Portobello Books)

Interview with Hang Kang by Krys Lee

A Contemporary Korean Reading List by Han Kang

Review of The Vegetarian by Colleen Lutz Clemens

Review of Human Acts by Krys Lee  

Virginie Despentes (France), Vernon Subutex 1, trans. Frank Wynne (MacLehose Press)

Review of Vernon Subutex by Jeffrey Zuckerman 

Interview with translator Frank Wynne by Michelle Johnson  

László Krasznahorkai (Hungary), The World Goes On, trans. John Batki, Ottilie Mulzet & George Szirtes (New Directions)

A Review of The World Goes On by Andrew Martino  

Antonio Muñoz Molina (Spain), Like a Fading Shadow, trans. Camilo A. Ramirez (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Review of the Spanish original by Benjamin Bollig

And the English translation by Carson Schatzman