Agualusa the longlist of the Man Booker Prize International – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
 

After last year we have included Mia Couto, the longlist of the finalists for the Man Booker International, British literary prize enshrining the best that is in fiction worldwide, returns to contemplate Portuguese language. And this time with two authors – the Angolan José Eduardo Agualusa and Brazilian origin Lebanese Raduan Nassar

The first was chosen for the work General Theory of Forgetfulness (D Quixote, 2012. ), which has earned him in Portugal Fernando Namora Prize in 2013. in this novel, which gives Agualusa his second nomination for the Man Booker International (the first was in 2007 and José Saramago was also on the list), the action begins in Luanda waiting independence, which would come on 11 November 1975 with a Portuguese who decides to build a wall to separate your apartment from the rest of the building where he lives, isolating themselves from the world in the next 30 years. Translation now published in the UK by Harvill Secker is Daniel Hahn.

Raduan Nassar is on the list with A Glass of Rage , a work of 1970 in Brazil was published in 1978 and adapted to the cinema by aluizio abranches in 1999. the book, translated by Stefan Tobler and published by Penguin Modern Classics, tells the story of a couple who, after a night of love, finds himself in complete disharmony.

in a statement published on its site in the early hours of Thursday, the Man Booker Foundation does know that the international award 2016 will be the first to join forces with foreign newspaper fiction the Independent – one book will be chosen annually, receiving a total of 65,000 euros, divided in half between the author and the translator. Among the 13 competitors are, and Agualusa and Nassar, the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk ( The Strangeness in My Mind ), the Italian Elena Ferrante ( History of Lost Girl ) or Japanese Kenzaburo Oe ( Death by Water ).

the jury, headed by Boyd Tonkin, one of the senior’s drafters the Independent , and composed of anthropologist and writer Tahmina Anam, the poet Ruth Padel and by academic David Bellos and Daniel Medin, ensures that the list reflects “the absolute diversity of great fiction that is done today.”

In 2015, this British award – which has been into the hands of authors like Lydia Davis, Philip Roth and Alice Munro – was awarded to the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai

<. em> shortlits the Man Booker International, six authors will be announced on 14 April, a month before the winner is announced, scheduled for May 16.