Looking back at the #2022InternationalBooker Prize shortlist - 'Elena Knows'

*Content Warning* - the following video contains explicit language which may be offensive to some viewers and/or inappropriate for children.

Find out more about 'Elena Knows', Claudia Piñeiro and Frances Riddle, plus listen to a reading by Helen Schlesinger.

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The International Booker Prize is awarded annually for a single book, translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.

The Booker Prizes exist to reward the finest in fiction. The symmetrical relationship between the Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize ensures that the Booker honours fiction on a global basis: world-class fiction is highlighted by the prizes for English-speaking readers, whether that work was originally written in English (the Booker Prize) or translated into English (the International Booker Prize).

The International Booker Prize began life in 2005 as the Man Booker International Prize. It was initially a biennial prize for a body of work, and there was no stipulation that the work should be written in a language other than English. Early winners of the Man Booker International Prize therefore include Alice Munro, Lydia Davis and Philip Roth, as well as Ismail Kadare and Laszlo Krasznahorkai.

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