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		</div><p>A novel comprising just eight paragraphs has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.</p>
<p>The shortlist for the £50,000 prize, celebrating the best translated fiction from around the world, was announced digitally because of coronavirus restrictions.</p>
<p>The six books explore <em>“trauma, loss and sweeping illness”</em>.</p>
<p>Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes from Spanish, has just eight paragraphs.</p>
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<p>&mdash; The Booker Prizes (@TheBookerPrizes) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheBookerPrizes/status/1245671313701842945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Each chapter is a single paragraph while one reviewer said it was <em>“littered with profanities”</em>.</p>
<p>It opens with the <em>“gruesome discovery of a murder victim”</em>, but asks,<em>”‘Why?’ rather than ‘Who?’”</em></p>
<p>In <em>“a propulsive translation, the eight paragraphs of this novel spiral down through layers of violence, corruption and desire,”</em> the judges said.</p>
<p>Like two other books on the shortlist – The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa and The Discomfort Of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld – the novel touches on how <em>“trauma, whether through violent acts or emotional loss, shape our experiences and approach to the world”</em>.</p>
<p>Three of the novels – The Enlightenment Of The Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar, The Adventures Of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezon Camara and Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann – have been inspired by their nations’ histories.</p>
<p>The novels celebrate <em>“the pursuit of intellectual freedom, the exploration of sexual identity, and survival in the face of political unrest and sweeping illness,”</em> judges said.</p>
<p>The shortlist features titles translated from Spanish, German, Dutch, Farsi and Japanese.</p>
<p>It was chosen by a panel of five judges and the £50,000 prize is split equally between author and translator.</p>
<p>The winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize was Celestial Bodies by the Omani writer Jokha Alharthi, translated from Arabic by Marilyn Booth.</p>
<p>Last year, Booker prize judges split the prize between two authors, Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/TheBookerPrizes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheBookerPrizes</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/InternationalBooker2020?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#InternationalBooker2020</a> shortlist is out! so proud of this amazing list of books, writers and translators! What an experience this has been, re-reading in totally changed times, and keeping the debate going between Lyon, Bangalore, New York, LA, London, Scotland <a href="https://t.co/fzJttL3pIE">https://t.co/fzJttL3pIE</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Lucie CamposMitchell (@luciecampos) <a href="https://twitter.com/luciecampos/status/1245678197448101890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<h3><strong>The 2020 International Booker Prize Shortlist:</strong></h3>
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<li>The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar<br />
Anonymous translator from Farsi</li>
<li>The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezon Camara<br />
Translated by Iona Macintyre and Fiona Mackintosh from Spanish</li>
<li>Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann<br />
Translated by Ross Benjamin from German</li>
<li>Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor<br />
Translated by Sophie Hughes from Spanish</li>
<li>The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa<br />
Translated by Stephen Snyder from Japanese</li>
<li>The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld<br />
Translated by Michele Hutchison from Dutch</li>
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