The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is delighted to announce the three EBRD Literature Prize 2024 finalists. In alphabetical order by author they are:
- The End by Attila Bartis, translated from the Hungarian by Judith Sollosy and published by Archipelago Books
- The Wounded Age and Eastern Tales by Ferit Edgü, translated from the Turkish by Aron Aji and published by the New York Review of Books
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Barcode by Krisztina Tóth, translated from the Hungarian by Peter Sherwood and published by Jantar Publishing.
The finalists were chosen by this year’s independent panel of judges: award-winning writer and critic, Maya Jaggi (chair); novelist and translator, Maureen Freely; and author and professor of international law, Philippe Sands.
I mentioned a while ago that I would change from the International Booker Prize next year to the EBRD prize. I would have read the longlist book this, but I just hadn’t funds after getting the Booker books. But when thew shortlist was announced today, I decided I would get the finalist well I had The End so I ordered the other two and as the winner isn’t ut to June I will read these three. Have you read any of these books ?
I don’t know these titles but I had a friend who worked at the EBRD and I went to the winner’s announcement in 2019. It’s such an interesting concept for what is an essentially financial institution to recognise the importance of literature in all the countries in which it operates.
Yes a good idea for them to promote where they work and art at the same time
I haven’t heard of any of them, but I like the sound of the title Barcode!
I only had the end and that was because I’d read tranquillity by Bartliss last year after I’d had it for a decade or so