International Booker Prize 2026 shortlist announced featuring French witch, sworn virgin

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · Mar 31, 2026 · 429 words

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International Booker Prize 2026 shortlist announced featuring French witch, sworn virgin The organisers of the International Booker Prize announced on Tuesday the 2026 shortlist for the prestigious literary award which recognises works of fiction from around…

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Novels by women writers about a family exiled from Iran, a suburban French witch and an Albanian sworn virgin have made the shortlist for the International Booker Prize, organisers announced Tuesday.

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The prestigious award, to be handed out at a ceremony at London's Tate Modern gallery on May 19, recognises works of fiction from around the world that have been translated into English.

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Claim 1: “The £50,000 ($62,000) prize is split equally between the author and the translator.”

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Claim 2: “Four winners have gone on to become Nobel laureates.”

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Claim 3: “The International Booker Prize 2026 shortlist includes French novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye, winner of the country's top Goncourt prize.”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The International Booker Prize (formerly known as the Man Booker International Prize) is an international literary award hosted in the United Kingdom. The introduction of the International Prize to co…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Booker_Prize

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English writer. He won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 with The Sense of an Ending, having been shortlisted three times previously with Flaubert's Parro…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Marie NDiaye (born 4 June 1967) is a French novelist, playwright and screenwriter. She published her first novel, Quant au riche avenir, when she was 17. She won the Prix Goncourt in 2009. Her play Pa…
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Claim 4: “The other is 'She Who Remains' by award-winning Bulgarian poet and writer Rene Karabash, about a woman who opts to become a 'sworn virgin' – a vanishing Albanian tradition under which a woman renounces marriage and lives as a man.”

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Claim 5: “Novels by women writers about a family exiled from Iran, a suburban French witch and an Albanian sworn virgin have made the shortlist for the International Booker Prize.”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (San Isidro, Buenos Aires, 4 November 1968) is an Argentine writer and journalist. She is considered one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Argentine and Latin Ameri…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Olga Sofia Ravn (born 27 September 1986) is a Danish poet and novelist. She won Denmark's Beatrice Prize in 2019. Her novel The Employees was shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and th…
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Claim 6: “The shortlist also features two debut novels.”

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Claim 7: “The Director, set in the Nazi-controlled film industry, is by bestselling German-Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann, who is known for darkly funny historical novels and is the only male author on the list.”

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Claim 8: “The International Booker Prize is awarded at a ceremony at London's Tate Modern gallery on May 19.”

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Claim 9: “Last year, Indian writer, lawyer and activist Banu Mushtaq won the coveted prize for her short story collection 'Heart Lamp', written in regional language Kannada.”

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Claim 10: “The Nights Are Quiet In Tehran, a saga by German writer Shida Bazyar, is about a family fleeing Iran and then returning decades later.”

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Claim 11: “The books on this year's list feature 'unforgettable characters' and 'reverberate with history', said the chair of the judges, British novelist Natasha Brown.”

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Claim 12: “Brazilian Ana Paula Maia is author of seven novels and has been selected for 'On Earth As It Is Beneath', a horrifying tale of a brutal prison colony in a remote wilderness.”

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Claim 13: “The shortlist includes several established authors.”

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Claim 14: “This is the 10th year that the prize has been awarded in its current form.”

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Claim 15: “Her novel 'The Witch' is about a woman living in the suburbs in the 1990s who passes magical powers on to her daughters.”

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