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International Booker Prize

23rd May, 2024 International News

International Booker Prize

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Context:

  • Jenny Erpenbeck’s ‘Kairos’ wins the International Booker Prize 2024.

International Booker Prize

●It is an international literary award hosted in the United Kingdom.

●Awarded for: Best work of fiction translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.

●Awarded by: Booker Prize Foundation

●Prize is awarded every year.

●Inaugurated in 2005 as an extension of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, to a single work of fiction or collection of short stories, translated into English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.

●Cash Prize: £50,000 prize for the winning title, shared equally between author and translator.

Source:

https://www.thehindu.com/books/jenny-erpenbecks-kairos-wins-the-international-booker-prize-2024/article68201642.ece

PRACTICE QUESTION

Q. Which of the following international literary awards  inaugurated in 2005, recognizes the best work of fiction translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland?

a) Nobel Prize in Literature
b) International Booker Prize
c) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
d) Costa Book Awards

Answer: b)