English edition of author Nino Kharatishvili's epic in shortlist for Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
The 900-plus-page novel has been described as "a landmark epic" in a review for The Guardian. Screenshot from video by The Booker Prizes.
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Author Nino Kharatishvili's award-winning epic The Eighth Life (for Brilka) has been shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, an annual award aiming to boost women's voices in literature enjoyed by British and Irish readers.
Awarded major honours like Germany's Bertolt Brecht Prize and Anna Seghers Prize, and selected for this year's International Booker Prize as one of the "finest translated fiction from around the world", the novel is now one of seven works in the British prize selection.
The Eighth Life is in contention for the £1,000 award after its translation into English and unveiling to readers in a series of literary events in London last year. Translated from German by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin, and published by Scribe UK, the novel was called "a landmark epic" in a review for The Guardian.
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The longlist for 2020 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation (@warwicktss) has just been announced.
Learn more about the books, the authors and translators as well as the history and aim of the prize:https://t.co/WxCKYl2G5Z pic.twitter.com/chocS6HNe4
In the review, the newspaper's Maya Jaggi spoke of "echoes down the generations, from the thwarted dreams of dancers and poets to devastated loves, and passion between women" in the 900-plus-page "harrowing" work by Kharatishvili.
The seven entrants for the Warwick Prize have been picked out of over 130 entries. A jury team of Amanda Hopkinson, Boyd Tonkin and Susan Bassnett will judge the shortlisted works for the ultimate winner, to be unveiled on November 26 in an online ceremony.
In his comments on the selection, Tonkin said the "outstanding shortlist" took readers on "an epic journey across cultures from Finland to Sudan, and from Malaysia to Georgia" while also honouring "a wide span of genres, from a young-adult novella to a multi-generational saga".
The full selection for the prize can be viewed on the University of Warwick official website.