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

May 24, 2024

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German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann won the International Booker Prize for fiction for “Kairos,” .

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck wins International Booker prize 2024

  • About Kairos: It is the story of a tangled love affair during the final years of East Germany’s existence.
  • Perspective on Life in a Defunct Communist Country: Ms. Erpenbeck expressed that the book would help readers understand that life in the now-defunct Communist country was more nuanced than the one portrayed in ‘The Lives of Others’.

International Booker Prize 2024

International Booker Prize: It is awarded every year. It is run alongside the Booker Prize for English-language fiction.

  • The prize recognizes fiction from around the world that has been translated into English and published in the U.K. or Ireland. 
  • The 50,000 pounds ($64,000) in prize money is divided between author and translator.

Indian International Booker Prize Laureate of past:

  • VS Naipaul won the Booker Prize for his book In a Free State in 1971.
  • Salman Rushdie won the Booker Prize for Midnight’s Children in 1981. 
  • Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize for The God of Small Things in 1997.
  • Kiran Desai won the Booker Prize for The Inheritance of Loss in 2006.
  • Aravind Adiga won the Booker Prize for The White Tiger in 2008
    • ‘The Lives of Others’ is the Academy Award-winning 2006 film about extensive state surveillance in the 1980s.
  • Winner 2023: A novel about communism and its legacy in Europe, ‘Time Shelter’ by Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov and translated by Angela Rodel. 

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Jenny Erpenbeck

  • About: Jenny Erpenbeck, 57, was born and raised in East Berlin, which was part of East Germany until the country disappeared with German reunification in 1990. 
  • Ms. Erpenbeck is the first German winner of the International Booker Prize.
    • Mr. Hofmann is the first male translator to win since the prize launched in its current form in 2016. 
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