Latin American authors on rise in International Booker prize lists
Today’s boom in Latin American literature is spearheaded by women, from Fernanda Melchor, Mariana Enriquez to Samanta Schweblin, who engage with femicide, trauma and violence through horror and speculative fiction
Six ‘implicitly optimistic’ novels make the International Booker prize shortlist
From books about disintegrating relationships and countries to a worker’s-eye view of Korea and a story of farmers in Brazil, the selected titles engage with current realities, say the judging panel
Maryse Condé, Guadeloupean 'grand storyteller' dies aged 90
Author of novels drawing on African and Caribbean history enjoyed international acclaim, including the New Academy prize, which stood in for the Nobel in 2018
March 2024
Translated fiction roundup
The best translated fiction – review roundup
From the Guardian archive
Alexanderplatz: Berlin’s Ulysses – archive, 1974
Before the Queen Falls Asleep by Huzama Habayeb review – a memory palace built in exile
AI translation: how to train ‘the horses of enlightenment’
Latin American fiction ‘booms’ again on International Booker prize longlist
Butter by Asako Yuzuki review – a tasty exposé of fatphobia and trauma
‘An act of betrayal’: Gabriel García Márquez’s son on publishing his father’s work against his will
The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr review – literary erasure
Book of the day
Until August by Gabriel García Márquez review – a ‘lost’ last novel
Book of the day
The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr; The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft – review
Book of the day
The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft review – eight translators lost in a forest
February 2024
Vladivostok Circus by Elisa Shua Dusapin review – friends, high flyers and fallout
Change by Édouard Louis review – the revenge of Eddy
January 2024
Book of the day
My Heavenly Favourite by Lucas Rijneveld review – a transgressive tour de force
‘When I was 21 it was already too late’: an extract from Change by Édouard Louis
Ædnan by Linnea Axelsson review – an Arctic epic from Sweden
