The International Booker Prize for the year 2020 has been awarded to Marieke Lucas Rijneveld for The Discomfort of Evening.
The 29-year-old Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has become the youngest author ever to win the International Booker prize.
Rijneveld won the £50,000 award for the best fiction translated into English, which will be split equally with their translator, Michele Hutchison.
A bestseller in the Netherlands, The Discomfort of Evening follows Jas, a girl in a devout Christian farming family, whose brother dies in an accident after she wishes he would die instead of her rabbit.
The International Booker Prize is given annually to a book translated to English and published in the UK or Ireland. The award money is divided between the author and the translator. In 2019, this was awarded to Jokha Alharthi for Celestial Bodies, translated by Marilyn Booth.
(Source: Indian Express and The Gurdian)
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