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May 24, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Granta Books |Michael Hofmann |Georgi Gospodinov |Angela Rodel
The skies opened on the afternoon of 21 May in London, just ahead of the International Booker Prize 2024 ceremony, this year sponsored by Maison Valentino. The event was at Tate Modern, home to the world’s most exciting contemporary art – a fitting location. The cavernous industrial space offered a welcome reprieve from the evening’s downpour for over 200 guests who hailed from across the cultural sector.
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May 24, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Granta Books |Jenny Erpenbeck |Michael Hofmann
Skip to main content To celebrate Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann, winning the International Booker Prize 2024, we’ve put together a quiz to test your knowledge of classic German texts, recent works of German literature and books set in Germany. Good luck! Written by Emily Facoory Publication date and time: Published May 24, 2024 By Jenny ErpenbeckTranslated by Michael HofmannPublished by Granta Books Kairos is the winner of the International Booker Prize 2024.
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May 22, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Granta Books |Jenny Erpenbeck |Michael Hofmann
Skip to main content Win one of five bundles including a signed copy of this year’s International Booker Prize winner, Kairos, plus a limited-edition, exclusive Booker Prizes tote bag and bookmark Publication date and time: Published May 22, 2024 To celebrate this year’s International Booker Prize winner, Kairos, written by Jenny Erpenbeck and translated from German by Michael Hofmann, we are giving you the chance to win a bundle including a signed copy of the novel and a limited-edition,...
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May 22, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Granta Books |Michael Hofmann |Jenny Erpenbeck
The author and translator discuss the political system which inspired the novel, what being longlisted means to them, and how translated fiction has the power to transport you to other worlds
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May 21, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Granta Books |Jenny Erpenbeck |Michael Hofmann |Romesh Gunesekera
Today, May 21, Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann, is announced as the winner of the International Booker Prize 2024 Publication date and time: Published 21 May 2024 - 22:00 BST‘It’s a private story of a big love and its decay, but it’s also a story of the dissolution of a whole political system.
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May 21, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Granta Books |Jenny Erpenbeck |Michael Hofmann
As Kairos becomes the first book translated from German to win the International Booker Prize, here’s everything you need to know about the novel Publication date and time: Published May 21, 2024 Eleanor Wachtel, Chair of the International Booker Prize 2024 judges said: ‘In luminous prose, Jenny Erpenbeck exposes the complexity of a relationship between a young student and a much older writer, tracking the daily tensions and reversals that mark their intimacy, staying close to the apartments,...
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May 21, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Granta Books |Jenny Erpenbeck |Michael Hofmann
Skip to main content Winner of the International Booker Prize 2024 for Kairos. Michael Hofmann is a poet, reviewer and translator. He has published four books of poems, and Behind the Lines: Pieces on Writing and Pictures. His collection of essays, Where Have You Been? was published by Faber & Faber in February 2015. He has made selections of the poetry of Robert Lowell and John Berryman, and, with James Lasdun, co-edited the influential anthology After Ovid.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Granta Books |Jenny Erpenbeck |Michael Hofmann
How does it feel to be longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024, and what would winning the prize mean to you? Would it also have an impact on literature originating from Germany? I’m very grateful to be nominated – and consider it a great idea to nominate both the author and the translator. My mother was a translator of literature from Arabic into German, so I know how complex this work is, and how rarely the translator gets this kind of well-deserved appreciation.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Granta Books |Jenny Erpenbeck |Michael Hofmann
PrologueWill you come to my funeral? She looks down at her coffee cup in front of her and says nothing. Will you come to my funeral, he says again. Why funeral— you’re alive, she says. He asks her a third time: Will you come to my funeral? Sure, she says, I’ll come to your funeral. I’ve got a plot with a birch tree next to it. Nice for you, she says. Four months later, she’s in Pittsburgh when she gets news of his death.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Granta Books |Jenny Erpenbeck |Susan Bernofsky |Michael Hofmann
Kairos, originally written in German, was the winner of the International Booker Prize 2024.
