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Jun 27, 2024 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Ia Genberg
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. New York. HarperVia. 2023. 144 pages. In her first novel to be translated into English, Ia Genberg delivers a lesson on how to effectively tackle the primordial questions about human relationships and their impact on one’s perception of self.
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May 24, 2024 | 
indiatodayne.in | Selva Almada |Jenny Erpenbeck |Ia Genberg |Hwang Sok-yong
The book is about the aftermath of a twin's suicide through the eyes of the surviving sister. The novel navigates themes of love, resentment, and loss.
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Apr 20, 2024 | 
newindianexpress.com | Ia Genberg |Rahul Singh
Ia Genberg’s 2022-Swedish novel The Details, which has been shortlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize, is a moving portrait of loss, grief and remembrances. Translated by Kira Josefsson, the book is divided into four parts, each with a character that ties themselves to the protagonist—the woman writing about them. It begins on a daunting note of a virus causing fever, and the writer being “followed by an urge to return to a particular novel”.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Selva Almada |Annie McDermott |Ia Genberg |Kira Josefsson
The six books on the shortlist have been chosen by the 2024 judging panel: broadcaster and journalist Eleanor Wachtel, as chair; award-winning poet Natalie Diaz; internationally acclaimed novelist Romesh Gunesekera; groundbreaking visual artist William Kentridge; and writer, editor and translator Aaron Robertson.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
l8r.it | Selva Almada |Jenny Erpenbeck |Ia Genberg |Hwang Sok-yong
On Monday 11th March, the longlist for the International Booker Prize was announced. This is the world's most significant award for a single work of translated fiction and this year's longlist signals a second "boom" in Latin American fiction with a quarter of the list written by South American authors.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Selva Almada |Daniel Hahn |Ia Genberg |Urszula Honek
From fresh voices to previous winners, here’s everything you need to know about the 13 books in contention for this year’s International Booker Prize Written by Paul Davies Publication date and time: Published March 11, 2024Once again, it’s time to add 13 new titles to your to-be-read list, as the International Booker Prize 2024 longlist is announced. The 13 books chosen by this year’s judges represent the very best in translated fiction, published in the English language in the UK and Ireland.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Selva Almada |Ia Genberg |Andrey Kurkov |Jente Posthuma
Wondering which of the 13 International Booker Prize 2024 longlisted titles to read first? We asked our judges to summarise each book – and say what they loved about them Publication date and time: Published March 11, 2024Over the past few months, the International Booker Prize 2024 judges have read almost 150 works of fiction from around the world that have been translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland, gradually whittling them down to a longlist of just 13 titles.
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Mar 10, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Ia Genberg |Jenny Erpenbeck |Ismail Kadare |Veronica Raimo
The judges’ selection features ‘books that speak of courage and kindness, of the vital importance of community, and of the effects of standing up to tyranny’, according to Fiammetta Rocco, Administrator of the International Booker Prize A quarter of the list is written by South American authors, with books representing Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Venezuela The longlisted books are translated from ten original languages: Albanian, Dutch, German, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian,...
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Ia Genberg |Kira Josefsson
Watch Dua Lipa read an extract from The Details What the International Booker Prize 2024 judges said‘Ia Genberg writes with a remarkably sharp eye about a series of messy relationships between friends, family and lovers. Using, as she says, “details, rather than information”, she gives us not simply the “residue of life presented in a combination of letters” but an evocation of contemporary Stockholm and a moving portrait of her narrator.
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Aug 5, 2023 | 
tinyurl.com | Catherine Lacey |Ia Genberg |Kira Josefsson
FictionIn Ia Genberg’s “The Details,” the unnamed narrator spends the duration of an illness reflecting on her bygone relationships. Aug. 5, 2023, 5:00 a.m. ETTHE DETAILS, by Ia Genberg. Translated by Kira Josefsson.
