Vincenzo Latronico

2 weeks ago | alessandria.today | Vincenzo Latronico |Sophie Hughes |Max Porter |Anton Hur

The International Booker Prize shortlist has just been announced, and we wanted to highlight some key facts we think will be of interest: ·         Italian author Vincenzo Latronico features on the shortlist with his novel Perfection, alongside British translator Sophie Hughes.

2 weeks ago | publishersweekly.com | Sophia Stewart |Vincenzo Latronico |Sophie Hughes |Banu Mushtaq

The six-book shortlist for the 2025 International Booker Prize has been announced. The £50,000 annual prize, split equally between author and translator, recognizes fiction from around the world that has been translated into English and published in the U.K. and/or Ireland. The winner will be announced on May 20 at a ceremony at the Tate Modern in London.

2 weeks ago | thehindu.com | Vincenzo Latronico |Sophie Hughes |Banu Mushtaq

Kannada writer Banu Mushtaq’s story collection Heart Lamp is among the six books featured in this year’s International Booker Prize shortlist announced on Tuesday (April 8, 2025). Heart Lamp, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, is a collection of 11 short stories written by Banu Mushtaq between 1990 and 2023. Earlier, an English translation of a collection of her short stories Haseena and Other Stories won English PEN translation award for the year 2024. That was also translated by Deepa Bhasthi.

4 weeks ago | asymptotejournal.com | Vincenzo Latronico |Sophie Hughes

Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, translated from the Italian by Sophie Hughes, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2025In the early 2010s, a specific gastronomic corner of the internet flourished alongside the rise of the Instagram aesthetic; food blogging evolved beyond sites run by home cooks from around the world, and social media brought its democratization to full swing. I too was among the converted.

1 month ago | indianprinterpublisher.com | IPP Desk |Vincenzo Latronico |Sophie Hughes |Christian Kracht

The International Booker Prize 2025 recently announced its longlist. The longlist of 13 books – 11 novels and two collections of short stories – was chosen by the 2025 judging panel, chaired by Booker Prize-longlisted author Max Porter. The other judges are: poet, director and photographer Caleb Femi; writer and publishing director of Wasafiri Sana Goyal; author and International Booker Prize-shortlisted translator Anton Hur; and singer-songwriter Beth Orton.