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Winner of the International Booker Prize 2024 in Conversation

Join the just-announced winning author and translator of the International Booker Prize 2024, Jenny Erpenbeck and Michael Hofmann for the first event after their win, an evening of discussion at Foyles Charing Cross Road.

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Winners of the International Booker Prize 2024, Jenny Erpenbeck & Michael Hofmann

The International Booker Prize celebrates the world’s best fiction in translation. Awarded annually for a single book, the prize celebrates the integral work of translators, with the £50,000 prize money divided equally between author and translator. This is the London-exclusive event with the 2024 winning author and translator, who will explore the themes raised in Kairos, their award-winning work, the process of translation, and their International Booker Prize experience.

Jenny Erpenbeck was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1967. While working as an opera director, she debuted with her novel The Old Child & The Book of Words (2008). Her other books include Visitation (2010), The End of Days (2014, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the precursor to the International Booker Prize), and Go, Went, Gone (2017, longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2018), as well as Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections (2020). Her work has been translated into over 30 languages.

Michael Hofmann is a poet, reviewer and translator. He has translated the work of several German authors, including Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth and Hans Fallada. He is the winner of several literary prizes, including the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 1995 for the translation of his father’s novel, The Film Explainer. Since 1993 he has held a part-time teaching position at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He was a judge for the International Booker Prize in 2018, the year Jenny Erpenbeck was first longlisted for the prize (for Go, Went, Gone, translated by Susan Bernofsky). In 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

This event will be chaired by Fiammetta Rocco, the Administrator of the International Booker Prize. The discussion will be followed by a book signing. Doors will open from 6:45pm.

Tickets: £8 General Admission Venue: The Auditorium (Level 6) at Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road Please note that the Auditorium at Foyles is fully accessible from the Ground floor lifts.

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