MOSCOW, May 22. German writer Jenny Erpenbeck won the International Booker Prize for Literature for her novel “Kairos” “, the organizers said.
“The book “Kairos” by Jenny Erpenbeck… has become a laureate of the International Booker Prize 2024,” says a message on the prize's website.
< br />The winner of the award receives a reward of 50 thousand pounds sterling (about 63 thousand dollars). According to the organizers, the author must share the cash prize with the translator of the book, who is the German poet Michael Hofmann.
The Booker Prize appeared in 1968, but has been awarded since 1969. Until 2014, only citizens of Great Britain, Ireland and the countries of the British Commonwealth could become its laureates. Since 2014, the rules have changed, now writers of any nationality have a chance for the prize, the main condition is that the novel must be published in English by an official publisher in the UK in the year the prize was awarded.
The first winner of the prize in 1969 was the British writer Percy Howard Newby, he was awarded for the novel “This Will Have to Account for.” Over the years, Iris Murdoch, Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, William Golding, Margaret Atwood have become finalists for the award.
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