Today’s the day when we’ll find out the inaugural winner of the Man Booker International Prize in its new incarnation. But first, we have a shadow winner to announce.
It was close – extremely close. After our initial round of voting, Marie NDiaye’s Ladivine narrowly missed out on a place in the run-off vote…
…and, in the final vote, Kenzaburō Ōe’s Death by Water came a close second…
…but our shadow winner is:
The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith
This means that, following last year’s IFFP result, this could be the second year running in which the shadow and official winners coincide. Given how much I love The Vegetarian, I actually hope it will be. Only a few more hours to wait…
Read my other posts on the 2016 Man Booker International Prize here.
16th May 2016 at 10:36 am
Lets wait and see the final results!! I have to read the Vegetarian soon