The longlist includes:
- The first nominations for books originally written in Bulgarian, Catalan and Tamil
- A wife and husband author-translator team
- Works originating in 12 countries
- The oldest writer ever to be nominated for the prize, aged 89
- One of Ukraine’s best-known writers, who has vowed to stop writing in Russian
- A film director, four poets, two former security guards - and a writer who had declared himself ‘dead’
- Elements of Korean fairy tale, French horror, Caribbean gospel, Indian melodrama, Scandinavian saga - and East Germany’s answer to Trainspotting thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/international/2023
