International Booker Prize 2024
The novel Kairos, written by Jenny Erpenbeck and translated from German by Michael Hofmann (Granta), has won the £50,000 (A$95,325) International Booker Prize.
Kairos was chosen from a shortlist of six by a judging panel that included writer and broadcaster Eleanor Wachtel (chair), poet Natalie Diaz, Booker Prize–shortlisted novelist Romesh Gunesekera, artist William Kentridge, and writer, editor and translator Aaron Robertson.
The International Booker Prize is awarded to a book translated into English, with the prize money shared equally between the winning writer and translator.
Kairos has been reviewed by QRC. Click here to read our review.