The International Booker Prize
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Happy Stories, Mostly
Written by Lucy Knight, originally published in Guardian
Mar 10, 2022
Happy Stories, Mostly
Written by Lucy Knight, originally published in Guardian
Mar 10, 2022
Two more titles from Shree’s publishing house Tilted Axis have been selected: Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu and translator Tiffany Tsao, and Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park and translator Anton Hur. The small not-for-profit press mostly publishes Asian writers and was founded in 2015 by Deborah Smith, who translated the Man Booker International prize-winning The Vegetarian by Han Kang. The 2022 longlist, which as usual is dominated by titles from independent presses, is the first time Tilted Axis has had books selected by the prize.
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