Jenny Erpenbeck and Michael Hofmann win the 2024 International Booker Prize
German writer Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann have been awarded the 2024 International Booker Prize for their novel, Kairos.
The prize, which is awarded annually to a single work of translated fiction, was announced at a ceremony in London on Tuesday 12 April.
Kairos is a novel about a love affair between a younger woman and an older man in 1980s Germany. It is Erpenbeck's first novel to be translated into English, and it has been praised for its "lyrical prose" and "deeply moving" story.
Erpenbeck is one of Germany's most acclaimed writers, and her work has been translated into more than 20 languages. She is the author of several novels, short stories, and essays, and she has received numerous awards for her work, including the Heinrich Boll Prize and the Thomas Mann Prize.
Hofmann is a British poet, translator, and editor. He has translated the work of many German writers, including Bertolt Brecht, Hermann Hesse, and W.G. Sebald. He has also published several volumes of his own poetry, and he has received numerous awards for his work, including the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
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