Turkish Nobel-winner Orhan Pamuk will compete with pseudonymous Italian Elena Ferrante and Chinese dissident Yan Lianke for prize honouring fiction in translationSix books,set in locations including Istanbul and the Austrian Alps, during periods as mixed as the considerable famine in China and the Angolan civil war, and telling stories of a female friendship in Camorra-controlled Naples and of a Korean wife’s transformative rebellion,have been announced as the finalists for the 2016 Man Booker International prize. Related: Man Booker International 2016 longlist includes banned and pseudonymous authors Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com