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Huge congratulaions: Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann, has won the International Booker prize.

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@bookstodon Catch Erpenbeck talking about her prizewinning novel on the @fictionable

https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/jenny-erpenbeck-podcast-sloughing-off-one-skin-go-went-gone-kairos-writing

And read her short story Sloughing Off One Skin, also translated by Michael Hofmann, in our latest edition.

https://www.fictionable.world/stories/sloughing-off-one-skin-jenny-erpenbeck-translated-by-michael-hofmann

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Jenny Erpenbeck opens 2024 with Sloughing Off One Skin, a haunting that explores truth and identity, translated by Michael Hofmann.

https://www.fictionable.world/stories/sloughing-off-one-skin-jenny-erpenbeck-translated-by-michael-hofmann

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@bookstodon Jakub Żulczyk creates a small epic, as Big Barrel goes in search of grub in Many Years of Hardships, translated by John and Małgorzata Markoff.

https://www.fictionable.world/stories/many-years-of-hardships-jakub-zulczyk-translated-by-john-and-malgorzata-markoff

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@bookstodon Grahame Williams charts a life where nothing goes to plan in Making It Happen.

https://www.fictionable.world/stories/making-it-happen-grahame-williams

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@bookstodon While Lauren Caroline Smith tests her faith in The Placing of Hands.

https://www.fictionable.world/stories/the-placing-of-hands-lauren-caroline-smith

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@bookstodon And Rose Rahtz explores the uncanny power of the toddler in Where Hast Thou Been, Sister?

https://www.fictionable.world/stories/where-hast-thou-been-sister-rose-rahtz

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@bookstodon Over on the @fictionable Caroline Lucas argues that in the face of division, we must tell "compelling, inspiring stories about what we can and must achieve together".

https://www.fictionable.world/blogs/caroline-lucas-climate-denial-is-being-weaponised-and-popularised

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@bookstodon And on the @fictionable Jenny Erpenbeck talks about why writers are so suspicious of documents, the trouble with endings and the problem of arbitrary borders.

https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/jenny-erpenbeck-podcast-sloughing-off-one-skin-go-went-gone-kairos-writing

She also talks about her International Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Kairos and recalls what it felt like in when the Wall came down.

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@bookstodon Subscribe for £20 and get all this and a year's more exclusive and from all over the world, as well as access to an ever-expanding archive of stories from writers including Joyce Carol Oates, Ali Smith, Sarah Hall, Alain Mabanckou, Etgar Keret, Diana Evans, Lizzy Stewart and more…

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So here's a little taste of the marvellous from Jenny Erpenbeck, Jakub Żulczyk, Grahame Williams, Lauren Caroline Smith and Rose Rahtz for 2024.

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Portraits of Jenny Erpenbeck, Jakub Żulczyk, Grahame Williams, Lauren Caroline Smith and Rose Rahtz accompany brief readings from their short stories

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@bookstodon With thanks to John Markoff for reading from Żulczyk's story, Many Years of Hardships.

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