A 29-year-old Dutch writer
has become the youngest author to win the International Booker Prize.
A 29-year-old Dutch
writer has become the youngest author to win the International Booker
Prize.
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's The Discomfort of Evening, a dark story about a
devout farming family in a strict Christian community in the rural Netherlands,
was announced as the winner Wednesday.
Under the rules of the
prize, the 50,000-pound ($66,000) award will be split between the author and
translator Michele Hutchison, giving both equal recognition.
Ted Hodgkinson, who chaired
a panel of judges, described the novel as a tender and visceral evocation of a
childhood caught between shame and salvation.
The International
Booker Prize is awarded every year to a book of fiction in any language
that is translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.
The award is separate from
the main Booker Prize, and aims to encourage more publishing and reading of
quality fiction from around the world.
This year the judges
considered 124 books, translated from 30 languages.
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