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Marieke Lucas Rijneveld wins International Booker for The Discomfort of Evening – The Guardian
The 29-year-old Dutch author becomes youngest winner of £50,000 prize, for ‘virtuosic’ debut with translator Michele Hutchison
The 29-year-old Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has become the youngest author ever to win the International Booker prize, taking the award for their visceral and virtuosic debut novel, The Discomfort of Evening.
Rijneveld, whose preferred pronouns are they/them, beat titles including Yko Ogawas The Memory Police and Shokoofeh Azars The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree to win the £50,000 award for the best fiction translated into English, which will be split equally with their translato…
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