Marieke Lucas wins International Booker

A 29-year-old, Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has won the 2020 International Booker Prize for her debut novel “The Discomfort of Evening”, a story of childhood grief.

She is the youngest author to win the prestigious prize. Rijneveld shares the prize of 50,000 pounds(about $66,000)with Michele Hutchinson, who translated it from Dutch to English.

Rijneveld’s book was an acclaimed bestseller in the Netherlands in 2018. 

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News source: The Guardian

Update by Sumedha Das