Two of Israel’s foremost novelists have been shortlisted for the £50,000 Man Booker International Prize.
A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossman and Judas by Amos Oz are among six novels vying for the prize, awarded to the best translated work of fiction each year.
The others are Compass by French author Mathias Enard, Norwegian novelist Roy Jacobsen’s The Unseen, Dorthe Nors’ Danish novel Mirror, Shoulder, Signal and Fever Dream by Argentinian author Samanta Schweblin.
A Horse Walks Into a Bar, translated by Jessica Cohen, is an exploration of the relationship between performer and the audience set against the tale of an offensive comedian in Netanya falling apart on stage.
