Latin American fiction ‘booms’ again on International Booker prize longlist

Spotlighting novels from Argentinia, Venezuela, Brazil and Peru, works from the continent make up a quarter of this year’s nominees

The International Booker longlist signals a “second ‘boom’ in Latin American fiction”, said judges, with a quarter of the nominated authors being South American.

Argentinian poet Selva Almada, Venezuelan writer Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, Brazilian writer Itamar Vieira Junior and Peruvian journalist Gabriela Wiener have all been longlisted for the prize, which recognises the best novels and short story collections from around the world that have been translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland.