2021 International Booker Prize longlist

The longlist for this year's International Booker Prize was announced on Tuesday:

At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop, translated from French by Anna Mocschovakis
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez, translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell
The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated from Danish by Martin Aitken, Lolli Editions
I Live in the Slums by Can Xue, translated from Chinese by Karen Gernant & Chen Zeping
In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, translated from Russian by Sasha Dugdale
An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky, translated from German by Jackie Smith
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, translated from Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette
The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili, translated from Georgian by Elizabeth Heighway
The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, translated from Gikuyu by the author
Summer Brother by Jaap Robben, translated from Dutch by David Doherty
The War of the Poor by Éric Vuillard, translated from French by Mark Polizzotti
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut, translated from Spanish by Adrian Nathan West
Wretchedness by Andrzej Tichý, translated from Swedish by Nichola Smalley

The shortlist will be announced on 22 April, and the winner on 2 June. The only book I've read is The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, which was only okay in my opinion.

The Guardian: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o nominated as author and translator in first for International Booker