KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 5 -- Malaysian writer and translator Pauline Fan has been named one of six winners of the inaugural PEN Presents x International Booker Prize programme for her English translation of The Last Days of Jesselton, originally written in Malay.

The award, jointly launched by English PEN and the Booker Prize Foundation in 2024, supports translators from the Global Majority and aims to address longstanding underrepresentation in the UK publishing landscape.

"These six samples are stunningly different in voice and style and theme, and stunningly alike in their brilliance," said Will Forrester, Head of Literature Programmes at English PEN.

"They speak to why English PEN and the Booker Prize Foundation have partnered on this ...