Nairobi, April 20 -- The 2024 shortlist for the International Booker Prize -the world's most significant award for a single work of translated fiction - has been announced.

It features works from six countries, in six languages, and "interweaves the intimate and political in radically original ways."

The shortlisted books are Not a River, The Details, What I'd Rather Not Think About, Kairos, Mater 2-10, and Crooked Plow.

Not a River, originally in Spanish by Selva Almada and translated by Annie McDermott is the finest expression yet of her compelling style and singular vision of rural Argentina.

Read: Titles to look forward to in 2024

Kairos by German, Jenny Erpenbeck, and translated is an intimate and devastating story of two lovers...