Mieko Kawakami's novel "Heaven" won't win the English Booker Prize

The Booker Prize, the translation category of the most prestigious literary prize in the UK, the Booker Prize, was announced, and the work of an Indian author was awarded.

Mieko Kawakami's novel "Heaven", which was selected as the final candidate, was not awarded.

The organization that hosts the most prestigious Booker Prize in the UK announced the Booker Prize in London on the 26th, and the "Toom of Sand" by Indian author Gitanjari Shree was selected. ..

Akutagawa Prize-winning author Mieko Kawakami's novel "Heaven" was also selected as the final candidate, but it did not win the award.

The Booker Prize, the translation category of the Booker Prize, was created in 2005, and the 2018-winning Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk has since won the Nobel Prize in Literature.