Swallowing Mercury on Man Booker Longlist

Congratulations to Wioletta Greg and translator Eliza Marciniak! Swallowing Mercury has been longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017. Transit Books will publish Swallowing Mercury in September.

Read the full announcement, along with the other nominated titles:

• Mathias Enard (France), Charlotte Mandell, Compass (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
• Wioletta Greg (Poland), Eliza Marciniak, Swallowing Mercury (Portobello Books)
• David Grossman (Israel), Jessica Cohen, A Horse Walks Into a Bar (Jonathan Cape)
• Stefan Hertmans (Belgium), David McKay, War and Turpentine (Harvill Secker)
• Roy Jacobsen (Norway), Don Bartlett, Don Shaw, The Unseen (Maclehose)
• Ismail Kadare (Albania), John Hodgson, The Traitor's Niche (Harvill Secker)
• Jon Kalman Stefansson (Iceland), Phil Roughton, Fish Have No Feet (Maclehose)
• Yan Lianke (China), Carlos Rojas, The Explosion Chronicles (Chatto & Windus)
• Alain Mabanckou (France), Helen Stevenson, Black Moses (Serpent's Tail)
• Clemens Meyer (Germany), Katy Derbyshire, Bricks and Mortar (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
• Dorthe Nors (Denmark), Misha Hoekstra, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal (Pushkin Press)
• Amos Oz (Israel), Nicholas de Lange, Judas (Chatto & Windus)
• Samanta Schweblin (Argentina), Megan McDowell, Fever Dream (Oneworld)