An Irish publisher has been longlisted for this year’s International Booker Prize for only the fourth title it has published.
Bullaun Press, based in Co Sligo, was founded by Bridget Farrell on Inishmore in 2021 with a focus on literature in translation. Its first title in April 2022 was I Am Lewy, Mícheál Ó hAodha’s rendition of Eoghan Ó Tuairisc’s An Lomnochtán (1977).
There’s a Monster Behind the Door by Gaëlle Bélem, translated by Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia Saint-Loubert, was published by Bullaun last October and is now in the running for the £50,000 prize, half of which goes to the author, the other half divided equally between the two translators.
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