Andrey Kurkov and Maryse Conde on International Booker Prize list

Author Andrey Kurkov (Alamy/PA)

Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov and acclaimed Guadeloupe-born writer Maryse Conde are among 13 contenders announced for the International Booker Prize for translated fiction.

Kurkov, 61, who has written widely for western publications on Russia’s invasion of his country, is nominated for Jimi Hendrix Live In Lviv, a darkly comic portrait of life in the western Ukraine city.