Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov and acclaimed Guadeloupe-born author Maryse Conde are amongst 13 contenders introduced for the International Booker Prize for translated fiction.

Kurkov, 61, who has written broadly for western publications on Russia’s invasion of his nation, is nominated for Jimi Hendrix Live In Lviv, a darkly comedian portrait of life within the western Ukraine metropolis.

Conde, typically talked about as a attainable Nobel Literature Prize candidate, is nominated for The Gospel According To The New World.

The author, who’s 89 and has misplaced her sight, dictated the novel to her husband and translator Richard Philcox.

The International Booker Prize is awarded yearly to a translated work of fiction printed within the UK or Ireland.

It is run alongside the Booker Prize for English-language fiction.

The longlist of books from 12 nations and 11 languages additionally consists of Whale by Korean creator Cheon Myeong-kwan, Ninth Building by China’s Zou Jingzhi, Standing Heavy by Ivorian author GauZ’ and Pyre by Indian creator Perumal Murugan.

French novelist Leila Slimani, who’s chairing the judging panel, mentioned the books celebrated “literary ambition, panache, originality” and the expertise of literary translators.

Six finalists can be introduced on April 18 and the winner can be revealed on May 23 at a ceremony in London.

The prize was set as much as increase the profile of fiction in different languages – which accounts for less than a small share of books printed in Britain – and to salute the customarily unacknowledged work of literary translators.

The £50,000 purse is cut up between the successful creator and their translator.

Last yr’s winners have been Indian author Geetanjali Shree and American translator Daisy Rockwell for Tomb Of Sand.