29-Year-Old Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld becomes youngest to win International Booker Prize 2020

29-Year-Old Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld becomes youngest to win International Booker Prize 2020

• The International Booker Prize 2020 has been won by Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld for her debut novel ‘The Discomfort of Evening’.
• The novel has been translated from Dutch to English by Michele Hutchison.
• The £50,000 prize ($66,000) will be split equally between the author and translator to give equal recognition to both.
• The 29-year-old Dutch writer Marieke Lucas Rijneveld is the youngest author to win the International Booker Prize
• The International Booker Prize is an international literary award given annually to a book translated to English and published in the UK or Ireland. The award money is divided between the author and the translator.