Here's the 2021 International Booker Prize shortlist

The shortlist for the 2021 International Booker Prize was revealed Thursday.

Judges again noted the dominance of small publishers, one of which was a first-time inclusion on the shortlist, in a statement praising the nominees as "revolutionary in form, in content and in point of view."

Here is the shortlist; the winning book will be announced June 2. 

• At Night All Blood is Black, written by David Diop and translated from French by Anna Mocschovakis

• The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, written by Mariana Enríquez and translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell

• When We Cease to Understand the World, written by Benjamín Labatut and translated from Spanish by Adrian Nathan West

• The Employees, written by Olga Ravn and translated from Danish by Martin Aitken

• In Memory of Memory, written by Maria Stepanova and translated from Russian by Sasha Dugdale

• The War of the Poor, written by Éric Vuillard and translated from French by Mark Polizzotti

The £50,000 ($64,400) prize is split amongst the author and translator or translators.

You can watch the announcement video below or on the Booker Prize website.