Here's the 2020 International Booker Prize shortlist

The story of the International Booker Prize longlist was the number of small presses represented.

The story of the shortlist? The near-record youth of one of its members.

Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, age twenty-eight, isn’t the youngest writer to be nominated for any of the Booker prizes — that honor goes to Daisy Johnson, who was twenty-seven when she was shortlisted for the Booker, as the Guardian observes.

But like Johnson, Rijneveld accomplished this feat with a debut novel.

We’ll see if the story of the International Booker victory is that of a millennial’s first novel emerging triumphant on May 19.

The remaining contenders for the £50,000 ($64,400) prize, which is split amongst the author and translator or translators, are:

• The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, written by Shokoofeh Azar and translated by Anonymous from Farsi.

• The Adventures of China Iron, written by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara and translated by Iona Macintyre and Fiona Mackintosh from Spanish.

• Tyll, written by Daniel Kehlmann and translated by Ross Benjamin from German.

• Hurricane Season, written by Fernanda Melchor and translated by Sophie Hughes from Spanish.

• The Memory Police, written by Yōko Ogowa and translated by Stephen Snyder from Japanese.

• The Discomfort of Evening, written by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and translated by Michele Hutchison from Dutch.