Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk, who scooped last year's Booker International Prize for fiction, was named Tuesday among five female nominees for this year's prestigious literary award.
Six writers in total have been shortlisted for the British-based prize which celebrates the translated English-language versions of novels from around the world.
Tokarczuk, who won the 2018 award with the translation of "Flights", is nominated this year for "Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead".
She is nominated alongside Jokha Alharthi from Oman -- the first shortlisted writer from the Gulf -- France's Annie Ernaux, Marion Poschmann of Germany, Juan Gabriel Vasquez from Colombia and Chile's Alia Trabucco Zeran.
The winner is to be announced in London on May 21.
The 50,000 pound (USD 65,000, 58,000 euro) prize is divided equally between the winning book's author and translator.
"Wisdom in all its forms is here," said historian and author Bettany Hughes, who chairs the judging panel.
"Unexpected and unpredictable narratives compelled us to choose this vigorous shortlist. Subversive and intellectually ambitious with welcome flashes of wit, each book nourishes creative conversation.
"We were struck by the lucidity and supple strength of all the translations."
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