This year’s ‘unconventional’ list also features the highest-ever number of independent publishers

Mircea Cărtărescu, Hiromi Kawakami and Christian Kracht are among the writers to have made this year’s “unconventional” International Booker longlist.

All 13 writers on the list are nominated for the first time, while one translator, Sophie Hughes, appears for a record-breaking fifth time with her rendering of Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection.