Most of the books entered in the Man Booker Prize came from Europe, according to analysis from David Bellos.
The researchers looked at the geographic distribution of submissions for this year’s prize, which honors books translated into English and found the predominance of European entries. Check it out:
Some of the books do come from the Far East, Africa and South America, but the overall shape of ‘global fiction’ delineated by the entries for this contest leans heavily towards the languages of western and northern Europe.
Follow this link to explore an infographic of the data.