When We Cease to Understand the World
International Booker Prize · 2021 · ShortlistNational Book Award for Translated Literature · 2021 · Shortlist
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| International Booker Prize | 2021 | Shortlist |
| National Book Award for Translated Literature | 2021 | Shortlist |
About This Book
A series of linked stories fusing fact and fiction about scientists—including Fritz Haber, Schwarzschild, and Heisenberg—who made discoveries that transformed the world and destroyed them in the process. Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize.
About the Author
Benjamín Labatut is a Chilean-Dutch author born in Rotterdam in 1980, raised in Chile. His 2020 work *When We Cease to Understand the World*, shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize, blends fiction and nonfiction in unsettling accounts of scientific discovery. He writes in Spanish and has garnered wide international acclaim.
