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German writer Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann have won the International Booker Prize.Their novel Kairos follows the destructive love affair between a 19-year-old student and a married man in his 50s who meet on a bus in East Berlin around 1986.Their relationship comes to embody the German Democratic Republic’s “crushed idealism” and eventual “dissolution of a whole political system”.They will split the £50,000 prize.Judges chose Kairos from a shortlist of six books and praised the “luminous prose” and rich quality of the translation. “It starts with love and passion, but it’s at least as much about power, art and…

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