International Booker Prize

International literary award

Award
International Booker Prize
Inaugural winner Ismail Kadare
Awarded forBest work of fiction translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byBooker Prize Foundation
Reward(s)£50,000
First awarded2005; 19 years ago (2005)
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The International Booker Prize (formerly known as the Man Booker International Prize) is an international literary award hosted in the United Kingdom. The introduction of the International Prize to complement the Man Booker Prize, as the Booker Prize was then known, was announced in June 2004.[1] Sponsored by the Man Group, from 2005 until 2015 the award was given every two years to a living author of any nationality for a body of work published in English or generally available in English translation.[2] It rewarded one author's "continued creativity, development and overall contribution to fiction on the world stage",[3] and was a recognition of the writer's body of work rather than any one title.

Since 2016, the award has been given annually to a single work of fiction or collection of short stories, translated into English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland, with a £50,000 prize for the winning title, shared equally between author and translator.[4][5]

Crankstart, the charitable foundation of Sir Michael Moritz and his wife, Harriet Heyman began supporting The Booker Prizes on 1 June 2019. From this date, the prizes were known as The Booker Prize and The International Booker Prize. Of their support for The Booker Prize Foundation and the prizes, Moritz commented: "Neither of us can imagine a day where we don’t spend time reading a book. The Booker Prizes are ways of spreading the word about the insights, discoveries, pleasures and joy that spring from great fiction".

History

Pre-2016

Whereas the Man Booker Prize was open only to writers from the Commonwealth, Ireland, and Zimbabwe, the International Prize was open to all nationalities who had work available in English including translations.[6] The award was worth £60,000 and given every two years to a living author's entire body of literature, similar to the Nobel Prize for Literature.[3] The Man Booker International Prize also allowed for a separate award for translation. If applicable, the winning author could choose their translators to receive a prize sum of £15,000.[7]

The 2005 inaugural winner of the prize was Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. Praising its concerted judgement, the journalist Hephzibah Anderson noted that the Man Booker International Prize was "fast becoming the more significant award, appearing an ever more competent alternative to the Nobel".[8]

Year Author Country Translator Language Ref.
2005 Ismail Kadare  Albania N/A Albanian [9]
2007 Chinua Achebe  Nigeria N/A English [10]
2009 Alice Munro  Canada N/A English [11]
2011 Philip Roth  United States N/A English [12]
2013 Lydia Davis  United States N/A English [13]
2015 László Krasznahorkai  Hungary George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet Hungarian [14]

2016 onwards

In July 2015 it was announced that the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize would be disbanded.[4] The prize money from that award would be folded into the Man Booker International Prize, which would henceforth act similarly to the Independent prize: awarding an annual book of fiction translated into English, with the £50,000 prize split between author and translator.[15] Each shortlisted author and translator receives £2,500.[16] Its aim is to encourage publishing and reading of quality works in translation and to highlight the work of translators. Judges select a longlist of 12 or 13 books in March (“the Booker Dozen”), followed by a shortlist of six in April,[17] with the winner announced in May.[18]

Year Author Country Translator Country Work Language Ref.
2016 Han Kang  South Korea Deborah Smith United Kingdom The Vegetarian
채식주의자 		Korean [19]
2017 David Grossman  Israel Jessica Cohen Israel/UK/US A Horse Walks Into a Bar
סוס אחד נכנס לבר‎ 		Hebrew [20]
2018 Olga Tokarczuk  Poland Jennifer Croft United States Flights
Bieguni 		Polish [21]
2019 Jokha al-Harthi  Oman Marilyn Booth United States Celestial Bodies
سـيّـدات الـقـمـر، 		Arabic [22]
2020 Marieke Lucas Rijneveld  Netherlands Michele Hutchison United Kingdom The Discomfort of Evening
De avond is ongemak 		Dutch [23]
2021 David Diop  France Anna Moschovakis United States At Night All Blood Is Black
Frère d'âme 		French [24]
2022 Geetanjali Shree  India Daisy Rockwell United States Tomb of Sand
रेत समाधि[25] 		Hindi [26][27]
2023 Georgi Gospodinov  Bulgaria Angela Rodel United Kingdom/ United States Time Shelter
Времеубежище 		Bulgarian [28]

Nominations 2005–2015

2005

The inaugural Man Booker International Prize was judged by John Carey (Chair), Alberto Manguel and Azar Nafisi.[29] The nominees were announced on 2 June 2005 at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.[3] Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare was named the inaugural International Prize winner in 2005.[29] Head judge, Professor John Carey said Kadare is "a universal writer in the tradition of storytelling that goes back to Homer."[29] Kadare said he was "deeply honoured" at being awarded the prize.[29] Kadare was also able to select a translator to receive an additional prize of £15,000.[29] The writer received his award in Edinburgh on 27 June.[29]

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2007

The 2007 prize was judged by Elaine Showalter, Nadine Gordimer and Colm Tóibin.[6] The nominees for the second Man Booker International Prize were announced on 12 April 2007 at Massey College in Toronto.[6] Nigerian author Chinua Achebe was awarded the International Prize for his literary career in 2007.[30] Judge Nadine Gordimer said Achebe was "the father of modern African literature" and that he was "integral" to world literature.[30] Achebe received his award on 28 June in Oxford.[30]

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Nominees

2009

The 2009 prize was judged by Jane Smiley (Chair), Amit Chaudhuri and Andrey Kurkov.[31] The nominees for the third Man Booker International Prize were announced on 18 March 2009 at The New York Public Library.[32] Canadian short story writer Munro was named the winner of the prize in 2009 for her lifetime body of work.[31] Judge Jane Smiley said picking a winner had been "a challenge", but Munro had won the panel over.[31] On Munro's work, Smiley said "Her work is practically perfect. Any writer has to gawk when reading her because her work is very subtle and precise. Her thoughtfulness about every subject is so concentrated."[31] Munro, who said she was "totally amazed and delighted" at her win, received the award at Trinity College Dublin on 25 June.[2][31]

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Nominees

2011

The 2011 prize was judged by Rick Gekoski (Chair), Carmen Callil (withdrew in protest over choice of winner) and Justin Cartwright.[35] The nominees for the fourth Man Booker International Prize were announced on 30 March 2011 at a ceremony in Sydney, Australia.[36] John le Carré asked to be removed from consideration, saying he was "flattered", but that he does not compete for literary prizes.[37] However, judge Rick Gekoski said although he was disappointed that le Carré wanted to withdraw, his name would remain on the list.[37] American novelist Roth was announced as the winner on 18 May 2011 at the Sydney Writers' Festival.[38] Of his win, Roth said "This is a great honour and I'm delighted to receive it."[38] The writer said he hoped the prize would bring him to the attention of readers around the world who are not currently familiar with his body of work.[38] Roth received his award in London on 28 June; however, he was unable to attend in person due to ill health, so he sent a short video instead.[38][39] After Roth was announced as the winner, Carmen Callil withdrew from the judging panel, saying "I don't rate him as a writer at all... in 20 years' time will anyone read him?" Callil later wrote an editorial in The Guardian explaining her position and why she chose to leave the panel.[7][40]

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Nominees

2013

The 2013 prize was judged by Christopher Ricks (Chair), Elif Batuman, Aminatta Forna, Yiyun Li and Tim Parks.[41] The nominees for the fifth Man Booker International Prize were announced on 24 January 2013.[42] Marilynne Robinson was the only writer out of the ten nominees who had been nominated for the prize before.[42] Lydia Davis, best known as a short story writer, was announced as the winner of the 2013 prize on 22 May at a ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.[43] The official announcement of Davis' award on the Man Booker Prize website described her work as having "the brevity and precision of poetry." Judging panel chair Christopher Ricks commented that "There is vigilance to her stories, and great imaginative attention. Vigilance as how to realise things down to the very word or syllable; vigilance as to everybody's impure motives and illusions of feeling."[44]

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Nominees

2015

The 2015 prize was judged by Marina Warner (Chair), Nadeem Aslam, Elleke Boehmer, Edwin Frank and Wen-chin Ouyang.[45] The nominees for the sixth Man Booker International Prize were announced on 24 March 2015.[45] László Krasznahorkai became the first author from Hungary to receive the Man Booker award. The prize was given to recognise his "achievement in fiction on the world stage". British author Marina Warner, who chaired the panel of judges that selected Krasznahorkai for the award, compared his writing to Kafka and Beckett. Krasznahorkai's translators, George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet, shared the £15,000 translators' prize.[46]

Winner
Nominees

Nominations 2016–present

The chair of each year's judging panel is shown in bold text.

2016

The nominees for the seventh Man Booker International Prize were announced on 14 April 2016.[48] The six nominees were chosen from a longlist of thirteen.[49][50] Han became the first Korean author to win the prize and, under the new format for 2016, Smith became the first translator to share the prize. British journalist Boyd Tonkin, who chaired the judging panel, said that the decision was unanimous. He also said of the book "in a style both lyrical and lacerating, it reveals the impact of this great refusal both on the heroine herself and on those around her. This compact, exquisite and disturbing book will linger long in the minds, and maybe the dreams, of its readers."[51]

Award Author Country Translator Title Publisher Judges
Winner Han Kang  South Korea Deborah Smith The Vegetarian
채식주의자 		Portobello Books
Shortlist José Eduardo Agualusa  Angola Daniel Hahn A General Theory of Oblivion
Teoria Geral do Esquecimento		 Harvill Secker
Elena Ferrante  Italy Ann Goldstein The Story of the Lost Child
Storia della bambina perduta		 Europa Editions
Orhan Pamuk  Turkey Ekin Oklap A Strangeness in My Mind
Kafamda Bir Tuhaflık		 Faber & Faber
Robert Seethaler  Austria Charlotte Collins A Whole Life
Ein ganzes Leben		 Picador
Yan Lianke  China Carlos Rojas The Four Books
四書		 Chatto & Windus
Longlist Maylis de Kerangal  France Jessica Moore Mend the Living
Réparer les vivants		 MacLehose Press
Eka Kurniawan  Indonesia Labodalih Sembiring Man Tiger
Lelaki Harimau		 Verso Books
Fiston Mwanza Mujila  Democratic Republic of Congo Roland Glasser Tram 83 Jacaranda Books
Raduan Nassar  Brazil Stefan Tobler A Cup of Rage
Um Copo de Cólera		 Penguin Modern Classics
Marie NDiaye  France Jordan Stump Ladivine MacLehose Press
Kenzaburō Ōe  Japan Deborah Boliver Boehm Death by Water
水死		 Atlantic Books
Aki Ollikainen  Finland Emily Jeremiah & Fleur Jeremiah White Hunger
Nälkävuosi		 Peirene Press

2017

The longlist for the eighth Man Booker International Prize was announced on 14 March 2017, and the shortlist on 20 April 2017. The winner was announced on 14 June 2017.[52][53] Grossman became the first Israeli author to win the prize, sharing the £50,000 award with translator Jessica Cohen. Nick Barley, who is the director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, described the book as "an ambitious high-wire act of a novel [that] shines a spotlight on the effects of grief, without any hint of sentimentality. The central character is challenging and flawed, but completely compelling." The novel won over 126 other contenders.[54]

Award Author Country Translator Title Publisher Judges
Winner David Grossman  Israel Jessica Cohen A Horse Walks into a Bar
סוס אחד נכנס לבר 		Jonathan Cape
Shortlist Mathias Énard  France Charlotte Mandell Compass
Boussole		 Fitzcarraldo Editions
Roy Jacobsen  Norway Don Bartlett & Don Shaw The Unseen
De usynlige		 MacLehose Press
Dorthe Nors  Denmark Misha Hoekstra Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
Spejl, skulder, blink		 Pushkin Press
Amos Oz  Israel Nicholas de Lange Judas
הבשורה על-פי יהודה		 Chatto & Windus
Samanta Schweblin  Argentina Megan McDowell Fever Dream
Distancia de rescate		 Oneworld
Longlist Wioletta Greg  Poland Eliza Marciniak Swallowing Mercury
Guguly		 Portobello Books
Stefan Hertmans  Belgium David McKay War and Turpentine
Oorlog en terpentijn		 Harvill Secker
Ismail Kadare  Albania John Hodgson The Traitor's Niche
Kamarja e turpit		 Harvill Secker
Alain Mabanckou  France Helen Stevenson Black Moses
Petit Piment		 Serpent's Tail
Clemens Meyer  Germany Katy Derbyshire Bricks and Mortar
Im Stein		 Fitzcarraldo Editions
Jón Kalman Stefánsson  Iceland Phil Roughton Fish Have No Feet
Fiskarnir hafa enga fætur		 MacLehose Press
Yan Lianke  China Carlos Rojas The Explosion Chronicles
炸裂志		 Chatto & Windus

2018

The longlist for the ninth Man Booker International Prize was announced on 12 March 2018. The shortlist of six books was announced on 12 April 2018 at an event at Somerset House in London. The winner was announced on 22 May 2018 at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Tokarczuk is the first Polish author to win the award,[55] and shared the prize with Croft.[56] Lisa Appignanesi described Tokarczuk as a "writer of wonderful wit, imagination, and literary panache."[57]

Award Author Country Translator Title Publisher Judges
Winner Olga Tokarczuk  Poland Jennifer Croft Flights
Bieguni 		Fitzcarraldo Editions
Shortlist Virginie Despentes  France Frank Wynne Vernon Subutex 1 MacLehose Press
Han Kang  South Korea Deborah Smith The White Book
흰		 Portobello Books
László Krasznahorkai  Hungary John Batki, Ottilie Mulzet & George Szirtes The World Goes On
Megy a világ		 Tuskar Rock Press
Antonio Muñoz Molina  Spain Camilo A. Ramirez Like a Fading Shadow
Como la sombra que se va		 Tuskar Rock Press
Ahmed Saadawi  Iraq Jonathan Wright Frankenstein in Baghdad
فرانكشتاين في بغداد		 Oneworld
Longlist Laurent Binet  France Sam Taylor The 7th Function of Language
La Septième Fonction du langage		 Harvill Secker
Javier Cercas  Spain Frank Wynne The Impostor
El impostor		 MacLehose Press
Jenny Erpenbeck  Germany Susan Bernofsky Go, Went, Gone
Gehen, ging, gegangen		 Portobello Books
Ariana Harwicz  Argentina Sarah Moses & Carolina Orloff Die, My Love
Matate, amor		 Charco Press
Christoph Ransmayr  Austria Simon Pare The Flying Mountain
Der fliegende Berg		 Seagull Books
Wu Ming-Yi  Taiwan Darryl Sterk The Stolen Bicycle
單車失竊記		 Text Publishing
Gabriela Ybarra  Spain Natasha Wimmer The Dinner Guest
El comensal		 Harvill Secker

2019

The longlist for the Man Booker International Prize was announced on 13 March 2019.[58] The shortlist was announced on 9 April 2019.[59] The winner was announced on 21 May 2019; Jokha Alharthi is the first author writing in Arabic to have won the Man Booker International Prize. Bettany Hughes said of Celestial Bodies that, "We felt we were getting access to ideas and thoughts and experiences you aren’t normally given in English. It avoids every stereotype you might expect in its analysis of gender and race and social distinction and slavery."[60]

Award Author Country Translator Title Publisher Judges
Winner Jokha Alharthi  Oman Marilyn Booth Celestial Bodies
سيدات القمر 		Sandstone Press
Shortlist Annie Ernaux  France Alison L. Strayer The Years
Les Années		 Fitzcarraldo Editions
Marion Poschmann  Germany Jen Calleja The Pine Islands
Die Kieferninseln		 Serpent's Tail
Olga Tokarczuk  Poland Antonia Lloyd-Jones Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych		 Fitzcarraldo Editions
Juan Gabriel Vásquez  Colombia Anne McLean The Shape of the Ruins
La forma de las ruinas		 MacLehose Press
Alia Trabucco Zeran  Chile Sophie Hughes The Remainder
La resta		 And Other Stories
Longlist Can Xue  China Annelise Finegan Wasmoen Love in the New Millenium
新世纪爱情故事		 Yale University Press
Hwang Sok-yong  South Korea Sora Kim-Russell At Dusk
해질무렵		 Scribe
Mazen Maarouf  Palestine
 Iceland		 Jonathan Wright Jokes for the Gunmen
كات للمسلحين		 Granta
Hubert Mingarelli  France Sam Taylor Four Soldiers
Quatre soldats		 Portobello Books
Samanta Schweblin  Argentina Megan McDowell Mouthful of Birds
Pájaros en la boca		 Oneworld
Sara Stridsberg  Sweden Deborah Bragan-Turner The Faculty of Dreams
Drömfakulteten		 MacLehose Press
Tommy Wieringa  The Netherlands Sam Garrett The Death of Murat Idrissi
De dood van Murat Idrissi		 Scribe

2020

The longlist for the prize was announced on 27 February 2020.[61] The shortlist was announced 2 April 2020.[62] The winner announcement was originally planned for 19 May 2020, however due to the COVID-19 pandemic it was postponed to 26 August 2020.[63]

Award Author Country Translator Title Publisher Judges
Winner Marieke Lucas Rijneveld  The Netherlands Michele Hutchison The Discomfort of Evening
De avond is ongemak 		Faber & Faber
Shortlist Shokoofeh Azar  Iran Anonymous The Enlightenment of The Greengage Tree
اشراق درخت گوجه سبز		 Europa Editions
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara  Argentina Iona Macintyre & Fiona Mackintosh The Adventures of China Iron
Las aventuras de la China Iron		 Charco Press
Daniel Kehlmann  Germany Ross Benjamin Tyll Riverrun, Quercus
Fernanda Melchor  Mexico Sophie Hughes Hurricane Season
Temporada de huracanes		 Fitzcarraldo Editions
Yōko Ogawa  Japan Stephen Snyder The Memory Police
密やかな結晶		 Harvill Secker
Longlist Willem Anker  South Africa Michiel Heyns Red Dog
Buys: 'n grensroman		 Pushkin Press
Jon Fosse  Norway Damion Searls The Other Name: Septology I – II
Det andre namnet – Septologien I – II		 Fitzcarraldo Editions
Nino Haratischvili  Georgia
 Germany		 Charlotte Collins & Ruth Martin The Eighth Life
Das achte Leben (Für Brilka)		 Scribe
Michel Houellebecq  France Shaun Whiteside Serotonin
Sérotonine		 William Heinemann
Emmanuelle Pagano  France Sophie Lewis & Jennifer Higgins Faces on the Tip of My Tongue
Un renard à mains nues		 Peirene Press
Samanta Schweblin  Argentina Megan McDowell Little Eyes
Kentukis		 Oneworld
Enrique Vila-Matas  Spain Margaret Jull Costa & Sophie Hughes Mac and His Problem
Mac y su contratiempo		 Harvill Secker

2021

The longlist was announced on 30 March 2021, the shortlist on 22 April, and the winning author and translator on 2 June 2021.[64]

Award Author Country Translator Title Publisher Judges
Winner David Diop  France Anna Moschovakis At Night All Blood Is Black
Frère d'âme 		Pushkin Press
Shortlist Mariana Enríquez  Argentina Megan McDowell The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Los peligros de fumar en la cama		 Granta
Benjamín Labatut  Chile Adrian Nathan West When We Cease to Understand the World
Un verdor terrible		 Pushkin Press
Olga Ravn  Denmark Martin Aitken The Employees
De ansatte		 Lolli Editions
Maria Stepanova  Russia Sasha Dugdale In Memory of Memory
Памяти памяти		 Fitzcarraldo Editions
Éric Vuillard  France Mark Polizzotti The War of the Poor
La Guerre des pauvres		 Picador
Longlist Can Xue  China Karen Gernant & Chen Zeping I Live in the Slums Yale University Press
Nana Ekvtimishvili  Georgia Elizabeth Heighway The Pear Field
მსხლების მინდორი		 Peirene Press
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o  Kenya Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gikuyu and Mumbi
Kenda Mũiyũru: Rũgano rwa Gĩkũyũ na Mũmbi		 Harvill Secker
Jaap Robben  The Netherlands David Doherty Summer Brother
Zomervacht		 World Editions
Judith Schalansky  Germany Jackie Smith An Inventory of Losses
Verzeichnis einiger Verluste		 MacLehose Press
Adania Shibli  Palestine Elisabeth Jaquette Minor Detail
تفصيل ثانوي		 Fitzcarraldo Editions
Andrzej Tichý  Sweden Nichola Smalley Wretchedness
Eländet		 And Other Stories

2022

The longlist was announced on 10 March 2022; the shortlist on 7 April 2022 and the winner on 26 May 2022.[65] Tomb of Sand is the first Hindi-language novel to receive a nomination, and the first novel in an Indian language to win the International Booker Prize.[66]

Award Author Country Translator Title Publisher Judges
Winner Geetanjali Shree  India Daisy Rockwell Tomb of Sand
रेत समाधि 		Tilted Axis Press
Shortlist Bora Chung  South Korea Anton Hur Cursed Bunny
저주토끼		 Honford Star
Jon Fosse  Norway Damion Searls A New Name: Septology VI-VII
Eit nytt namn – Septologien VI – VII		 Fitzcarraldo Editions
Mieko Kawakami  Japan Sam Bett & David Boyd Heaven
ヘヴン		 Picador
Claudia Piñeiro  Argentina Frances Riddle Elena Knows
Elena sabe		 Charco Press
Olga Tokarczuk  Poland Jennifer Croft The Books of Jacob
Księgi Jakubowe		 Fitzcarraldo Editions
Longlist Jonas Eika  Denmark Sherilyn Hellberg After the Sun
Efter solen		 Lolli Editions
David Grossman  Israel Jessica Cohen More Than I Love My Life
אתי החיים משחק הרבה		 Jonathan Cape
Violaine Huisman  France Leslie Camhi The Book of Mother
Fugitive parce que reine		 Scribner
Fernanda Melchor  Mexico Sophie Hughes Paradais
Páradais		 Fitzcarraldo Editions
Sang Young Park  South Korea Anton Hur Love in the Big City
대도시의 사랑법		 Tilted Axis Press
Norman Erikson Pasaribu  Indonesia Tiffany Tsao Happy Stories, Mostly
Cerita-cerita Bahagia, Hampir Seluruhnya		 Tilted Axis Press
Paulo Scott  Brazil Daniel Hahn Phenotypes
Marrom e Amarelo		 And Other Stories

2023

The longlist was announced on 14 March 2023,[67] the shortlist on 18 April 2023,[68] and the winner on 23 May 2023. Gospodinov's Time Shelter was the first Bulgarian-language book to win the prize.[69]

Award Author Country Translator Title Publisher Judges
Winner Georgi Gospodinov  Bulgaria Angela Rodel Time Shelter
Времеубежище 		Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Shortlist Eva Baltasar  Spain Julia Sanches Boulder And Other Stories
Cheon Myeong-kwan  South Korea Chi-Young Kim Whale
고래		 Europa Editions
Maryse Condé  France Richard Philcox The Gospel According to the New World
L'Évangile du nouveau monde		 World Editions
GauZ’  Côte d'Ivoire Frank Wynne Standing Heavy
Debout-payé		 MacLehose Press
Guadalupe Nettel  Mexico Rosalind Harvey Still Born
La hija única		 Fitzcarraldo Editions
Longlist Vigdis Hjorth  Norway Charlotte Barslund Is Mother Dead
Er mor død		 Verso Fiction
Andrey Kurkov  Ukraine Reuben Woolley Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv
Львовская гастроль Джими Хендрикса		 MacLehose Press
Laurent Mauvignier  France Daniel Levin Becker The Birthday Party
Histoires de la nuit		 Fitzcarraldo Editions
Clemens Meyer  Germany Katy Derbyshire While We Were Dreaming
Als wir träumten		 Fitzcarraldo Editions
Perumal Murugan  India Aniruddhan Vasudevan Pyre
பூக்குழி		 Pushkin Press
Amanda Svensson  Sweden Nichola Smalley A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding
Ett system så magnifikt att det bländar		 Scribe
Zou Jingzhi  China Jeremy Tiang Ninth Building
九栋		 Honford Star

2024

The longlist was announced on 11 March 2024, the shortlist on 9 April 2024, while the winner will be revealed on 21 May 2024. The judging panel for this year's prize is chaired by Canadian writer and broadcaster Eleanor Wachtel, and consists of Mojave American poet Natalie Diaz, Sri Lankan British novelist Romesh Gunesekera, South African artist William Kentridge, and American writer, editor and translator Aaron Robertson. On choosing the six shortlisted books, Eleanor Wachtel said, "Our shortlist, while implicitly optimistic, engages with current realities of racism and oppression, global violence and ecological disaster."[70]

Award Author Country Translator Title Publisher Judges
Shortlist Selva Almada  Argentina Annie McDermott Not a River
No es un río		 Charco Press
Jenny Erpenbeck  Germany Michael Hofmann Kairos Granta
Ia Genberg [sv]  Sweden Kira Josefsson The Details
Detaljerna		 Granta
Hwang Sok-yong  South Korea Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae Mater 2-10
철도원 삼대		 Scribe
Jente Posthuma [nl]  The Netherlands Sarah Timmer Harvey What I’d Rather Not Think About
Waar ik liever niet aan denk		 Scribe
Itamar Vieira Junior  Brazil Johnny Lorenz Crooked Plow
Torto Arado		 Verso Books
Longlist Rodrigo Blanco Calderón  Venezuela Noel Hernández González and Daniel Hahn Simpatía Seven Stories Press
Urszula Honek [pl]  Poland Kate Webster White Nights
Białe noce		 MTO Press
Ismail Kadare  Albania John Hodgson A Dictator Calls
Kur sunduesit grinden		 Harvill Secker
Andrey Kurkov  Ukraine Boris Dralyuk The Silver Bone
Самсон и Надежда		 MacLehose Press
Veronica Raimo  Italy Leah Janeczko Lost on Me
Niente di vero		 Virago
Domenico Starnone  Italy Oonagh Stransky The House on Via Gemito
Via Gemito		 Europa Editions
Gabriela Wiener  Peru Julia Sanches Undiscovered
Huaco retrato		 Pushkin Press

See also

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