Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
British literary award (1990–2015)
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The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (1990–2015) was a British literary award. It was inaugurated by British newspaper The Independent to honour contemporary fiction in translation in the United Kingdom. The award was first launched in 1990 and ran for five years before falling into abeyance. It was revived in 2001 with the financial support of Arts Council England. Beginning in 2011 the administration of the prize was taken over by BookTrust, but retaining the "Independent" in the name. In 2015, the award was disbanded in a "reconfiguration" in which it was merged with the Man Booker International Prize.[1]
Entries (fiction or short stories) were published in English translation in the UK in the year preceding the award by a living author. The prize acknowledged both the winning novelist and translator, each being awarded £5,000 and a magnum of champagne from drinks sponsor Champagne Taittinger.
Winners, shortlists and longlists
1990
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title Original title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Orhan Pamuk |  Turkey |
Turkish | Victoria Holbrook | The White Castle Beyaz Kale |
1991
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title Original title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Milan Kundera |  Czechia France |
Czech | Peter Kussi | Immortality Nesmrtelnost |
1992
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title Original title |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Simon Leys |  Belgium |
French | Patricia Clancy | The Death of Napoleon La Mort de Napoléon |
[2] |
| Shortlist | Slavenka Drakulić |  Croatia | Croatian | Ellen Elias-Bursać | Holograms of Fear Hologrami straha | |
| Paweł Huelle |  Poland | Polish | Antonia Lloyd-Jones | Who Was David Weiser? Weiser Dawidek | ||
| Yaşar Kemal | Turkey | Turkish | Thilda Kemal | To Crush the Serpent Yılanı Öldürseler | ||
| Ivan Klíma | Czechia | Czech | A. G. Brain | Judge on Trial Soudce z milosti | ||
| Dacia Maraini |  Italy | Italian | Dick Kitto Elspeth Spottiswood | The Silent Duchess La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa | ||
| Carlo Mazzantini | Italy | Italian | Simonetta Wenkert | In Search of a Glorious Death A cercar la bella morte | ||
| Érik Orsenna | France | French | Jeremy Leggatt | Love and Empire L'Exposition coloniale | ||
| Giorgio Pressburger | Italy | Italian | Piers Spence | The Law of White Spaces La legge degli spazi bianchi | ||
| Jean Rouaud | France | French | Ralph Manheim | Fields of Glory Les Champs d'honneur | ||
| Leonardo Sciascia | Italy | Italian | Joseph Farrell Marie Evans | The Knight and Death Il cavaliere e la morte | ||
| Antonio Tabucchi | Italy | Italian | Tim Parks | Vanishing Point Il filo dell'orizzonte |
1993
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title Original title |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | José Saramago |  Portugal |
Portuguese | Giovanni Pontiero | The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis |
[3] |
| Shortlist | Juan Goytisolo |  Spain | Spanish | Helen Lane | Makbara | |
| Günter Grass |  Germany | German | Ralph Manheim | The Call of the Toad Unkenrufe | ||
| Ismail Kadare |  Albania | Albanian | Barbara Bray (translation from French) | The Palace of Dreams Pallati i ëndrrave | ||
| Ivan Klíma | Czechia | Czech | Paul Wilson | My Golden Trades Moje zlatá řemesla | ||
| A. B. Yehoshua |  Israel | Hebrew | Hillel Halkin | Mr. Mani מר מאני |
1994
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title Original title |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Bảo Ninh |  Vietnam |
Vietnamese | Frank Palmos Phan Thanh Hảo |
The Sorrow of War Nỗi buồn chiến tranh |
[4][5][6][7] |
| Shortlist | Shūsaku Endō |  Japan | Japanese | Van C. Gessel | Deep River 深い河 | |
| Margriet de Moor |  Netherlands | Dutch | Paul Vincent | First Grey, Then White, Then Blue Eerst grijs dan wit dan blauw | ||
| Isabel Allende |  Chile | Spanish | Margaret Sayers Peden | The Infinite Plan El plan infinito | ||
| Amos Oz | Israel | Hebrew | Nicholas de Lange | Fima המצב השלישי | ||
| Italo Calvino | Italy | Italian | Tim Parks | The Road to San Giovanni La strada di San Giovanni |
1995
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title Original title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Gert Hofmann | Germany |
German | Michael Hofmann | The Film Explainer Der Kinoerzähler |
1996 to 2000
Prize in abeyance.
2001
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title Original title |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Marta Morazzoni | Italy |
Italian | Emma Rose | The Alphonse Courrier Affair Il caso Courrier |
|
| Shortlist | Marc Dugain | France | French | Howard Curtis | The Officers' Ward La chambre des officiers | |
| Michel Houellebecq | France | French | Frank Wynne | Atomised Les particules élémentaires | ||
| Antonio Tabucchi | Italy | Italian | Margaret Sayers Peden | The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro La testa perduta di Damasceno Monteiro | ||
| May Telmissany |  Egypt Canada | Arabic | Roger Allen | Dunyazad دنيا زاد | ||
| Hans-Ulrich Treichel | Germany | German | Carol Brown Janeaway | Lost Der Verlorene |
2002
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title Original title |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | W. G. Sebald | Germany |
German | Anthea Bell | Austerlitz | |
| Shortlist | Agnès Desarthe | France | French | Adriana Hunter | Five Photos of My Wife Cinq photos de ma femme | |
| Dai Sijie | France | French | Ina Rilke | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise | ||
| Andrey Kurkov |  Ukraine | Russian | George Bird | Death and the Penguin Смерть постороннего | ||
| Hanan al-Shaykh |  Lebanon | Arabic | Catherine Cobham | Only in London انها لندن يا عزيزي | ||
| H.M. van den Brink | Netherlands | Dutch | Paul Vincent | On the Water Over het water |
2003
2004
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title Original title |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Javier Cercas | Spain |
Spanish | Anne McLean | Soldiers of Salamis Soldados de Salamina |
[9][10] |
| Shortlist | Juan Marsé | Spain | Spanish | Nick Caistor | Lizard Tails Rabos de lagartija | |
| Elke Schmitter | Germany | German | Carol Brown Janeway | Mrs Sartoris Frau Sartoris | ||
| Ricardo Piglia |  Argentina | Spanish | Amanda Hopkinson | Money to Burn Plata quemada | ||
| Luther Blissett | Italy | Italian | Shaun Whiteside | Q | ||
| Mahi Binebine |  Morocco | French | Lulu Norman | Welcome to Paradise Cannibales | ||
| Longlist | Lars Saabye Christensen |  Norway Denmark | Norwegian | Kenneth Stevens | The Half Brother Halvbroren | |
| Gil Courtemanche | Canada | French | Patricia Claxton | A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali | ||
| Turki al-Hamad |  Saudi Arabia | Arabic | Robin Bray | Adama العدامة | ||
| Javier Marías | Spain | Spanish | Esther Allen | Dark Back of Time Negra espalda del tiempo | ||
| Sten Nadolny | Germany | German | Ralph Freedman | The Discovery of Slowness Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit | ||
| Per Petterson | Norway | Norwegian | Anne Born | In the Wake I kjølvannet | ||
| Shan Sa |  China France | French | Adriana Hunter | The Girl Who Played Go La joueuse de go | ||
| Fred Vargas | France | French | David Bellos | Have Mercy on Us All Pars vite et reviens tard | ||
| Ye Zhaoyan | China | Mandarin | Michael Berry | Nanjing 1937: A Love Story 一九三七年的爱情 | ||
| Akira Yoshimura | Japan | Japanese | Mark Ealey | One Man's Justice 遠い日の戦争 |
2005
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title Original title |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Frédéric Beigbeder | France |
French | Frank Wynne | Windows on the World | [11] |
| Shortlist | Chico Buarque |  Brazil | Portuguese | Alison Entrekin | Budapest Budapeste | |
| Irina Denezhkina |  Russia | Russian | Andrew Bromfield | Give Me (Songs for Lovers) Дай мне! | ||
| Xiaolu Guo | China United Kingdom | Chinese | Cindy Carter | Village of Stone 我心中的石头镇 | ||
| Orhan Pamuk | Turkey | Turkish | Maureen Freely | Snow Kar | ||
| Elif Şafak | Turkey United Kingdom | Turkish | Müge Göçek | The Flea Palace Bit Palas | ||
| Longlist | David Albahari |  Serbia | Serbian | Ellen Elias-Bursać | Götz and Meyer Gec i Majer | |
| Merete Morken Andersen | Norway | Norwegian | Barbara J. Haveland | Oceans of Time Hav av tid | ||
| Mia Couto |  Mozambique | Portuguese | David Brookshaw | The Last Flight of the Flamingo O Último Voo do Flamingo | ||
| Edgardo Cozarinsky | Argentina | Spanish | Nick Caistor | The Bride from Odessa La novia de Odessa | ||
| Viktor Yerofeyev | Russia | Russian | Andrew Reynolds | Life with an Idiot Жизнь с идиотом | ||
| Turki al-Hamad | Saudi Arabia | Arabic | Paul Starkey | Shumaisi الشميسي | ||
| Torgny Lindgren |  Sweden | Swedish | Tom Geddes | Hash Pölsan | ||
| Enrico Remmert | Italy | Italian | Aubrey Botsford | The Ballad of the Low Lifes La ballata delle canaglie | ||
| José Saramago | Portugal | Portuguese | Margaret Jull Costa | The Double O Homem Duplicado | ||
| Carlos Ruiz Zafón | Spain | Spanish | Lucia Graves | The Shadow of the Wind La sombra del viento |
2006
2007
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title Original title |
Publisher | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | José Eduardo Agualusa |  Angola |
Portuguese | Daniel Hahn | The Book of Chameleons O Vendedor de Passados |
Arcadia Books | [14][15] |
| Shortlist | Per Olov Enquist | Sweden | Swedish | Tiina Nunnally | The Story of Blanche and Marie Boken om Blanche och Marie | Vintage | |
| Vangelis Hatziyannidis |  Greece | Greek | Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife | Four Walls Οι τέσσερις τοίχοι | Marion Boyars | ||
| Javier Marías | Spain | Spanish | Margaret Jull Costa | Your Face Tomorrow 2: Dance and Dream Tu rostro mañana 2: Baile y sueño | New Directions | ||
| Eva Menasse |  Austria | German | Anthea Bell | Vienna | Phoenix | ||
| Dag Solstad | Norway | Norwegian | Sverre Lyngstad | Shyness and Dignity Genanse og verdighet | Graywolf Press | ||
| Longlist | Kader Abdolah |  Iran Netherlands | Dutch | Susan Massotty | My Father's Notebook Spijkerschrift | Canongate | |
| Niccolò Ammaniti | Italy | Italian | Jonathan Hunt | Steal You Away Ti prendo e ti porto via | Canongate | ||
| Javier Cercas | Spain | Spanish | Anne McLean | The Speed of Light La velocidad de la luz | Bloomsbury | ||
| Edgardo Cozarinsky | Argentina | Spanish | Nick Caistor | The Moldavian Pimp El rufián moldavo | Harvill Secker | ||
| Jenny Erpenbeck | Germany | German | Susan Bernofsky | The Old Child Geschichte vom alten Kind | Portobello | ||
| Faïza Guène | France | French | Sarah Adams | Just Like Tomorrow Kiffe kiffe demain | Chatto & Windus | ||
| Ismail Kadare | Albania | Albanian | David Bellos (translation from French) | The Successor Pasardhësi | Canongate | ||
| Ma Jian | China United Kingdom | Chinese | Flora Drew | Stick Out Your Tongue 亮出你的舌苔或空空荡荡 | Chatto & Windus | ||
| Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o |  Kenya | Kikuyu | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | Wizard of the Crow Mũrogi wa Kagogo | Harvill Secker | ||
| Leonardo Padura |  Cuba | Spanish | Peter Bush | Havana Black Paisaje de otoño | Bitter Lemon | ||
| Atiq Rahimi |  Afghanistan France | Dari | Sarah Maguire Yama Yari | A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear هزار خانه خواب و اختناق | Chatto & Windus | ||
| José Saramago | Portugal | Portuguese | Margaret Jull Costa | Seeing Ensaio sobre a Lucidez | Harvill Secker | ||
| Elif Şafak | Turkey United Kingdom | Turkish | Brendan Freely | The Gaze Mahrem | Marion Boyars | ||
| Linn Ullmann | Norway | Norwegian | Barbara Haveland | Grace Nåde | Picador |
2008
2009
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title Original title |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Evelio Rosero |  Colombia |
Spanish | Anne McLean | The Armies Los ejércitos |
|
| Shortlist | Céline Curiol | France | French | Sam Richard | Voice Over Voix sans issue | |
| Ma Jian | China United Kingdom | Chinese | Flora Drew | Beijing Coma 北京植物人 | ||
| Ismail Kadare | Albania | Albanian | David Bellos (translation from French) | The Siege Kështjella | ||
| Juan Gabriel Vásquez | Colombia | Spanish | Anne McLean | The Informers Los informantes | ||
| A. B. Yehoshua | Israel | Hebrew | Stuart Schoffman | Friendly Fire אש ידידותית | ||
| Longlist | Sjón |  Iceland | Icelandic | Victoria Cribb | The Blue Fox Skugga-Baldur | |
| José Eduardo Agualusa | Angola | Portuguese | Daniel Hahn | My Father's Wives As Mulheres de Meu Pai | ||
| Dag Solstad | Norway | Norwegian | Sverre Lyngstad | Novel 11, Book 18 Ellevte roman, bok atten | ||
| Yōko Ogawa | Japan | Japanese | Stephen Snyder | The Diving Pool 妊娠カレンダー | ||
| Eshkol Nevo | Israel | Hebrew | Sondra Silverston | Homesick ארבעה בתים וגעגוע | ||
| Linn Ullmann | Norway | Norwegian | Sarah Death | A Blessed Child Et velsignet barn | ||
| Thomas Glavinic | Austria | German | John Brownjohn | Night Work Die Arbeit der Nacht | ||
| György Dragomán |  Hungary | Hungarian | Paul Olchvary | The White King A fehér király | ||
| Alexander Ahndoril | Sweden | Swedish | Sarah Death | The Director Regissören | ||
| Saša Stanišić |  Bosnia and Herzegovina Germany | German | Anthea Bell | How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert |
2010
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title Original title |
Publisher | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Philippe Claudel | France |
French | John Cullen | Brodeck's Report Le Rapport de Brodeck |
MacLehose Press | [17] |
| Shortlist | Julia Franck | Germany | German | Anthea Bell | The Blind Side of the Heart Die Mittagsfrau | Harvill Secker | |
| Pietro Grossi | Italy | Italian | Howard Curtis | Fists Pugni | Pushkin Press | ||
| Alain Mabanckou |  Congo France | French | Helen Stevenson | Broken Glass Verre cassé | Serpent's Tail | ||
| Sankar |  India | Bengali | Arunava Sinha | Chowringhee চৌরঙ্গী | Atlantic Books | ||
| Rafik Schami |  Syria Germany | German | Anthea Bell | The Dark Side of Love Die dunkle Seite der Liebe | Arabia Books | ||
| Longlist | Boris Akunin | Russia | Russian | Andrew Bromfield | The Coronation Коронация, или Последний из романов | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | |
| Ketil Bjørnstad | Norway | Norwegian | Deborah Dawkin Erik Skuggevik | To Music Til musikken | Maia Press | ||
| Hassan Blasim |  Iraq Finland | Arabic | Jonathan Wright | The Madman of Freedom Square مجنون ساحة الحرية | Comma Press | ||
| Elias Khoury | Lebanon | Arabic | Humphrey Davies | Yalo يالو | MacLehose Press | ||
| Jonathan Littell |  United States France | French | Charlotte Mandell | The Kindly Ones Les Bienveillantes | Chatto & Windus | ||
| Javier Marías | Spain | Spanish | Margaret Jull Costa | Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell Tu rostro mañana 3: Veneno y sombra y adiós | Chatto & Windus | ||
| Yōko Ogawa | Japan | Japanese | Stephen Snyder | The Housekeeper and the Professor 博士の愛した数式 | Harvill Secker | ||
| Claudia Piñeiro | Argentina | Spanish | Miranda France | Thursday Night Widows Las viudas de los jueves | Bitter Lemon | ||
| Bahaa Taher | Egypt | Arabic | Humphrey Davies | Sunset Oasis واحة الغروب | Sceptre Press |
2011
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title Original title |
Publisher | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Santiago Roncagliolo |  Peru |
Spanish | Edith Grossman | Red April Abril rojo |
Atlantic Books | [18] |
| Shortlist | Marcelo Figueras | Argentina | Spanish | Margaret Jull Costa | Kamchatka | Atlantic Books | |
| Alberto Barrera Tyszka |  Venezuela | Spanish | Howard Curtis | The Sickness La enfermedad | MacLehose Press | ||
| Jenny Erpenbeck | Germany | German | Susan Bernofsky | Visitation Heimsuchung | Portobello Books | ||
| Orhan Pamuk | Turkey | Turkish | Maureen Freely | The Museum of Innocence Masumiyet Müzesi | Faber & Faber | ||
| Per Petterson | Norway | Norwegian | Charlotte Barslund Per Petterson | I Curse the River of Time Jeg forbanner tidens elv | Harvill Secker | ||
| Longlist | Véronique Olmi | France | French | Adriana Hunter | Beside the Sea Bord de mer | Peirene Press | |
| David Grossman | Israel | Hebrew | Jessica Cohen | To the End of the Land אשה בורחת מבשורה | Jonathan Cape | ||
| Daniel Kehlmann | Germany Austria | German | Carol Brown Janeway | Fame Ruhm | Quercus | ||
| Juan Gabriel Vásquez | Colombia | Spanish | Anne McLean | The Secret History of Costaguana Historia secreta de Costaguana | Bloomsbury | ||
| Michał Witkowski | Poland | Polish | W. Martin | Lovetown Lubiewo | Portobello Books | ||
| Jáchym Topol | Czechia | Czech | David Short | Gargling with Tar Kloktat dehet | Portobello Books | ||
| Juli Zeh | Germany | German | Christine Lo | Dark Matter Schilf | Harvill Secker | ||
| Shuichi Yoshida | Japan | Japanese | Philip Gabriel | Villain 悪人 | Harvill Secker | ||
| Per Wästberg | Sweden | Swedish | Tom Geddes | The Journey of Anders Sparrman Anders Sparrmans resa | Granta |
2012
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title Original title |
Publisher | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Aharon Appelfeld | Israel |
Hebrew | Jeffrey M. Green | Blooms of Darkness פרחי האפלה |
Alma Books | [19][20] |
| Shortlist | Judith Hermann | Germany | German | Margot Bettauer Dembo | Alice | Clerkenwell Press | |
| Yan Lianke | China | Chinese | Cindy Carter | Dream of Ding Village 丁庄梦 | Corsair | ||
| Sjón | Iceland | Icelandic | Victoria Cribb | From the Mouth of the Whale Rökkurbýsnir | Telegram Books | ||
| Diego Marani | Italy | Italian | Judith Landry | New Finnish Grammar Nuova grammatica finlandese | Dedalus Books | ||
| Umberto Eco | Italy | Italian | Richard Dixon | The Prague Cemetery Il cimitero di Praga | Harvill Secker | ||
| Longlist | Haruki Murakami | Japan | Japanese | Jay Rubin | 1Q84 (Book 1 and 2) | Harvill Secker | |
| Steve Sem-Sandberg | Sweden | Swedish | Sarah Death | The Emperor of Lies De fattiga i Łódź | Faber & Faber | ||
| Tristan Garcia | France | French | Marion Duvert Lorin Stein | Hate: A Romance La meilleure part des hommes | Faber & Faber | ||
| Matthias Politycki | Germany | German | Anthea Bell | Next World Novella Jenseitsnovelle | Peirene Press | ||
| Péter Nádas | Hungary | Hungarian | Imre Goldstein | Parallel Stories Párhuzamos történetek | Jonathan Cape | ||
| Shin Kyung-sook |  South Korea | Korean | Chi-Young Kim | Please Look After Mom 엄마를 부탁해 | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | ||
| Dag Solstad | Norway | Norwegian | Agnes Scott Langeland | Professor Andersen's Night Professor Andersens natt | Harvill Secker | ||
| Amos Oz | Israel | Hebrew | Nicholas De Lange | Scenes from Village Life תמונות מחיי הכפר | Chatto & Windus | ||
| Bernardo Atxaga | Spain | Basque | Margaret Jull Costa (translation from Spanish) | Seven Houses in France Zazpi etxe Frantzian | Harvill Secker |
2013
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title Original title |
Publisher | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Gerbrand Bakker | Netherlands |
Dutch | David Colmer | The Detour De omweg |
Harvill Secker | [21][22] |
| Shortlist | Chris Barnard |  South Africa | Afrikaans | Michiel Heyns | Bundu Boendoe | Alma Books | |
| Daša Drndić | Croatia | Croatian | Ellen Elias-Bursać | Trieste Sonnenschein | MacLehose Press | ||
| Ismail Kadare | Albania | Albanian | John Hodgson | The Fall of the Stone City Darka e gabuar | Canongate Books | ||
| Andrés Neuman | Argentina | Spanish | Nick Caistor Lorenza García | Traveller of the Century El viajero del siglo | Pushkin Press | ||
| Enrique Vila-Matas | Spain | Spanish | Rosalind Harvey Anne McLean | Dublinesque Dublinesca | Harvill Secker | ||
| Longlist | Laurent Binet | France | French | Sam Taylor | HHhH | Harvill Secker | |
| Paweł Huelle | Poland | Polish | Antonia Lloyd-Jones | Cold Sea Stories Opowieści chłodnego morza | Comma Press | ||
| Pia Juul | Denmark | Danish | Martin Aitken | The Murder of Halland Mordet på Halland | Peirene Press | ||
| Khaled Khalifa | Syria | Arabic | Leri Price | In Praise of Hatred مدح الكراهية | Doubleday | ||
| Karl Ove Knausgård | Norway | Norwegian | Don Bartlett | My Struggle 1: A Death in the Family Min kamp: Første bok | Harvill Secker | ||
| László Krasznahorkai | Hungary | Hungarian | George Szirtes | Satantango Sátántangó | Tuskar Rock | ||
| Alain Mabanckou | Congo France | French | Sarah Ardizzone | Black Bazaar Black Bazar | Serpent's Tail | ||
| Diego Marani | Italy | Italian | Judith Landry | The Last of the Vostyachs L'ultimo dei Vostiachi | Dedalus Books | ||
| Orhan Pamuk | Turkey | Turkish | Robert Finn | Silent House Sessiz Ev | Faber & Faber | ||
| Juan Gabriel Vásquez | Colombia | Spanish | Anne McLean | The Sound of Things Falling El ruido de las cosas al caer | Bloomsbury |
2014
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title Original title |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Hassan Blasim | Iraq Finland |
Arabic | Jonathan Wright | The Iraqi Christ المسيح العراقي |
[23][24][25] |
| Special mention | Birgit Vanderbeke | Germany | German | Jamie Bulloch | The Mussel Feast Das Muschelessen | |
| Shortlist | Karl Ove Knausgård | Norway | Norwegian | Don Bartlett | My Struggle 2: A Man in Love Min kamp: Andre bok | |
| Hiromi Kawakami | Japan | Japanese | Allison Markin Powell | Strange Weather in Tokyo センセイの鞄 | ||
| Hubert Mingarelli | France | French | Sam Taylor | A Meal in Winter Un repas en hiver | ||
| Yōko Ogawa | Japan | Japanese | Stephen Snyder | Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales 寡黙な死骸みだらな弔い | ||
| Longlist | Sinan Antoon | Iraq | Arabic | Sinan Antoon | The Corpse Washer وحدها شجرة الرمان | |
| Julia Franck | Germany | German | Anthea Bell | Back to Back Rücken an Rücken | ||
| Sayed Kashua | Israel | Hebrew | Mitch Ginsberg | Exposure גוף שני יחיד | ||
| Andrej Longo | Italy | Italian | Howard Curtis | Ten Dieci | ||
| Ma Jian | China United Kingdom | Chinese | Flora Drew | The Dark Road 阴之道 | ||
| Andreï Makine | Russia France | French | Geoffrey Strachan | Brief Loves That Live Forever Le livre des brèves amours éternelles | ||
| Javier Marías | Spain | Spanish | Margaret Jull Costa | The Infatuations Los enamoramientos | ||
| Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir | Iceland | Icelandic | Brian FitzGibbon | Butterflies in November Rigning í nóvember | ||
| Jón Kalman Stefánsson | Iceland | Icelandic | Philip Roughton | The Sorrow of Angels Harmur englanna |
2015
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title Original title |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Jenny Erpenbeck | Germany |
German | Susan Bernofsky | The End of Days Aller Tage Abend |
[26][27][28] |
| Shortlist | Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel |  Equatorial Guinea | Spanish | Jethro Soutar | By Night the Mountain Burns Arde el monte de noche | |
| Hiromi Kawakami | Japan | Japanese | Philip Gabriel | Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage 色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年 | ||
| Daniel Kehlmann | Germany | German | Carol Brown Janeway | F | ||
| Tomás González | Colombia | Spanish | Frank Wynne | In the Beginning Was the Sea Primero estaba el mar | ||
| Erwin Mortier | Belgium | Dutch | Paul Vincent | While the Gods Were Sleeping Godenslaap | ||
| Longlist | Tomas Bannerhed | Sweden | Swedish | Sarah Death | The Ravens Korparna | |
| Marcello Fois | Italy | Italian | Silvester Mazzarella | Bloodlines Stirpe | ||
| Hamid Ismailov |  Uzbekistan United Kingdom | Russian | Andrew Bromfield | The Dead Lake Вундеркинд Ержан | ||
| Karl Ove Knausgård | Norway | Norwegian | Don Bartlett | My Struggle 3: Boyhood Island Min kamp: Tredje bok | ||
| Lee Jung-myung | South Korea | Korean | Chi-Young Kim | The Investigation 별을 스치는 바람 | ||
| Judith Schalansky | Germany | German | Shaun Whiteside | The Giraffe's Neck Der Hals der Giraffe | ||
| Stefanie de Velasco | Germany | German | Tim Mohr | Tiger Milk Tigermilch | ||
| Timur Vermes | Germany | German | Jamie Bulloch | Look Who's Back Er ist wieder da | ||
| Can Xue | China | Chinese | Annelise Finegan Wasmoen | The Last Lover 最后的情人 |
Summary of prize recipients
No prize awarded from 1996 through 2000. Merged with the International Booker Prize after the award of the 2015 prize.
| Year | Recipient | Title | Original title | Translator | Original language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Orhan Pamuk | The White Castle | Beyaz Kale | Victoria Holbrook | Turkish |
| 1991 | Milan Kundera | Immortality | Nesmrtelnost | Peter Kussi | Czech |
| 1992 | Simon Leys | The Death of Napoleon | La Mort de Napoléon | Patricia Clancy | French |
| 1993 | José Saramago | The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis | O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis | Giovanni Pontiero | Portuguese |
| 1994 | Bảo Ninh | The Sorrow of War | Nỗi buồn chiến tranh | Frank Palmos and Phanh Thanh Hao | Vietnamese |
| 1995 | Gert Hofmann | The Film Explainer | Der Kinoerzähler | Michael Hofmann | German |
| 2001 | Marta Morazzoni | The Alphonse Courrier Affair | Il caso Courrier | Emma Rose | Italian |
| 2002 | W.G. Sebald (posthumously) | Austerlitz | Anthea Bell | German | |
| 2003 | Per Olov Enquist | The Visit of the Royal Physician | Livläkarens besök | Tiina Nunnally | Swedish |
| 2004 | Javier Cercas | Soldiers of Salamis | Soldados de Salamina | Anne McLean | Spanish |
| 2005 | Frédéric Beigbeder | Windows on the World | Frank Wynne | French | |
| 2006 | Per Petterson | Out Stealing Horses | Ut og stjæle hester | Anne Born | Norwegian |
| 2007 | José Eduardo Agualusa | The Book of Chameleons | O Livro dos Camaleões | Daniel Hahn | Portuguese |
| 2008 | Paul Verhaeghen | Omega Minor | Paul Verhaeghen | Dutch | |
| 2009 | Evelio Rosero | The Armies | Los ejércitos | Anne McLean | Spanish |
| 2010 | Philippe Claudel | Brodeck's Report | Le Rapport de Brodeck | John Cullen | French |
| 2011 | Santiago Roncagliolo | Red April | Abril rojo | Edith Grossman | Spanish |
| 2012 | Aharon Appelfeld | Blooms of Darkness | פרחי האפלה | Jeffrey M. Green | Hebrew |
| 2013 | Gerbrand Bakker | The Detour | De omweg | David Colmer | Dutch |
| 2014 | Hassan Blasim | The Iraqi Christ | المسيح العراقي | Jonathan Wright | Arabic |
| 2015 | Jenny Erpenbeck | The End of Days | Aller Tage Abend | Susan Bernofsky | German |