International Booker Prize
International literary award
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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.
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| International Booker Prize | |
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Inaugural winner Ismail Kadare | |
| Awarded for | Best work of fiction translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | Booker Prize Foundation |
| Reward | £50,000 |
| First award | 2005 |
| Website | thebookerprizes |
Since 2016, the award has been given annually to a single novel 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 writers of any nationality whose work was available in English, including translations.[6] The award was worth £60,000 and given every two years to a living author for their entire body of literature, in a similar way to the Nobel Prize for Literature.[3] The Man Booker International Prize also allowed for a separate award for translating. If applicable, the winning author could direct the organization to present a prize sum of £15,000 to their translator.[7]
The 2005 inaugural winner of the international 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. |
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| 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 and its prize money would be folded into the Man Booker International Prize.[4] Starting with the 2016 award, the Man Booker International Prize became annual and changed its remit to perform the same role as the Independent prize: awarding books of fiction translated into English, in order to encourage the publishing and reading of quality works in translation and to highlight the work of translators.[15] The £50,000 prize is split between author and translator. Each shortlisted author and translator receives £2,500.[16] 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]
Nominations 2005–2015
2005
The inaugural Man Booker International Prize was judged by John Carey (chair), Alberto Manguel and Azar Nafisi.[31] 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.[31] Head judge, Professor John Carey said Kadare is "a universal writer in the tradition of storytelling that goes back to Homer."[31] Kadare said he was "deeply honoured" at being awarded the prize.[31] Kadare was also able to select a translator to receive an additional prize of £15,000.[31] The writer received his award in Edinburgh on 27 June.[31]
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2007
The 2007 prize was judged by Elaine Showalter, Nadine Gordimer and Colm Tóibín.[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.[32] Judge Nadine Gordimer said Achebe was "the father of modern African literature" and that he was "integral" to world literature.[32] Achebe received his award on 28 June in Oxford.[32]
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2009
The 2009 prize was judged by Jane Smiley (chair), Amit Chaudhuri and Andrey Kurkov.[33] The nominees for the third Man Booker International Prize were announced on 18 March 2009 at The New York Public Library.[34] Canadian short story writer Alice Munro was named the winner of the prize in 2009 for her lifetime body of work.[33] Judge Jane Smiley said picking a winner had been "a challenge", but Munro had won the panel over.[33] 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."[33] Munro, who said she was "totally amazed and delighted" at her win, received the award at Trinity College Dublin on 25 June.[2][33]
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2011
The 2011 prize was judged by Rick Gekoski (chair), Carmen Callil (withdrew in protest over choice of winner) and Justin Cartwright.[37] The nominees for the fourth Man Booker International Prize were announced on 30 March 2011 at a ceremony in Sydney, Australia.[38] John le Carré asked to be removed from consideration, saying he was "flattered", but that he does not compete for literary prizes.[39] However, judge Rick Gekoski said although he was disappointed that le Carré wanted to withdraw, his name would remain on the list.[39] American novelist Philip Roth was announced as the winner on 18 May 2011 at the Sydney Writers' Festival.[40] Of his win, Roth said "This is a great honour and I'm delighted to receive it."[40] 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.[40] 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.[40][41] 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][42]
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2013
The 2013 prize was judged by Christopher Ricks (chair), Elif Batuman, Aminatta Forna, Yiyun Li and Tim Parks.[43] The nominees for the fifth Man Booker International Prize were announced on 24 January 2013.[44] Marilynne Robinson was the only writer out of the ten nominees who had been nominated for the prize before.[44] 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.[45] 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."[46]
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2015
The 2015 prize was judged by British author Marina Warner (chair), Nadeem Aslam, Elleke Boehmer, Edwin Frank and Wen-chin Ouyang.[47] The nominees for the sixth Man Booker International Prize were announced on 24 March 2015.[47] László Krasznahorkai became the first author from Hungary to receive the prize, which recognised his "achievement in fiction on the world stage". Warner compared his writing to Kafka and Beckett. Krasznahorkai's translators, George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet, shared the £15,000 translators' prize.[48]
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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.[50] The six nominees were chosen from a longlist of thirteen.[51][52] Han Kang 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."[53]
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.[54][55] David 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.[56]
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title | Publisher | Judges |
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| Winner | David Grossman |  Israel |
Hebrew | Jessica Cohen | A Horse Walks into a Bar סוס אחד נכנס לבר |
Jonathan Cape |
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| Shortlist | Mathias Énard |  France | French | Charlotte Mandell | Compass Boussole | Fitzcarraldo Editions | |
| Roy Jacobsen |  Norway | Norwegian | Don Bartlett & Don Shaw | The Unseen De usynlige | MacLehose Press | ||
| Dorthe Nors |  Denmark | Danish | Misha Hoekstra | Mirror, Shoulder, Signal Spejl, skulder, blink | Pushkin Press | ||
| Amos Oz | Israel | Hebrew | Nicholas de Lange | Judas הבשורה על-פי יהודה | Chatto & Windus | ||
| Samanta Schweblin |  Argentina | Spanish | Megan McDowell | Fever Dream Distancia de rescate | Oneworld | ||
| Longlist | Wioletta Greg |  Poland | Polish | Eliza Marciniak | Swallowing Mercury Guguły | Portobello Books | |
| Stefan Hertmans |  Belgium | Dutch | David McKay | War and Turpentine Oorlog en terpentijn | Harvill Secker | ||
| Ismail Kadare | Albania | Albanian | John Hodgson | The Traitor's Niche Kamarja e turpit | Harvill Secker | ||
| Alain Mabanckou | France | French | Helen Stevenson | Black Moses Petit Piment | Serpent's Tail | ||
| Clemens Meyer |  Germany | German | Katy Derbyshire | Bricks and Mortar Im Stein | Fitzcarraldo Editions | ||
| Jón Kalman Stefánsson |  Iceland | Icelandic | Phil Roughton | Fish Have No Feet Fiskarnir hafa enga fætur | MacLehose Press | ||
| Yan Lianke |  China | Mandarin | 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. Olga Tokarczuk is the first Polish author to win the award,[57] and shared the prize with translator Jennifer Croft.[58] Lisa Appignanesi described Tokarczuk as a "writer of wonderful wit, imagination, and literary panache."[59]
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title | Publisher | Judges |
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| Winner | Olga Tokarczuk | Poland |
Polish | Jennifer Croft | Flights Bieguni |
Fitzcarraldo Editions |
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| Shortlist | Virginie Despentes | France | French | Frank Wynne | Vernon Subutex 1 | MacLehose Press | |
| Han Kang |  South Korea | Korean | Deborah Smith | The White Book 흰 | Portobello Books | ||
| László Krasznahorkai | Hungary | Hungarian | John Batki, Ottilie Mulzet & George Szirtes | The World Goes On Megy a világ | Tuskar Rock Press | ||
| Antonio Muñoz Molina |  Spain | Spanish | Camilo A. Ramirez | Like a Fading Shadow Como la sombra que se va | Tuskar Rock Press | ||
| Ahmed Saadawi |  Iraq | Arabic | Jonathan Wright | Frankenstein in Baghdad فرانكشتاين في بغداد | Oneworld | ||
| Longlist | Laurent Binet | France | French | Sam Taylor | The 7th Function of Language La Septième Fonction du langage | Harvill Secker | |
| Javier Cercas | Spain | Spanish | Frank Wynne | The Impostor El impostor | MacLehose Press | ||
| Jenny Erpenbeck | Germany | German | Susan Bernofsky | Go, Went, Gone Gehen, ging, gegangen | Portobello Books | ||
| Ariana Harwicz | Argentina | Spanish | Sarah Moses & Carolina Orloff | Die, My Love Matate, amor | Charco Press | ||
| Christoph Ransmayr |  Austria | German | Simon Pare | The Flying Mountain Der fliegende Berg | Seagull Books | ||
| Wu Ming-Yi |  Taiwan | Mandarin | Darryl Sterk | The Stolen Bicycle 單車失竊記 | Text Publishing | ||
| Gabriela Ybarra | Spain | Spanish | Natasha Wimmer | The Dinner Guest El comensal | Harvill Secker |
2019
The longlist for the Man Booker International Prize was announced on 13 March 2019.[60] The shortlist was announced on 9 April 2019.[61] 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."[62]
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title | Publisher | Judges |
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| Winner | Jokha Alharthi |  Oman |
Arabic | Marilyn Booth | Celestial Bodies سيدات القمر |
Sandstone Press | |
| Shortlist | Annie Ernaux | France | French | Alison L. Strayer | The Years Les années | Fitzcarraldo Editions | |
| Marion Poschmann | Germany | German | Jen Calleja | The Pine Islands Die Kieferninseln | Serpent's Tail | ||
| Olga Tokarczuk | Poland | Polish | Antonia Lloyd-Jones | Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych | Fitzcarraldo Editions | ||
| Juan Gabriel Vásquez |  Colombia | Spanish | Anne McLean | The Shape of the Ruins La forma de las ruinas | MacLehose Press | ||
| Alia Trabucco Zerán |  Chile | Spanish | Sophie Hughes | The Remainder La resta | And Other Stories | ||
| Longlist | Can Xue | China | Mandarin | Annelise Finegan Wasmoen | Love in the New Millennium 新世纪爱情故事 | Yale University Press | |
| Hwang Sok-yong | South Korea | Korean | Sora Kim-Russell | At Dusk 해질무렵 | Scribe | ||
| Mazen Maarouf |  Palestine Iceland | Arabic | Jonathan Wright | Jokes for the Gunmen نكات للمسلحين | Granta | ||
| Hubert Mingarelli | France | French | Sam Taylor | Four Soldiers Quatre soldats | Portobello Books | ||
| Samanta Schweblin | Argentina | Spanish | Megan McDowell | Mouthful of Birds Pájaros en la boca | Oneworld | ||
| Sara Stridsberg |  Sweden | Swedish | Deborah Bragan-Turner | The Faculty of Dreams Drömfakulteten | MacLehose Press | ||
| Tommy Wieringa |  Netherlands | Dutch | 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.[63] The shortlist was announced 2 April 2020.[64] The winner announcement was originally planned for 19 May 2020, however due to the COVID-19 pandemic it was postponed to 26 August 2020.[65]
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title | Publisher | Judges |
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| Winner | Marieke Lucas Rijneveld | Netherlands |
Dutch | Michele Hutchison | The Discomfort of Evening De avond is ongemak |
Faber & Faber |
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| Shortlist | Shokoofeh Azar |  Iran | Persian | Anonymous | The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree اشراق درخت گوجه سبز | Europa Editions | |
| Gabriela Cabezón Cámara | Argentina | Spanish | Iona Macintyre & Fiona Mackintosh | The Adventures of China Iron Las aventuras de la China Iron | Charco Press | ||
| Daniel Kehlmann | Germany | German | Ross Benjamin | Tyll | Riverrun, Quercus | ||
| Fernanda Melchor |  Mexico | Spanish | Sophie Hughes | Hurricane Season Temporada de huracanes | Fitzcarraldo Editions | ||
| Yōko Ogawa |  Japan | Japanese | Stephen Snyder | The Memory Police 密やかな結晶 | Harvill Secker | ||
| Longlist | Willem Anker |  South Africa | Afrikaans | Michiel Heyns | Red Dog Buys: 'n grensroman | Pushkin Press | |
| Jon Fosse | Norway | Norwegian | Damion Searls | The Other Name: Septology I – II Det andre namnet – Septologien I – II | Fitzcarraldo Editions | ||
| Nino Haratischvili |  Georgia Germany | German | Charlotte Collins & Ruth Martin | The Eighth Life Das achte Leben (Für Brilka) | Scribe | ||
| Michel Houellebecq | France | French | Shaun Whiteside | Serotonin Sérotonine | William Heinemann | ||
| Emmanuelle Pagano | France | French | Sophie Lewis & Jennifer Higgins | Faces on the Tip of My Tongue Un renard à mains nues | Peirene Press | ||
| Samanta Schweblin | Argentina | Spanish | Megan McDowell | Little Eyes Kentukis | Oneworld | ||
| Enrique Vila-Matas | Spain | Spanish | 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.[66]
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title | Publisher | Judges |
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| Winner | David Diop | France |
French | Anna Moschovakis | At Night All Blood Is Black Frère d'âme |
Pushkin Press | |
| Shortlist | Mariana Enríquez | Argentina | Spanish | Megan McDowell | The Dangers of Smoking in Bed Los peligros de fumar en la cama | Granta | |
| Benjamín Labatut | Chile | Spanish | Adrian Nathan West | When We Cease to Understand the World Un verdor terrible | Pushkin Press | ||
| Olga Ravn | Denmark | Danish | Martin Aitken | The Employees De ansatte | Lolli Editions | ||
| Maria Stepanova |  Russia | Russian | Sasha Dugdale | In Memory of Memory Памяти памяти | Fitzcarraldo Editions | ||
| Éric Vuillard | France | French | Mark Polizzotti | The War of the Poor La Guerre des pauvres | Picador | ||
| Longlist | Can Xue | China | Mandarin | Karen Gernant & Chen Zeping | I Live in the Slums | Yale University Press | |
| Nana Ekvtimishvili | Georgia | Georgian | Elizabeth Heighway | The Pear Field მსხლების მინდორი | Peirene Press | ||
| Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o |  Kenya | Kikuyu | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi Kenda Mũiyũru: Rũgano rwa Gĩkũyũ na Mũmbi | Harvill Secker | ||
| Jaap Robben | Netherlands | Dutch | David Doherty | Summer Brother Zomervacht | World Editions | ||
| Judith Schalansky | Germany | German | Jackie Smith | An Inventory of Losses Verzeichnis einiger Verluste | MacLehose Press | ||
| Adania Shibli | Palestine | Arabic | Elisabeth Jaquette | Minor Detail تفصيل ثانوي | Fitzcarraldo Editions | ||
| Andrzej Tichý | Sweden | Swedish | 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.[26] 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.[67]
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title | Publisher | Judges |
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| Winner | Geetanjali Shree |  India |
Hindi | Daisy Rockwell | Tomb of Sand रेत समाधि |
Tilted Axis Press | |
| Shortlist | Bora Chung | South Korea | Korean | Anton Hur | Cursed Bunny 저주토끼 | Honford Star | |
| Jon Fosse | Norway | Norwegian | Damion Searls | A New Name: Septology VI-VII Eit nytt namn – Septologien VI – VII | Fitzcarraldo Editions | ||
| Mieko Kawakami | Japan | Japanese | Sam Bett & David Boyd | Heaven ヘヴン | Picador | ||
| Claudia Piñeiro | Argentina | Spanish | Frances Riddle | Elena Knows Elena sabe | Charco Press | ||
| Olga Tokarczuk | Poland | Polish | Jennifer Croft | The Books of Jacob Księgi Jakubowe | Fitzcarraldo Editions | ||
| Longlist | Jonas Eika | Denmark | Danish | Sherilyn Hellberg | After the Sun Efter solen | Lolli Editions | |
| David Grossman | Israel | Hebrew | Jessica Cohen | More Than I Love My Life אתי החיים משחק הרבה | Jonathan Cape | ||
| Violaine Huisman | France | French | Leslie Camhi | The Book of Mother Fugitive parce que reine | Scribner | ||
| Fernanda Melchor | Mexico | Spanish | Sophie Hughes | Paradais Páradais | Fitzcarraldo Editions | ||
| Sang Young Park | South Korea | Korean | Anton Hur | Love in the Big City 대도시의 사랑법 | Tilted Axis Press | ||
| Norman Erikson Pasaribu |  Indonesia | Indonesian | Tiffany Tsao | Happy Stories, Mostly Cerita-cerita Bahagia, Hampir Seluruhnya | Tilted Axis Press | ||
| Paulo Scott |  Brazil | Portuguese | Daniel Hahn | Phenotypes Marrom e Amarelo | And Other Stories |
2023
The longlist was announced on 14 March 2023,[68] the shortlist on 18 April 2023,[68] and the winner on 23 May 2023. Gospodinov's Time Shelter is the first Bulgarian-language book to have won the prize.[69]
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title | Publisher | Judges |
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| Winner | Georgi Gospodinov |  Bulgaria |
Bulgarian | Angela Rodel | Time Shelter Времеубежище |
Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
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| Shortlist | Eva Baltasar | Spain | Catalan | Julia Sanches | Boulder | And Other Stories | |
| Cheon Myeong-kwan | South Korea | Korean | Chi-Young Kim | Whale 고래 | Europa Editions | ||
| Maryse Condé | France | French | Richard Philcox | The Gospel According to the New World L'Évangile du nouveau monde | World Editions | ||
| GauZ' |  Ivory Coast | French | Frank Wynne | Standing Heavy Debout-payé | MacLehose Press | ||
| Guadalupe Nettel | Mexico | Spanish | Rosalind Harvey | Still Born La hija única | Fitzcarraldo Editions | ||
| Longlist | Vigdis Hjorth | Norway | Norwegian | Charlotte Barslund | Is Mother Dead Er mor død | Verso Fiction | |
| Andrey Kurkov |  Ukraine | Russian | Reuben Woolley | Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv Львовская гастроль Джими Хендрикса | MacLehose Press | ||
| Laurent Mauvignier | France | French | Daniel Levin Becker | The Birthday Party Histoires de la nuit | Fitzcarraldo Editions | ||
| Clemens Meyer | Germany | German | Katy Derbyshire | While We Were Dreaming Als wir träumten | Fitzcarraldo Editions | ||
| Perumal Murugan | India | Tamil | Aniruddhan Vasudevan | Pyre பூக்குழி | Pushkin Press | ||
| Amanda Svensson | Sweden | Swedish | Nichola Smalley | A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding Ett system så magnifikt att det bländar | Scribe | ||
| Zou Jingzhi | China | Mandarin | Jeremy Tiang | Ninth Building 九栋 | Honford Star |
2024
The longlist was announced on 11 March 2024, the shortlist on 9 April 2024, and the winner on 21 May 2024, at a ceremony at Tate Modern in London, sponsored by Maison Valentino. The judging panel was chaired by Canadian writer and broadcaster Eleanor Wachtel, and consisted 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] The winner was Jenny Erpenbeck for her novel Kairos, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann.[71] The judges' decision marked the first occasion the prize was won by either a German writer or a male translator.[71]
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title | Publisher | Judges |
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| Winner | Jenny Erpenbeck | Germany |
German | Michael Hofmann | Kairos | Granta |
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| Shortlist | Selva Almada | Argentina | Spanish | Annie McDermott | Not a River No es un río | Charco Press | |
| Ia Genberg | Sweden | Swedish | Kira Josefsson | The Details Detaljerna | Granta | ||
| Hwang Sok-yong | South Korea | Korean | Sora Kim-Russell & Youngjae Josephine Bae | Mater 2-10 철도원 삼대 | Scribe | ||
| Jente Posthuma | Netherlands | Dutch | Sarah Timmer Harvey | What I’d Rather Not Think About Waar ik liever niet aan denk | Scribe | ||
| Itamar Vieira Junior | Brazil | Portuguese | Johnny Lorenz | Crooked Plow Torto Arado | Verso Books | ||
| Longlist | Rodrigo Blanco Calderón |  Venezuela | Spanish | Noel Hernández González & Daniel Hahn | Simpatía | Seven Stories Press | |
| Urszula Honek | Poland | Polish | Kate Webster | White Nights Białe noce | MTO Press | ||
| Ismail Kadare | Albania | Albanian | John Hodgson | A Dictator Calls Kur sunduesit grinden | Harvill Secker | ||
| Andrey Kurkov | Ukraine | Russian | Boris Dralyuk | The Silver Bone Самсон и Надежда | MacLehose Press | ||
| Veronica Raimo |  Italy | Italian | Leah Janeczko | Lost on Me Niente di vero | Virago Press | ||
| Domenico Starnone | Italy | Italian | Oonagh Stransky | The House on Via Gemito Via Gemito | Europa Editions | ||
| Gabriela Wiener |  Peru | Spanish | Julia Sanches | Undiscovered Huaco retrato | Pushkin Press | ||
2025
The longlist was announced on 25 February 2025[72][73] and the shortlist was published on 8 April 2025.[74] The judging panel was chaired by English writer Max Porter and also consisted of Nigerian poet, director and photographer Caleb Femi, writer and publishing director of Wasafiri Sana Goyal, South Korean writer and translator Anton Hur, and English singer-songwriter Beth Orton. The winner, Banu Mushtaq's Heart Lamp: Selected Stories, was announced on 20 May 2025.[75][76][77]
All 13 writers on the longlist were first-time nominees. The works selected for 2025 included several other firsts: the prize's first nominated translation from Kannada (Heart Lamp); the first nomination of a Romanian author (Cărtărescu); and the first nomination for an Iraqi translator (Antoon). Translator Sophie Hughes appeared on the longlist for a record fifth time and on the shortlist for a record third time.[72][74] Deepa Bhasthi was the first Indian translator to win the award.[78]
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title | Publisher | Judges |
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| Winner | Banu Mushtaq | India |
Kannada | Deepa Bhasthi | Heart Lamp: Selected Stories ಎದೆಯ ಹಣತೆ |
And Other Stories |
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| Shortlist | Anne Serre | France | French | Mark Hutchinson | A Leopard-Skin Hat Un chapeau léopard | Lolli Editions | |
| Vincenzo Latronico | Italy | Italian | Sophie Hughes | Perfection Le perfezioni | Fitzcarraldo Editions | ||
| Hiromi Kawakami | Japan | Japanese | Asa Yoneda | Under the Eye of the Big Bird 大きな鳥にさらわれないよう | Granta | ||
| Vincent Delecroix | France | French | Helen Stevenson | Small Boat Naufrage | Small Axes | ||
| Solvej Balle | Denmark | Danish | Barbara J Haveland | On the Calculation of Volume I Om udregning af rumfang | Faber & Faber | ||
| Longlist | Ibtisam Azem | Palestine | Arabic | Sinan Antoon | The Book of Disappearance سفر الإختفاء | And Other Stories | |
| Gaëlle Bélem | France | French | Karen Fleetwood & Laëtitia Saint-Loubert | There's a Monster Behind the Door Un monstre est là, derrière la porte | Bullaun Press | ||
| Mircea Cărtărescu |  Romania | Romanian | Sean Cotter | Solenoid | Pushkin Press | ||
| Dahlia de la Cerda | Mexico | Spanish | Heather Cleary & Julia Sanches | Reservoir Bitches Perras de reserva | Scribe | ||
| Saou Ichikawa | Japan | Japanese | Polly Barton | Hunchback ハンチバック | Viking Press | ||
| Christian Kracht |  Switzerland | German | Daniel Bowles | Eurotrash | Serpent's Tail | ||
| Astrid Roemer |  Suriname Netherlands | Dutch | Lucy Scott | On a Woman's Madness Over de gekte van een vrouw | Tilted Axis Press |
2026
The longlist was announced on 24 February 2026 [79][80] and the shortlist on 31 March 2026.[81] The winner will be announced on 19 May 2026 at the Tate Modern in London.[82] The judging panel was chaired by British writer Natasha Brown alongside Oxford professor and mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, International Booker Prize-shortlisted translator Sophie Hughes, Kenyan writer and editor Troy Onyango, and Indian novelist and columnist Nilanjana S. Roy.
| Award | Author | Country | Language | Translator | Title | Publisher | Judges |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shortlist | |||||||
| Yáng Shuāng-zǐ | Taiwan | Mandarin Chinese | Lin King | Taiwan Travelogue 臺灣漫遊錄 | And Other Stories | ||
| Marie NDiaye | France | French | Jordan Stump | The Witch La Sorcière | MacLehose Press | ||
| Ana Paula Maia | Brazil | Portuguese | Padma Viswanathan | On Earth As It Is Beneath Assim na Terra como embaixo da Terra | Charco Press | ||
| Daniel Kehlmann | Germany Austria | German | Ross Benjamin | The Director Lichtspiel | riverrun | ||
| Rene Karabash | Bulgaria | Bulgarian | Izidora Angel | She Who Remains Остайница | Peirene Press | ||
| Shida Bazyar | Germany | German | Ruth Martin | The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran Nachts ist es leise in Teheran | Scribe UK | ||
| Longlist | |||||||
| Olga Ravn | Denmark | Danish | Martin Aitken | The Wax Child Voksbarnet | Viking | ||
| Shahrnush Parsipur | Iran | Farsi | Faridoun Farrokh | Women Without Men زنان بدون مردان | Penguin International Writers | ||
| Matteo Melchiorre | Italy | Italian | Antonella Lettieri | The Duke Il Duca | Foundry Editions | ||
| Ia Genberg | Sweden | Swedish | Kira Josefsson | Small Comfort Klen tröst | Wildfire Books | ||
| Mathias Énard | France | French | Charlotte Mandell | The Deserters Déserter | Fitzcarraldo Editions | ||
| Anjet Daanje | Netherlands | Dutch | David McKay | The Remembered Soldier De herinnerde soldaat | Scribe UK | ||
| Gabriela Cabezón Cámara | Argentina | Spanish | Robin Myers | We Are Green and Trembling Las niñas del naranjel | Harvill |
