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International Booker Prize

Awarded for the best translation of a novel into English published in the UK or Ireland in the previous year.

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Award for excellence in world literature, celebrating the finest writing worldwide that is available in English translation.

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2025 Winner

WINNER

Banu Mushtaq

Heart Lamp: Selected Stories

Shortlist (5)

1

Anne Serre A Leopard-Skin Hat

2

Vincenzo Latronico Perfection

3

Hiromi Kawakami Under the Eye of the Big Bird

4

Vincent Delecroix Small Boat

5

Solvej Balle On the Calculation of Volume I

2024 Winner

WINNER

Jenny Erpenbeck

Kairos

Shortlist (5)

1

Selva Almada Not a River

2

Ia Genberg The Details

3

Hwang Sok-yong Mater 2-10

4

Jente Posthuma What I'd Rather Not Think About

5

Itamar Vieira Junior Crooked Plow

2023 Winner

WINNER

Georgi Gospodinov

Time Shelter

Shortlist (5)

1

Eva Baltasar Boulder

2

Cheon Myeong-kwan Whale

3

Maryse Conde The Gospel According to the New World

4

GauZ' Standing Heavy

5

Guadalupe Nettel Still Born

2022 Winner

WINNER

Geetanjali Shree

Tomb of Sand

Shortlist (5)

1

Bora Chung Cursed Bunny

2

Jon Fosse A New Name: Septology VI-VII

3

Mieko Kawakami Heaven

4

Claudia Pineiro Elena Knows

5

Olga Tokarczuk The Books of Jacob

2021 Winner

WINNER

David Diop

At Night All Blood Is Black

Shortlist (5)

1

Mariana Enriquez The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

2

Benjamin Labatut When We Cease to Understand the World

3

Olga Ravn The Employees

4

Maria Stepanova In Memory of Memory

5

Eric Vuillard The War of the Poor

2020 Winner

WINNER

Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

The Discomfort of Evening

Shortlist (5)

1

Shokoofeh Azar The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree

2

Gabriela Cabezon Camara The Adventures of China Iron

3

Daniel Kehlmann Tyll

4

Fernanda Melchor Hurricane Season

5

Yoko Ogawa The Memory Police

2019 Winner

WINNER

Jokha Alharthi

Celestial Bodies

Shortlist (5)

1

Annie Ernaux The Years

2

Marion Poschmann The Pine Islands

3

Olga Tokarczuk Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

4

Juan Gabriel Vasquez The Shape of the Ruins

5

Alia Trabucco Zeran The Remainder

2018 Winner

WINNER

Olga Tokarczuk

Flights

Shortlist (5)

1

Virginie Despentes Vernon Subutex 1

2

Han Kang The White Book

3

Laszlo Krasznahorkai The World Goes On

4

Antonio Munoz Molina Like a Fading Shadow

5

Ahmed Saadawi Frankenstein in Baghdad

2017 Winner

WINNER

David Grossman

A Horse Walks into a Bar

Shortlist (5)

1

Mathias Enard Compass

2

Roy Jacobsen The Unseen

3

Dorthe Nors Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

4

Amos Oz Judas

5

Samanta Schweblin Fever Dream

2016 Winner

WINNER

Han Kang

The Vegetarian

Shortlist (5)

1

Jose Eduardo Agualusa A General Theory of Oblivion

2

Elena Ferrante The Story of the Lost Child

3

Orhan Pamuk A Strangeness in My Mind

4

Robert Seethaler A Whole Life

5

Yan Lianke The Four Books

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