International Booker Prize facts for kids

Quick facts for kids International Booker Prize
Inaugural winner Ismail Kadare
Presented by	Booker Prize Foundation
Country	United Kingdom
Reward	£50,000
First awarded	2005; 19 years ago (2005)

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. 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. It rewarded one author's "continued creativity, development and overall contribution to fiction on the world stage", 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.

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. 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. 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.

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".

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

2016 onwards

In July 2015 it was announced that the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize would be disbanded. 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. Each shortlisted author and translator receives £2,500. 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, with the winner announced in May.

Year	Author	Country	Translator	Country	Work	Language	Ref.
2016	Han Kang	South Korea	Deborah Smith	United Kingdom	The Vegetarian 채식주의자	Korean
2017	David Grossman	Israel	Jessica Cohen	Israel/UK/US	A Horse Walks Into a Bar סוס אחד נכנס לבר‎	Hebrew
2018	Olga Tokarczuk	Poland	Jennifer Croft	United States	Flights Bieguni	Polish
2019	Jokha al-Harthi	Oman	Marilyn Booth	United States	Celestial Bodies سيدات القمر	Arabic
2020	Marieke Lucas Rijneveld	Netherlands	Michele Hutchison	United Kingdom	The Discomfort of Evening De avond is ongemak	Dutch
2021	David Diop	France	Anna Moschovakis	United States	At Night All Blood Is Black Frère d'âme	French
2022	Geetanjali Shree	India	Daisy Rockwell	United States	Tomb of Sand रेत समाधि	Hindi
2023	Georgi Gospodinov	Bulgaria	Angela Rodel	United Kingdom/ United States	Time Shelter Времеубежище	Bulgarian
2024	Jenny Erpenbeck	Germany	Michael Hofmann	Germany	Kairos	German

Nominations 2005–2015

2005

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

Winner

• Ismail Kadare

Nominees

2007

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

Winner

• Chinua Achebe

Nominees

2009

The 2009 prize was judged by Jane Smiley (Chair), Amit Chaudhuri and Andrey Kurkov. The nominees for the third Man Booker International Prize were announced on 18 March 2009 at The New York Public Library. Canadian short story writer Munro was named the winner of the prize in 2009 for her lifetime body of work. Judge Jane Smiley said picking a winner had been "a challenge", but Munro had won the panel over. 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." Munro, who said she was "totally amazed and delighted" at her win, received the award at Trinity College Dublin on 25 June.

Winner

• Alice Munro

Nominees

2011

The 2011 prize was judged by Rick Gekoski (Chair), Carmen Callil (withdrew in protest over choice of winner) and Justin Cartwright. The nominees for the fourth Man Booker International Prize were announced on 30 March 2011 at a ceremony in Sydney, Australia. John le Carré asked to be removed from consideration, saying he was "flattered", but that he does not compete for literary prizes. However, judge Rick Gekoski said although he was disappointed that le Carré wanted to withdraw, his name would remain on the list. American novelist Roth was announced as the winner on 18 May 2011 at the Sydney Writers' Festival. Of his win, Roth said "This is a great honour and I'm delighted to receive it." 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. 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. 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.

Winner

• Philip Roth

Nominees

2013

The 2013 prize was judged by Christopher Ricks (Chair), Elif Batuman, Aminatta Forna, Yiyun Li and Tim Parks. The nominees for the fifth Man Booker International Prize were announced on 24 January 2013. Marilynne Robinson was the only writer out of the ten nominees who had been nominated for the prize before. 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. 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."

Winner

• Lydia Davis

Nominees

2015

The 2015 prize was judged by Marina Warner (Chair), Nadeem Aslam, Elleke Boehmer, Edwin Frank and Wen-chin Ouyang. The nominees for the sixth Man Booker International Prize were announced on 24 March 2015. 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.

Winner

• László Krasznahorkai

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. The six nominees were chosen from a longlist of thirteen. 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."

Award	Author	Country	Translator	Title	Publisher	Judges
Winner	Han Kang	South Korea	Deborah Smith	The Vegetarian 채식주의자	Portobello Books	Boyd Tonkin Tahmima Anam David Bellos Daniel Medin Ruth Padel
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. 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.

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	Nick Barley Daniel Hahn Helen Mort Elif Shafak Chika Unigwe
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 Guguły	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, and shared the prize with Croft. Lisa Appignanesi described Tokarczuk as a "writer of wonderful wit, imagination, and literary panache."

Award	Author	Country	Translator	Title	Publisher	Judges
Winner	Olga Tokarczuk	Poland	Jennifer Croft	Flights Bieguni	Fitzcarraldo Editions	Lisa Appignanesi Michael Hofmann Hari Kunzru Tim Martin Helen Oyeyemi
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. The shortlist was announced on 9 April 2019. 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."

Award	Author	Country	Translator	Title	Publisher	Judges
Winner	Jokha Alharthi	Oman	Marilyn Booth	Celestial Bodies سيدات القمر	Sandstone Press	Bettany Hughes Maureen Freely Angie Hobbs Pankaj Mishra Elnathan John
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 Zerán	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 نكات 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. The shortlist was announced 2 April 2020. The winner announcement was originally planned for 19 May 2020, however due to the COVID-19 pandemic it was postponed to 26 August 2020.

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	Ted Hodgkinson Jennifer Croft Valeria Luiselli Jeet Thayil Lucie Campos
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.

Award	Author	Country	Translator	Title	Publisher	Judges
Winner	David Diop	France	Anna Moschovakis	At Night All Blood Is Black Frère d'âme	Pushkin Press	Lucy Hughes-Hallett Aida Edemariam Neel Mukherjee Olivette Otele George Szirtes
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. 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.

Award	Author	Country	Translator	Title	Publisher	Judges
Winner	Geetanjali Shree	India	Daisy Rockwell	Tomb of Sand रेत समाधि	Tilted Axis Press	Frank Wynne Merve Emre Petina Gappah Viv Groskop Jeremy Tiang
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, the shortlist on 18 April 2023, and the winner on 23 May 2023. Gospodinov's Time Shelter is the first Bulgarian-language book to have won the prize.

Award	Author	Country	Translator	Title	Publisher	Judges
Winner	Georgi Gospodinov	Bulgaria	Angela Rodel	Time Shelter Времеубежище	Weidenfeld & Nicolson	Leïla Slimani Uilleam Blacker Tan Twan Eng Parul Sehgal Frederick Studemann
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, and the winner 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. The winner was Jenny Erpenbeck for her novel Kairos, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann. The judges' decision marked the first occasion the prize was won by either a German writer or a male translator.

Award	Author	Country	Translator	Title	Publisher	Judges
Winner	Jenny Erpenbeck	Germany	Michael Hofmann	Kairos	Granta	Eleanor Wachtel Natalie Diaz Romesh Gunesekera William Kentridge Aaron Robertson
Shortlist	Selva Almada	Argentina	Annie McDermott	Not a River [es] No es un río	Charco Press
	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 Press
	Domenico Starnone	Italy	Oonagh Stransky	The House on Via Gemito Via Gemito	Europa Editions
	Gabriela Wiener	Peru	Julia Sanches	Undiscovered [es] Huaco retrato	Pushkin Press

See also

In Spanish: Premio International Booker para niños

• Booker Prize for Fiction
• Man Asian Literary Prize
• National Book Award
• Prix Goncourt
• Neustadt International Prize for Literature
• Franz Kafka Prize
• Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
• International Dublin Literary Award
• List of literary awards