The International Booker Prize
David Diop, winning author 2021
The International Booker Prize is awarded annually for a single book, translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.
Novels and collections of short stories are both eligible. The vital work of translators is celebrated, with the £50,000 prize money divided equally between the author and translator. The shortlisted authors and translators each receive £2,500.
Judges for the 2022 International Prize
- By
- David Diop
- Published by
- Pushkin Press
A hypnotic, heartbreaking rendering of a mind hurtling towards madness, shattered by grief and the horror of war. Translated by Anna Moschovakis.
2021 International Prize Shortlist
A hypnotic, heartbreaking rendering of a mind hurtling towards madness, shattered by grief and the horror of war. Translated by Anna Moschovakis.
Mariana Enríquez populates contemporary urban Argentina with a macabre cast of crooked witches, unruly teenagers, homeless ghosts and hungry women. Translated by Megan McDowell.
Benjamín Labatut’s extraordinary imagination digs deep into the territory between fact and fiction, progress and destruction, genius and madness. Translated by Adrian Nathan West.
Olga Ravn explores what it really means to be human, while questioning the logic of productivity and a life governed by work. Translated by Martin Aitken.
Maria Stepanova’s unique portrait of a family is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a wonderfully soft-spoken, poetic voice. Translated by Sasha Dugdale.
Éric Vuillard tells the story of a man whose life casts light on the brutal times in which he lived - a period when, yet again, Europe was in flux. Translated by Mark Polizzotti.
- By
- Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
- Published by
- Faber & Faber
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's radical debut novel is studded with images of wild, violent beauty: a world of language unlike any other. Translated by Michele Hutchison.