Award
International Booker Prize
International Booker Prize is awarded annually to the finest work of fiction translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland. Shared equally between author and translator, the prize celebrates outstanding international literature and has become one of the world’s leading honors for translated fiction.
2026
Taiwan Travelogue
May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She’s been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experience...
2025
Heart Lamp
In the twelve stories of *Heart Lamp*, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada language between 1990 and 2023, praised for their dry and gentle humor, these portraits of family and community...
2024
Kairos
Kairos tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fifties named Hans.
Their passionate yet difficult long-running affair takes place against the background of the declining GDR, through the...
2023
Time Shelter
“At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created,” begins Time Shelter’s enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. “In the mid–seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not only the exact year, but also a starting date: October 22, 4,004...
2022
Tomb of Sand
A tale tells itself. It can be complete, but also incomplete, the way all tales are. This particular tale has a border and women who come and go as they please. Once you’ve got women and a border, a story can write itself . . .
Eighty-year-old Ma slips into a deep depression after the death of her...
2021
At Night All Blood Is Black
Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who finds himself fighting as a so-called Chocolat soldier with the French army during World War I. When his village friend Mademba Diop is mortally wounded in battle, Mademba begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long death in no-man’s-land. But Alfa...
2020
The Discomfort of Evening
Ten-year-old Jas lives with her strictly religious parents and her siblings on a dairy farm where waste and frivolity are akin to sin. Despite the dreary routine of their days, Jas has a unique way of experiencing her world: her face soft like cheese under her mother’s hands; the texture of green...
2019
Celestial Bodies
In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves, who has emigrated to Canada.
These three women and their families,...
2018
Flights
From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, *Flights* interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration.
Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her...
2017
A Horse Walks Into a Bar
In a little dive in a small Israeli city, Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, is doing a night of stand-up. In the audience is a district court justice, Avishai Lazar, whom Dov knew as a boy, along with a few others who remember Dov as an awkward, scrawny kid who walked on his hands to...
2016
The Vegetarian
A woman suddenly stops eating meat after a disturbing dream, a decision that shocks her husband and disrupts their marriage. What begins as a personal change quickly escalates into family conflict, as her behavior grows increasingly distant from the expectations placed on her.
As pressure from...