The International Booker Prize is awarded annually for the finest single work of fiction from around the world which has been translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland

The prize celebrates the vital work of translators, with the £50,000 prize money divided equally between the author and the translator. In addition, the shortlisted authors and translators each receive £2,500.

The International Booker Prize longlist for 2024 was announced on 11 March 2024 at 2pm GMT. The shortlist of six books will be announced on 9 April. The winning title will be announced at a ceremony on Tuesday 21 May 2004, which will be livestreamed.

The winner of the International Booker Prize 2023 was Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel

Read more about the 2023 prize

This is not just about me, the individual. I represent a language and culture and this recognition brings into larger purview the entire world of Hindi literature in particular and Indian literature as a whole.

2022 International Prize Shortlist

A New Name, Septology VI-VII

Translated by Damion Searls

Tomb of Sand
Prize winner

Translated by Daisy Rockwell

Cursed Bunny

Translated by Anton Hur

Elena Knows

Translated by Frances Riddle

Heaven

Translated by Sam Bett David Boyd

The Books of Jacob

Translated by Jennifer Croft

The history of the International Booker Prize

The Booker Prizes exist to reward the finest in fiction. The symmetrical relationship between the Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize ensures that the Booker honours fiction on a global basis: world-class fiction is highlighted by the prizes for English-speaking readers, whether that work was originally written in English (the Booker Prize) or translated into English (the International Booker Prize).

The International Booker Prize began life in 2005 as the Man Booker International Prize. It was initially a biennial prize for a body of work, and there was no stipulation that the work should be written in a language other than English. Early winners of the Man Booker International Prize therefore include Alice Munro, Lydia Davis and Philip Roth, as well as Ismail Kadare and Laszlo Krasznahorkai. 

In 2015, after the rules of the original Booker Prize expanded to allow writers of any nationality to enter - as long as their books were written in English and published in the UK - the International Prize evolved to become the mirror image of the English-language prize. Since then it has been awarded annually for a single book, written in another language and translated into English.

The Man Group continued to sponsor both prizes until 2019, when Crankstart became the funder, and the prize names reverted to the familiar ‘Booker’ name alone.

This prize aims to encourage more reading of quality fiction from all over the world, and has already had an impact on those statistics in the UK. Novels and collections of short stories are both eligible.

 Ismail Kadare