International Booker Prize Winners: Complete List by Year

17 winning results from 2005 to 2026, plus 55 recorded shortlist and finalist results. Explore the chronological list and follow the links to authors, available book guides and other winners from the same year.

Category: Translated fiction
Country: United Kingdom
Founded: 2005
Frequency: Annual
Prize: £50,000
Previously: Man Booker International Prize
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Awarded for a single book translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland. The prize is split between author and translator.

From 2005 to 2015 this was a biennial award for an author’s body of work. Since 2016 it has recognised a translated book and its author and translator. Early author awards are therefore listed without a winning book.

Winners by year

Year	Book / recipient	Award	Result
2026	Taiwan Travelogue Yáng Shuāng-zǐ Translated by Lin King	International Booker Prize	winnerSource
2025	Heart Lamp: Selected Stories Banu Mushtaq Translated by Deepa Bhasthi	International Booker Prize	winnerSource
2024	Kairos Jenny Erpenbeck Translated by Michael Hofmann	International Booker Prize	winnerSource
2023	Time Shelter Georgi Gospodinov Translated by Angela Rodel	International Booker Prize	winnerSource
2022	Tomb of Sand Geetanjali Shree Translated by Daisy Rockwell	International Booker Prize	winnerSource
2021	At Night All Blood Is Black David Diop Translated by Anna Moschovakis	International Booker Prize	winnerSource
2020	The Discomfort of Evening Marieke Lucas Rijneveld Translated by Michele Hutchison	International Booker Prize	winnerSource
2019	Celestial Bodies Jokha Alharthi Translated by Marilyn Booth	International Booker Prize	winnerSource
2018	Flights Olga Tokarczuk Translated by Jennifer Croft	International Booker Prize	winnerSource
2017	A Horse Walks into a Bar David Grossman Translated by Jessica Cohen	International Booker Prize	winnerSource
2016	The Vegetarian Han Kang Translated by Deborah Smith	International Booker Prize	winnerSource
2015	László Krasznahorkai Award for the author’s body of work Translated by George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet	International Booker Prize	winnerSource
2013	Lydia Davis Award for the author’s body of work	International Booker Prize	winnerSource
2011	Philip Roth Award for the author’s body of work	International Booker Prize	winnerSource
2009	Alice Munro Award for the author’s body of work	International Booker Prize	winnerSource
2007	Chinua Achebe Award for the author’s body of work	International Booker Prize	winnerSource
2005	Ismail Kadare Award for the author’s body of work	International Booker Prize	winnerSource

Shortlists and finalists

These books reached a shortlist or final round. They are not counted as winners. Coverage depends on the published historical record.

Year	Book / recipient	Award	Result
2026	On Earth As It Is Beneath Ana Paula Maia Translated by Padma Viswanathan	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2026	The Director Daniel Kehlmann Translated by Ross Benjamin	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2026	The Witch Marie NDiaye Translated by Jordan Stump	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2026	She Who Remains Rene Karabash Translated by Izidora Angel	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2026	The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran Shida Bazyar Translated by Ruth Martin	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2025	A Leopard-Skin Hat Anne Serre Translated by Mark Hutchinson	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2025	Under the Eye of the Big Bird Hiromi Kawakami Translated by Asa Yoneda	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2025	On the Calculation of Volume I Solvej Balle Translated by Barbara J Haveland	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2025	Small Boat Vincent Delecroix Translated by Helen Stevenson	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2025	Perfection Vincenzo Latronico Translated by Sophie Hughes	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2024	Mater 2-10 Hwang Sok-yong Translated by Sora Kim-Russell & Youngjae Josephine Bae	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2024	The Details Ia Genberg Translated by Kira Josefsson	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2024	Crooked Plow Itamar Vieira Junior Translated by Johnny Lorenz	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2024	What I’d Rather Not Think About Jente Posthuma Translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2024	Not a River Selva Almada Translated by Annie McDermott	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2023	Whale Cheon Myeong-kwan Translated by Chi-Young Kim	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2023	Boulder Eva Baltasar Translated by Julia Sanches	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2023	Standing Heavy GauZ' Translated by Frank Wynne	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2023	Still Born Guadalupe Nettel Translated by Rosalind Harvey	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2023	The Gospel According to the New World Maryse Condé Translated by Richard Philcox	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2022	Cursed Bunny Bora Chung Translated by Anton Hur	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2022	Elena Knows Claudia Piñeiro Translated by Frances Riddle	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2022	A New Name: Septology VI-VII Jon Fosse Translated by Damion Searls	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2022	Heaven Mieko Kawakami Translated by Sam Bett & David Boyd	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2022	The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk Translated by Jennifer Croft	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2021	When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamín Labatut Translated by Adrian Nathan West	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2021	The War of the Poor Éric Vuillard Translated by Mark Polizzotti	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2021	In Memory of Memory Maria Stepanova Translated by Sasha Dugdale	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2021	The Dangers of Smoking in Bed Mariana Enríquez Translated by Megan McDowell	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2021	The Employees Olga Ravn Translated by Martin Aitken	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2020	Tyll Daniel Kehlmann Translated by Ross Benjamin	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2020	Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor Translated by Sophie Hughes	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2020	The Adventures of China Iron Gabriela Cabezón Cámara Translated by Iona Macintyre & Fiona Mackintosh	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2020	The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree Shokoofeh Azar Translated by Anonymous	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2020	The Memory Police Yōko Ogawa Translated by Stephen Snyder	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2019	The Remainder Alia Trabucco Zerán Translated by Sophie Hughes	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2019	The Years Annie Ernaux Translated by Alison L. Strayer	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2019	The Shape of the Ruins Juan Gabriel Vásquez Translated by Anne McLean	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2019	The Pine Islands Marion Poschmann Translated by Jen Calleja	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2019	Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead Olga Tokarczuk Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2018	Frankenstein in Baghdad Ahmed Saadawi Translated by Jonathan Wright	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2018	Like a Fading Shadow Antonio Muñoz Molina Translated by Camilo A. Ramirez	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2018	The White Book Han Kang Translated by Deborah Smith	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2018	The World Goes On László Krasznahorkai Translated by John Batki, Ottilie Mulzet & George Szirtes	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2018	Vernon Subutex 1 Virginie Despentes Translated by Frank Wynne	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2017	Judas Amos Oz Translated by Nicholas de Lange	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2017	Mirror, Shoulder, Signal Dorthe Nors Translated by Misha Hoekstra	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2017	Compass Mathias Énard Translated by Charlotte Mandell	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2017	The Unseen Roy Jacobsen Translated by Don Bartlett & Don Shaw	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2017	Fever Dream Samanta Schweblin Translated by Megan McDowell	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2016	The Story of the Lost Child Elena Ferrante Translated by Ann Goldstein	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2016	A General Theory of Oblivion José Eduardo Agualusa Translated by Daniel Hahn	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2016	A Strangeness in My Mind Orhan Pamuk Translated by Ekin Oklap	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2016	A Whole Life Robert Seethaler Translated by Charlotte Collins	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2016	The Four Books Yan Lianke Translated by Carlos Rojas	International Booker Prize	shortlistedSource

Sources and coverage

Records retrieved 2026-09-18. Every winning year in the 2005–2026 coverage period is represented, allowing for the exceptions below. This completeness check covers years, not an independently verified count of every finalist. Each row links to its source.

Years without an award in this category, or outside its award cycle: 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014.

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