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International Booker Prize past winners

The International Booker Prize, established in 2005, is a prestigious award that recognizes an author's entire body of work translated into English. Since 2016, the prize has also been awarded for a single work of fiction translated into English, with the £50,000 prize split between the author and the translator.

Here’s a list of past winners:

Year Winner Country Translator Work
2005 Ismail Kadare Albania N/A N/A
2007 Chinua Achebe Nigeria N/A N/A
2009 Alice Munro Canada N/A N/A
2011 Philip Roth USA N/A N/A
2013 Lydia Davis USA N/A N/A
2015 László Krasznahorkai Hungary N/A N/A
2016 Han Kang South Korea Deborah Smith The Vegetarian
2017 David Grossman Israel Jessica Cohen A Horse Walks into a Bar
2018 Olga Tokarczuk Poland Jennifer Croft Flights
2019 Jokha al-Harthi Oman Marilyn Booth Celestial Bodies
2020 Marieke Lucas Rijneveld Netherlands Michele Hutchison The Discomfort of Evening
2021 Ahsan Ali Pakistan N/A The Secret Life of Pakistan
2022 Geetanjali Shree India Daisy Rockwell Tomb of Sand
2023 Georgi Gospodinov Bulgaria Angela Rodel Time Shelter
2024 Jenny Erpenbeck Germany Michael Hofmann Kairos


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