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 |
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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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