The International Booker Prize

 The International Booker Prize is a prestigious literary award that was established in 2005. It is awarded annually to a work of fiction that is translated into English. The prize is unique in that it recognizes both the author and the translator, celebrating the art of literary translation as well as the original writing.

Here's a list of International Booker Prize Winners from its inception:

Booker Prize Winners (1969–2024)

Year	Winner	Book Title
2024	TBD	TBD
2023	Shehan Karunatilaka	The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
2022	Shehan Karunatilaka	The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
2021	Ahsan Ali	The Secret Life
2020	Damon Galgut	The Promise
2019	Douglas Stuart	Shuggie Bain
2018	Bernardine Evaristo	Girl, Woman, Other
2017	Anna Burns	Milkman
2016	George Saunders	Lincoln in the Bardo
2015	Paul Beatty	The Sellout
2014	Marlon James	A Brief History of Seven Killings
2013	Richard Flanagan	The Narrow Road to the Deep North
2012	Eleanor Catton	The Luminaries
2011	Hilary Mantel	Bring Up the Bodies
2010	Julian Barnes	The Sense of an Ending
2009	Howard Jacobson	The Finkler Question
2008	Hilary Mantel	Wolf Hall
2007	Aravind Adiga	The White Tiger
2006	Anne Enright	The Gathering
2005	Kiran Desai	The Inheritance of Loss
2004	John Banville	The Sea
2003	Alan Hollinghurst	The Line of Beauty
2002	DBC Pierre	Vernon God Little
2001	Yann Martel	Life of Pi
2000	Peter Carey	True History of the Kelly Gang
1999	Margaret Atwood	The Blind Assassin
1998	J.M. Coetzee	Disgrace
1997	Ian McEwan	Amsterdam
1996	Arundhati Roy	The God of Small Things
1995	Graham Swift	Last Orders
1994	Pat Barker	The Ghost Road
1993	James Kelman	How Late It Was, How Late
1992	Roddy Doyle	Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
1991	Michael Ondaatje	The English Patient
1990	Barry Unsworth	Sacred Hunger
1989	Ben Okri	The Famished Road
1988	A.S. Byatt	Possession: A Romance
1987	Kazuo Ishiguro	The Remains of the Day
1986	Peter Carey	Oscar and Lucinda
1985	Penelope Lively	Moon Tiger
1984	Kingsley Amis	The Old Devils
1983	Keri Hulme	The Bone People
1982	Anita Brookner	Hotel du Lac
1981	J.M. Coetzee	Life and Times of Michael K
1980	Thomas Keneally	Schindler's Ark
1979	Salman Rushdie	Midnight's Children
1978	William Golding	Rites of Passage
1977	Penelope Fitzgerald	Offshore
1976	Iris Murdoch	The Sea, the Sea
1975	Paul Scott	Staying On
1974	David Storey	Saville
1973	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	Heat and Dust
1972	Stanley Middleton	Holiday
1971	Nadine Gordimer	The Conservationist
1970	J.G. Farrell	The Siege of Krishnapur
1969	V.S. Naipaul	In a Free State
1969	Bernice Rubens	The Elected Member

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This special prize highlights translated works, bringing global literature to English-speaking readers while recognizing the translators for their role in making international voices heard.