International Booker Prize is literary award for fiction translated into English, selected from entries published in the UK or Ireland between May 1, 2023 and April 30, 2024.
The shortlist of six books were announced on 9 April. The winning title will be announced at a ceremony on Tuesday 21 May 2024.
Judges
- Eleanor Wachtel
- Natalie Diaz
- William Kentridge
- Romesh Gunesekera
- Aaron Robertson
Shortlist
Not a River
by Selva Almada
(translated by Annie McDermott)
Kairos
by Jenny Erpenbeck
The Details
by Ia Genberg
(translated by Kira Josefsson)
Mater 2-10
by Hwang Sok-yong
(translated by Sora Kim-Russell Youngjae Josephine Bae)
What I'd Rather Not Think About
by Jente Posthuma
(translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey)
Crooked Plow
by Itamar Vieira Junior
(translated by Johnny Lorenz)
Longlist
Not a River
by Selva Almada
(translated by Annie McDermott)
SimpatÃa
by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón
(translated by Noel Hernández González, Daniel Hahn)
Kairos
by Jenny Erpenbeck
The Details
by Ia Genberg
(translated by Kira Josefsson)
White Nights
by Urszula Honek
(translated by Kate Webster)
Mater 2-10
by Hwang Sok-yong
(translated by Sora Kim-Russell Youngjae Josephine Bae)
A Dictator Calls
by Ismail Kadare
(translated by John Hodgson)
The Silver Bone
by Andrey Kurkov
(translated by Boris Dralyuk)
What I'd Rather Not Think About
by Jente Posthuma
(translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey)
Lost on Me
by Veronica Raimo
(translated by Leah Janeczko)
The House on Via Gemito
by Domenico Starnone
(translated by Oonagh Stransky)
Crooked Plow
by Itamar Vieira Junior
(translated by Johnny Lorenz)
Undiscovered
by Gabriela Wiener
(translated by Julia Sanches)
