The International Booker Prize has revealed the ‘Booker Dozen’ of 13 novels in contention for the 2022 prize, which celebrates the finest works of translated fiction from around the world.

The prize is awarded every year for a single book that is translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland. It aims to encourage more publishing and reading of quality works of imagination from all over the world, and to give greater recognition to the role of translators.The contribution of both author and translator is given equal recognition, with the £50,000 prize split evenly between them.

The longlisted works originate from 12 countries across four continents and are translated from 11 languages – including Hindi for the first time. The list includes previous winners Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft, David Grossman and Jessica Cohen, alongside authors translated into English for the first time

Below are the thirteen longlisted books for the 2022 International Booker Prize.

• After the Sun, written by Jonas Eika, translated by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg from Danish
  
• Cursed Bunny, written by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur from Korean
  
• A New Name Septology VI-VII, written by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls from Norwegian
  
• More Than I Love My Life, written by David Grossman, translated by Jessica Cohen from Hebrew
  
• The Book of Mother, written by Violaine Huisman, translated by Leslie Camhi from French
  
• Heaven, written by Mieko Kawakami, translated by Samuel Bett and David Boyd from Japanese
  
• Paradais, written by Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes from Spanish
  
• Love in the Big City, written by Sang Young Park, translated by Anton Hur from Korean
  
• Happy Stories, Mostly, written by Norman Erikson Pasaribu, translated by Tiffany Tsao from Indonesian
  
• Elena Knows, written by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle from Spanish
  
• Phenotypes, written by Paulo Scott, translated by Daniel Hahn from Portuguese
  
• Tomb of Sand, written by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell from Hindi
  
• The Books of Jacob, written by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft from Polish
  

The shortlist for the prize will be announced on 7 April 2022, with the winner to be revealed on 26 May 2022. Find out more about the International Booker Prize here.