The 2024 International Booker Longlist
The International Booker Prize has revealed the ‘Booker Dozen’ of 13 novels in contention for the 2024 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. This year's longlist features work translated from Albanian, Dutch, German, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.
Below are the thirteen longlisted books for the 2023 International Booker Prize.
- The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov (translated by Boris Dralyuk)
- Simpatía by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón (translated by Noel Hernández González & Daniel Hahn)
- Not a River by Selva Almada (translated by Annie McDermott)
- Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener (translated by Julia Sanches)
- White Nights by Urszula Honek (translated by Kate Webster)
- 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)
- The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone (translated by Oonagh Stransky)
- Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo (translated by Leah Janeczko)
- A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare (translated by John Hodgson)
- Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck (translated by Michael Hofmann)
- The Details by Ia Genberg (translated by Kira Josefsson)
