The International Booker Prize 2024
The International Booker Prize, which is the world’s most prestigious prize for translated literature, has just announced the winner for this year’s prize, Kairos by Germany's Jenny Erpenbeck! In addition, we've listed all of the finalists here, with the exception of Urszula Honek's White Nights, which is not yet available in the U.S. There is a wide variety of voices represented here, with books originally published in Korean, Swedish, Spanish, and more all making appearances.
12 books
WINNER – Translated from German by Michael Hofmann
Los Angeles Review of Books & National Book Critics Circle
Kairos
Jenny Erpenbeck"An intimate and devastating story of the path of two lovers through the ruins of a relationship, set against the backdrop of a seismic period in European history."
Los Angeles Review of Books & National Book Critics CircleHardcover, 2023
$25.95$12.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Shortlist – Translated from Swedish by Kira Josefsson
Wildfire Books
The Details
Ia Genberg"In exhilarating, provocative prose, Ia Genberg reveals an intimate and powerful celebration of what it means to be human."
Wildfire BooksHardcover, 2023
$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Shortlist – Translated from Dutch by Sarah Timmer Harvey
The Saturday Paper
What I'd Rather Not Think about: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024
Jente Posthuma"A deeply moving exploration of grief, told in brief, precise vignettes and full of gentle melancholy and surprising humour."
The Saturday PaperPaperback, 2023
$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Shortlist – Translated from Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz
Eric Nguyen & ArtReview_
Crooked Plow
Itamar Vieira Junior"A fascinating and gripping story about the lives of subsistence farmers in the Brazil's poorest region."
Eric Nguyen & ArtReview_Paperback, 2023
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Shortlist – Translated from Spanish by Annie McDermott
Ella Creamer &
Not a River
Selva Almada"Selva Almada’s novel is the finest expression yet of her compelling style and singular vision of rural Argentina."
Harshaneeyam
Paperback, 2024
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Shortlist – Translated from Korean by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae
Mater 2-10: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024
Hwang Sok-Yong"An epic, multi-generational tale that threads together a century of Korean history."
Paperback, 2023
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Finalist – Translated from Albanian by John Hodgson
Counterpoint Press
A Dictator Calls
Ismail Kadare"A fascinating meditation on Soviet Russia, authoritarianism, power structures and a period of great writers."
Counterpoint PressPaperback, 2023
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Finalist – Translated from Italian by Leah Janeczko
Literary Hub &
Lost on Me
Veronica Raimo"Narrated in a voice as wryly ironic as it is warm and affectionate, Lost on Me seductively explores the slippery relationship between deceitfulness and creativity."
The Bookseller
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Finalist – Translated from Italian by Oonagh Stransky
National Book Critics Circle & Not That John Williams
The House on Via Gemito
Domenico Starnone"Narrated against the vivid backdrop of Naples in the 1960s, The House on Via Gemito has established itself as a masterpiece of contemporary Italian literature."
National Book Critics Circle & Not That John WilliamsHardcover, 2023
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Finalist – Translated from Spanish by Julia Sanches
Undiscovered
Gabriela Wiener"A provocative, irreverent autobiographical novel that reckons with the legacy of colonialism through one Peruvian woman's family ties to both colonised and coloniser."
Hardcover, 2023
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book