2024 International Booker Prize

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 longlist was announced on 11 March. The shortlist of six books will be 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
    (translated by Michael Hofmann)
 
    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)
 
    Simpatía
    by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón
    (translated by Noel Hernández González, Daniel Hahn) 
 
    Kairos
    by Jenny Erpenbeck
    (translated by Michael Hofmann)
 
    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)