2025 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, 2024 and April 30, 2025.

The longlist has been announced. The shortlist of six books will be announced on 8 April. The winning title will be announced at a ceremony on Tuesday 20 May 2025.

Judges

  • Max Porter
  • Caleb Femi
  • Sana Goyal
  • Anton Hur
  • Beth Orton


Shortlist

   A Leopard-Skin Hat
   by Anne Serre
    (translated by Mark Hutchinson)
original language: French
 
Heart Lamp
    by Banu Mushtaq
    (translated by Deepa Bhasthi)
original language: Kannada
 
Perfection
    by Vincenzo Latronico
    (translated by Sophie Hughes)
original language: Italian
 
Under the Eye of the Big Bird
    by Hiromi Kawakami
    (translated by Asa Yoneda) 
original language: Japanese
 
Small Boat
    by Vincent Delecroix
    (translated by Helen Stevenson)
original language: French
 
On the Calculation of Volume I
    by Solvej Balle
    (translated by Barbara J. Haveland)
original language: Danish



Longlist

   

    A Leopard-Skin Hat
   by Anne Serre
    (translated by Mark Hutchinson)
original language: French
 
   On a Woman's Madness
    by Astrid Roemer
    (translated by Lucy Scott) 
original language: Dutch
 
   Heart Lamp
    by Banu Mushtaq
    (translated by Deepa Bhasthi)
original language: Kannada
 
    Perfection
    by Vincenzo Latronico
    (translated by Sophie Hughes)
original language: Italian
 
    Eurotrash
    by Christian Kracht
    (translated by Daniel Bowles)
original language: German
 
    Under the Eye of the Big Bird
    by Hiromi Kawakami
    (translated by Asa Yoneda) 
original language: Japanese
 
    Hunchback
    by Saou Ichikawa
    (translated by Polly Barton)
original language: Japanese 
 
    Small Boat
    by Vincent Delecroix
    (translated by Helen Stevenson)
original language: French
    
    Reservoir Bitches
    by Dahlia de la Cerda
    (translated by Julia Sanches Heather Cleary)
original language: Spanish
 
    Solenoid
    by Mircea Cărtărescu
    (translated by Sean Cotter)
original language: Romanian
 
    There's a Monster Behind the Door
    by Gaëlle Bélem
    (translated by Karen Fleetwood Laëtitia Saint-Loubert)
original language: French
 
    On the Calculation of Volume I
    by Solvej Balle
    (translated by Barbara J. Haveland)
original language: Danish
   
    The Book of Disappearance
    by Ibtisam Azem
    (translated by Sinan Antoon) 
 original language: Arabic