Booker Int'l

In 2015, The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize merged with the Man Booker International Prize.

2020 Winner
The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (Netherlands)

2020 Shortlist
The Enlightenment of The Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar (Iran)
The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezon Camara (Argentina)
Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann (France)
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor (Mexico)
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (Japan)

 2020 Longlist
Red Dog by Willem Anker (South Africa)
The Other Name: Septology I-II by Jon Fosse (Norway)
The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili (Georgia)
Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq (France)
Faces on the Tip of My Tongue by Emmanuelle Pagano (France)
Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin (Argentina)
Mac and His Problem by Enrique Vila-Matas (Spain)

 2019 Winner
Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi (Oman)

 2019 Shortlist
The Years by Annie Ernaux (France)
The Pine Islands by Marion Poschmann (Germany)
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (Poland)
The Shape of the Ruins by Juan Gabriel Vasquez (Colombia)
The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zeran (Chile and Italy)

2019 Longlist
Love in the New Millennium  by Can Xue (China)
At Dusk by Hwang Sok-yong (South Korea)
Jokes for the Gunmen by Mazen Maarouf (Iceland and Palestine)
Four Soldiers by Hubert Mingarelli (France)
Mouthful of Birds by Samantha Schweblin (Argentina and Italy)
Valerie by Sara Stridsberg (Sweden)
The Death of Murat Idrissi by Tommy Wieringa (Netherlands)

 2018 Winner
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (Poland)

2018 Shortlist
Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes (France)
The White Book by Han Kang (South Korea)
The World Goes On by Laszlo Krasznahorkai (Hungary)
Like a Falling Shadow by Antonio Munoz Molina (Spain)
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi (Iraq)

2018 Longlist
The 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet (France)
The Imposter by Javier Cercas (France)
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck (Germany)
Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz (Argentina)
The Flying Mountain by Christoph Ransmayr (Austria)
The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi (Taiwan)
The Dinner Guest by Gabriela Ybarra (Spain)

2017 Winner
A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossman (Israel)

2017 Shortlist
Compass by Mathias Enard (France)
The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen (Norway)
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors (Denmark)
Judas by Amos Oz (Israel)
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (Argentina)

2017 Longlist
Swallowing Mercury by Wioletta Greg (Poland)
War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans (Belgium)
The Traitor's Niche by Ismail Kadare (Albania)
Fish Have No Feet by Jon Kalman Stefansson (Iceland)
The Explosion Chronicles by Yan Lianke (China)
Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou (France)
Bricks and Mortar by Clemens Meyer (Germany)

2016 Winner
The Vegetarian by Han Kang (South Korea) (4 stars)

2016 Nominees
A General Theory of Oblivion by Jose Eduardo Agualusa (Angola)
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante (Italy)
A Strangeness in my Mind by Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler (Austria)
The Four Books by Yan Lianke (China)

 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

 2015 Winner
The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck (German)

 2015 Shortlist
By Night the Mountain Burns by Juan Tomas Avila (Spanish)
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami (Japanese)
F by Daniel Kehlmann (German)
In the Beginning Was the Sea by Tomas Gonzalez (Spanish)
While the Gods Were Sleeping by Erwin Mortier (Dutch)

 2014 Winner
The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim (Arabic)

 2014 Shortlist
A Man in Loveby Karl Ove Kanusgaard (Norwegian)
A Meal in Winter by Hubert Mingarelli (French)
The Mussel Feast by Birgit Vanderbeke (German)
Revenge by Yoko Ogawa (Japanese)
Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hirmoi Kawakami (Japanese)

 2013 Winner
The Detour by Gerbrand Bakker

 2013 Shortlist
Bundu by Chris Barnard
Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas
The Fall of Stone City by Ismail Kadare
Traveller of the Century by Andres Neuman
Trieste by Dasa Drndic

 2012 Winner
Blooms of Darkness by Aharon Appelfeld

2012 Shortlist
Alice by Judith Hermann (4 stars)
Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke
From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjon
New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani (4.5 stars)
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco

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