The 2023 International Booker Prize shortlist
The International Booker Prize has revealed the shortlist of six novels in contention for the 2023 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.
Below are the six shortlisted books for the 2023 International Booker Prize.
- Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel (translated by Rosalind Harvey)
- Standing Heavy by GauZ' (translated by Frank Wynne)
- Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov (translated by Angela Rodel)
- The Gospel According to the New World by Maryse Condé (translated by Richard Philcox)
- Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan (translated by Chi-Young Kim)
- Boulder by Eva Baltasar (translated by Julia Sanches)
