The 2024 International Booker Prize shortlist
The International Booker Prize has revealed the shortlist of six novels in contention for the 2024 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 2024 International Booker Prize.
- Not a River by Selva Almada, (translated by Annie McDermott)
- Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong (translated by Sora Kim-Russell and 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)
- Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck (translated by Michael Hofmann)
- The Details by Ia Genberg, (translated by Kira Josefsson)
