The longlist for the International Booker Prize 2025 has been announced! The International Booker Prize celebrates long-form fiction and short story collections from around the world, that have been translated into English. The 2025 longlist features 13 books, with 13 authors making their International Booker debut.
The International Booker Prize 2025 longlist:
The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem, translated from Arabic by Sinan Antoon
On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle, translated from Danish by Barbara J. Haveland (due for publication in Australia in April)
There's a Monster Behind the Door by Gaëlle Bélem, translated from French by Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia Saint-Loubert
Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated from Romanian by Sean Cotter
Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda, translated from Spanish by Heather Cleary and Julia Sanches
Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix, translated from French by Helen Stevenson (due for publication in the United Kingdom in April)
Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa, translated from Japanese by Polly Barton (due for publication in Australia in June)
Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami, translated from Japanese by Asa Yoneda
Eurotrash by Christian Kracht, translated from German by Daniel Bowles
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, translated from Italian by Sophie Hughes
Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi (due for publication in Australia in July)
On a Woman's Madness by Astrid Roemer, translated from Dutch by Lucy Scott
A Leopard-Skin Hat by Anne Serre, translated from French by Mark Hutchinson
Max Porter, chair of judges for the International Booker Prize 2025, says:
‘In these books people are sharing strategies for survival; they are cheating, lying, joking and innovating. Some people are no longer of this earth, or they are sending visions from the future or from parallel universes. These books bring us into the agony of family, workplace or nation-state politics, the near-spiritual secrecy of friendship, the inner architecture of erotic feeling, the banality of capitalism and the agitations of faith.
‘As a group of judges, we’ve been amazed at how differently we read, and we’ve come to adore that difference. We celebrate it, and we joyfully invite readers to join us. Bring your own difference to this list, we guarantee you will find much you recognise, but with any luck more you don’t recognise yet.’
The International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist of six books will be announced in April, and the final winner will be announced on 20 May. You can read more about the longlist and the International Booker Prize here.
