International Booker Prize Longlist, 2025
Announced February 25, 2025
The International Booker Prize is the world's most influential award for translated fiction. The prize, which is awarded annually, celebrates the best works of long-form fiction or collections of short stories translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland. It recognizes the vital work of translators, with the £50,000 prize money divided equally between authors and translators.
The 2025 International Long List was announced on February 25, 2025. This year's longlisted books—comprised 11 novels and two short story collections— translated from 10 languages including, for the first time, Kannada and Romanian. Books published in the U.K. or Ireland between May 1, 2024 and April 30, 2025 were eligible for this year's prize. Authors of any nationality are eligible. Publishers submitted 154 books for consideration.
The 2025 International Booker Long List
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
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
Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa, translated from Japanese by Polly Barton
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
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
Eurotrash seems to have some political, uh...currency, that might be of timely interest to us lovers of non-fiction prose.
Thank you, Kathleen.
Solenoid is published by Pushkin, a publisher started by the son of a close family friend. They must be so excited!