The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (1990–2015) was a British literary award. It was inaugurated by British newspaper The Independent to honour contemporary fiction in translation in the United Kingdom. The award was first launched in 1990 and ran for five years before falling into abeyance. It was revived in 2001 with the financial support of Arts Council England. Beginning in 2011 the administration of the prize was taken over by BookTrust, but retaining the "Independent" in the name. In 2015, the award was disbanded in a "reconfiguration" in which it was merged with the Man Booker International Prize.^[1]

Entries (fiction or short stories) were published in English translation in the UK in the year preceding the award by a living author. The prize acknowledged both the winning novelist and translator, each being awarded £5,000 and a magnum of champagne from drinks sponsor Champagne Taittinger.

Award	Author	Country	Language	Translator	Title Original title
Winner	Orhan Pamuk	Turkey	Turkish	Victoria Holbrook	The White Castle Beyaz Kale

Award	Author	Country	Language	Translator	Title Original title
Winner	Milan Kundera	Czechia France	Czech	Peter Kussi	Immortality Nesmrtelnost

Award	Author	Country	Language	Translator	Title Original title	Notes
Winner	Simon Leys	Belgium	French	Patricia Clancy	The Death of Napoleon La Mort de Napoléon	[2]
Shortlist	Slavenka Drakulić	Croatia	Croatian	Ellen Elias-Bursać	Holograms of Fear Hologrami straha
	Paweł Huelle	Poland	Polish	Antonia Lloyd-Jones	Who Was David Weiser? Weiser Dawidek
	Yaşar Kemal	Turkey	Turkish	Thilda Kemal	To Crush the Serpent Yılanı Öldürseler
	Ivan Klíma	Czechia	Czech	A. G. Brain	Judge on Trial Soudce z milosti
	Dacia Maraini	Italy	Italian	Dick Kitto Elspeth Spottiswood	The Silent Duchess La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa
	Carlo Mazzantini	Italy	Italian	Simonetta Wenkert	In Search of a Glorious Death A cercar la bella morte
	Érik Orsenna	France	French	Jeremy Leggatt	Love and Empire L'Exposition coloniale
	Giorgio Pressburger	Italy	Italian	Piers Spence	The Law of White Spaces La legge degli spazi bianchi
	Jean Rouaud	France	French	Ralph Manheim	Fields of Glory Les Champs d'honneur
	Leonardo Sciascia	Italy	Italian	Joseph Farrell Marie Evans	The Knight and Death Il cavaliere e la morte
	Antonio Tabucchi	Italy	Italian	Tim Parks	Vanishing Point Il filo dell'orizzonte

Award	Author	Country	Language	Translator	Title Original title	Notes
Winner	José Saramago	Portugal	Portuguese	Giovanni Pontiero	The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis	[3]
Shortlist	Juan Goytisolo	Spain	Spanish	Helen Lane	Makbara
	Günter Grass	Germany	German	Ralph Manheim	The Call of the Toad Unkenrufe
	Ismail Kadare	Albania	Albanian	Barbara Bray (translation from French)	The Palace of Dreams Pallati i ëndrrave
	Ivan Klíma	Czechia	Czech	Paul Wilson	My Golden Trades Moje zlatá řemesla
	A. B. Yehoshua	Israel	Hebrew	Hillel Halkin	Mr. Mani מר מאני

Award	Author	Country	Language	Translator	Title Original title	Notes
Winner	Bảo Ninh	Vietnam	Vietnamese	Frank Palmos Phan Thanh Hảo	The Sorrow of War Nỗi buồn chiến tranh	[4][5][6][7]
Shortlist	Shūsaku Endō	Japan	Japanese	Van C. Gessel	Deep River 深い河
	Margriet de Moor	Netherlands	Dutch	Paul Vincent	First Grey, Then White, Then Blue Eerst grijs dan wit dan blauw
	Isabel Allende	Chile	Spanish	Margaret Sayers Peden	The Infinite Plan El plan infinito
	Amos Oz	Israel	Hebrew	Nicholas de Lange	Fima המצב השלישי
	Italo Calvino	Italy	Italian	Tim Parks	The Road to San Giovanni La strada di San Giovanni

Award	Author	Country	Language	Translator	Title Original title
Winner	Gert Hofmann	Germany	German	Michael Hofmann	The Film Explainer Der Kinoerzähler

Prize in abeyance.

Award	Author	Country	Language	Translator	Title Original title	Notes
Winner	Marta Morazzoni	Italy	Italian	Emma Rose	The Alphonse Courrier Affair Il caso Courrier
Shortlist	Marc Dugain	France	French	Howard Curtis	The Officers' Ward La chambre des officiers
	Michel Houellebecq	France	French	Frank Wynne	Atomised Les particules élémentaires
	Antonio Tabucchi	Italy	Italian	Margaret Sayers Peden	The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro La testa perduta di Damasceno Monteiro
	May Telmissany	Egypt Canada	Arabic	Roger Allen	Dunyazad دنيا زاد
	Hans-Ulrich Treichel	Germany	German	Carol Brown Janeaway	Lost Der Verlorene

Award	Author	Country	Language	Translator	Title Original title	Notes
Winner	W. G. Sebald	Germany	German	Anthea Bell	Austerlitz
Shortlist	Agnès Desarthe	France	French	Adriana Hunter	Five Photos of My Wife Cinq photos de ma femme
	Dai Sijie	France	French	Ina Rilke	Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise
	Andrey Kurkov	Ukraine	Russian	George Bird	Death and the Penguin Смерть постороннего
	Hanan al-Shaykh	Lebanon	Arabic	Catherine Cobham	Only in London انها لندن يا عزيزي
	H.M. van den Brink	Netherlands	Dutch	Paul Vincent	On the Water Over het water

Award	Author	Country	Language	Translator	Title Original title	Notes
Winner	Per Olov Enquist	Sweden	Swedish	Tiina Nunnally	The Visit of the Royal Physician Livläkarens besök	[8]
Shortlist	Frédéric Beigbeder	France	French	Adriana Hunter	99 Francs
	Peter Stephan Jungk	Austria	German	Michael Hofmann	The Snowflake Constant Tigor
	Mario Vargas Llosa	Peru	Spanish	Edith Grossman	The Feast of the Goat La fiesta del Chivo
	José Saramago	Portugal	Portuguese	Margaret Jull Costa	The Cave A Caverna
	José Carlos Somoza	Spain	Spanish	Sonia Soto	The Athenian Murders La caverna de las ideas
Longlist	Umberto Eco	Italy	Italian	William Weaver	Baudolino
	Jens Christian Grøndahl	Denmark	Danish	Anne Born	Lucca
	Norbert Gstrein	Austria	German	Anthea Bell	The English Years Die englischen Jahre
	Milton Hatoum	Brazil	Portuguese	John Gledson	The Brothers Dois Irmãos
	Michel Houellebecq	France	French	Frank Wynne	Platform Plateforme
	Milan Kundera	Czechia France	French	Linda Asher	Ignorance L'Ignorance
	Amin Maalouf	Lebanon France	French	Barbara Bray	Balthasar's Odyssey Le Périple de Baldassare
	Patrícia Melo	Brazil	Portuguese	Clifford E. Landers	Inferno
	Arturo Pérez-Reverte	Spain	Spanish	Margaret Sayers Peden	The Nautical Chart La carta esférica
	Atiq Rahimi	Afghanistan France	Dari	Erdağ Göknar	Earth and Ashes خاکستر و خاک

Award	Author	Country	Language	Translator	Title Original title	Notes
Winner	Javier Cercas	Spain	Spanish	Anne McLean	Soldiers of Salamis Soldados de Salamina	[9][10]
Shortlist	Juan Marsé	Spain	Spanish	Nick Caistor	Lizard Tails Rabos de lagartija
	Elke Schmitter	Germany	German	Carol Brown Janeway	Mrs Sartoris Frau Sartoris
	Ricardo Piglia	Argentina	Spanish	Amanda Hopkinson	Money to Burn Plata quemada
	Luther Blissett	Italy	Italian	Shaun Whiteside	Q
	Mahi Binebine	Morocco	French	Lulu Norman	Welcome to Paradise Cannibales
Longlist	Lars Saabye Christensen	Norway Denmark	Norwegian	Kenneth Stevens	The Half Brother Halvbroren
	Gil Courtemanche	Canada	French	Patricia Claxton	A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali
	Turki al-Hamad	Saudi Arabia	Arabic	Robin Bray	Adama العدامة
	Javier Marías	Spain	Spanish	Esther Allen	Dark Back of Time Negra espalda del tiempo
	Sten Nadolny	Germany	German	Ralph Freedman	The Discovery of Slowness Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit
	Per Petterson	Norway	Norwegian	Anne Born	In the Wake I kjølvannet
	Shan Sa	China France	French	Adriana Hunter	The Girl Who Played Go La joueuse de go
	Fred Vargas	France	French	David Bellos	Have Mercy on Us All Pars vite et reviens tard
	Ye Zhaoyan	China	Mandarin	Michael Berry	Nanjing 1937: A Love Story 一九三七年的爱情
	Akira Yoshimura	Japan	Japanese	Mark Ealey	One Man's Justice 遠い日の戦争

Award	Author	Country	Language	Translator	Title Original title	Notes
Winner	Frédéric Beigbeder	France	French	Frank Wynne	Windows on the World	[11]
Shortlist	Chico Buarque	Brazil	Portuguese	Alison Entrekin	Budapest Budapeste
	Irina Denezhkina	Russia	Russian	Andrew Bromfield	Give Me (Songs for Lovers) Дай мне!
	Xiaolu Guo	China United Kingdom	Chinese	Cindy Carter	Village of Stone 我心中的石头镇
	Orhan Pamuk	Turkey	Turkish	Maureen Freely	Snow Kar
	Elif Şafak	Turkey United Kingdom	Turkish	Müge Göçek	The Flea Palace Bit Palas
Longlist	David Albahari	Serbia	Serbian	Ellen Elias-Bursać	Götz and Meyer Gec i Majer
	Merete Morken Andersen	Norway	Norwegian	Barbara J. Haveland	Oceans of Time Hav av tid
	Mia Couto	Mozambique	Portuguese	David Brookshaw	The Last Flight of the Flamingo O Último Voo do Flamingo
	Edgardo Cozarinsky	Argentina	Spanish	Nick Caistor	The Bride from Odessa La novia de Odessa
	Viktor Yerofeyev	Russia	Russian	Andrew Reynolds	Life with an Idiot Жизнь с идиотом
	Turki al-Hamad	Saudi Arabia	Arabic	Paul Starkey	Shumaisi الشميسي
	Torgny Lindgren	Sweden	Swedish	Tom Geddes	Hash Pölsan
	Enrico Remmert	Italy	Italian	Aubrey Botsford	The Ballad of the Low Lifes La ballata delle canaglie
	José Saramago	Portugal	Portuguese	Margaret Jull Costa	The Double O Homem Duplicado
	Carlos Ruiz Zafón	Spain	Spanish	Lucia Graves	The Shadow of the Wind La sombra del viento

Award	Author	Country	Language	Translator	Title Original title	Publisher	Judges	Notes
Winner	Per Petterson	Norway	Norwegian	Anne Born	Out Stealing Horses Ut og stjæle hester	Harvill Secker	Boyd Tonkin Paul Bailey Margaret Busby Maureen Freely Kate Griffin	[12][13]
Shortlist	Paweł Huelle	Poland	Polish	Antonia Lloyd-Jones	Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz: Z listów do Hrabala	Serpent's Tail
	Tahar Ben Jelloun	Morocco	French	Linda Coverdale	This Blinding Absence of Light Cette aveuglante absence de lumière	Penguin Books
	Imre Kertész	Hungary	Hungarian	Tim Wilkinson	Fatelessness Sorstalanság	Harvill Secker
	Magda Szabó	Hungary	Hungarian	Len Rix	The Door Az ajtó	Harvill Secker
	Dubravka Ugrešić	Croatia	Croatian	Michael Henry Heim	The Ministry of Pain Ministarstvo boli	Saqi Books
Longlist	Tonino Benacquista	France	French	Adriana Hunter	Someone Else Quelqu'un d'autre	Bitter Lemon Press
	Stefan Chwin	Poland	Polish	Philip Boehm	Death in Danzig Hanemann	Secker & Warburg
	Philippe Claudel	France	French	Adriana Hunter	Grey Souls Les Âmes grises	Weidenfeld & Nicolson
	Marie Darrieussecq	France	French	Ian Monk	White	Faber & Faber
	Karen Duve	Germany	German	Anthea Bell	This Is Not a Love Song Dies ist kein Liebeslied	Bloomsbury
	David Grossman	Israel	Hebrew	Jessica Cohen	Lovers and Strangers בגוף אני מבינה	Bloomsbury
	Judith Hermann	Germany	German	Margot Bettauer Dembo	Nothing but Ghosts Nichts als Gespenster	Fourth Estate
	Ellen Mattson	Sweden	Swedish	Sarah Death	Snow Snö	Jonathan Cape
	Haruki Murakami	Japan	Japanese	Philip Gabriel	Kafka on the Shore 海辺のカフカ	Vintage Books
	Dai Sijie	China France	French	Ina Rilke	Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch Le complexe de Di	Chatto & Windus

Award	Author	Country	Language	Translator	Title Original title	Publisher	Notes
Winner	José Eduardo Agualusa	Angola	Portuguese	Daniel Hahn	The Book of Chameleons O Vendedor de Passados	Arcadia Books	[14][15]
Shortlist	Per Olov Enquist	Sweden	Swedish	Tiina Nunnally	The Story of Blanche and Marie Boken om Blanche och Marie	Vintage
	Vangelis Hatziyannidis	Greece	Greek	Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife	Four Walls Οι τέσσερις τοίχοι	Marion Boyars
	Javier Marías	Spain	Spanish	Margaret Jull Costa	Your Face Tomorrow 2: Dance and Dream Tu rostro mañana 2: Baile y sueño	New Directions
	Eva Menasse	Austria	German	Anthea Bell	Vienna	Phoenix
	Dag Solstad	Norway	Norwegian	Sverre Lyngstad	Shyness and Dignity Genanse og verdighet	Graywolf Press
Longlist	Kader Abdolah	Iran Netherlands	Dutch	Susan Massotty	My Father's Notebook Spijkerschrift	Canongate
	Niccolò Ammaniti	Italy	Italian	Jonathan Hunt	Steal You Away Ti prendo e ti porto via	Canongate
	Javier Cercas	Spain	Spanish	Anne McLean	The Speed of Light La velocidad de la luz	Bloomsbury
	Edgardo Cozarinsky	Argentina	Spanish	Nick Caistor	The Moldavian Pimp El rufián moldavo	Harvill Secker
	Jenny Erpenbeck	Germany	German	Susan Bernofsky	The Old Child Geschichte vom alten Kind	Portobello
	Faïza Guène	France	French	Sarah Adams	Just Like Tomorrow Kiffe kiffe demain	Chatto & Windus
	Ismail Kadare	Albania	Albanian	David Bellos (translation from French)	The Successor Pasardhësi	Canongate
	Ma Jian	China United Kingdom	Chinese	Flora Drew	Stick Out Your Tongue 亮出你的舌苔或空空荡荡	Chatto & Windus
	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o	Kenya	Kikuyu	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o	Wizard of the Crow Mũrogi wa Kagogo	Harvill Secker
	Leonardo Padura	Cuba	Spanish	Peter Bush	Havana Black Paisaje de otoño	Bitter Lemon
	Atiq Rahimi	Afghanistan France	Dari	Sarah Maguire Yama Yari	A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear هزار خانه خواب و اختناق	Chatto & Windus
	José Saramago	Portugal	Portuguese	Margaret Jull Costa	Seeing Ensaio sobre a Lucidez	Harvill Secker
	Elif Şafak	Turkey United Kingdom	Turkish	Brendan Freely	The Gaze Mahrem	Marion Boyars
	Linn Ullmann	Norway	Norwegian	Barbara Haveland	Grace Nåde	Picador

Award	Author	Country	Language	Translator	Title Original title	Notes
Winner	Paul Verhaeghen	Belgium	Dutch	Paul Verhaeghen	Omega Minor	[16]
Shortlist	Paweł Huelle	Poland	Polish	Antonia Lloyd Jones	Castorp
	Daniel Kehlmann	Germany Austria	German	Carol Brown Janeway	Measuring the World Die Vermessung der Welt
	Bengt Ohlsson	Sweden	Swedish	Silvester Mazzarella	Gregorius
	Lars Saabye Christensen	Norway Denmark	Norwegian	Don Barlett	The Model Modellen
	Marlene van Niekerk	South Africa	Afrikaans	Michiel Heyns	The Way of the Women Agaat
Longlist	Alaa Al Aswany	Egypt	Arabic	Humphrey Davies	The Yacoubian Building عمارة يعقوبيان
	Jenny Erpenbeck	Germany	German	Susan Bernofsky	The Book of Words Wörterbuch
	Bi Feiyu	China	Chinese	Howard Goldblatt	The Moon Opera 青衣
	Ismail Kadare	Albania	Albanian	David Bellos (translation from French)	Agamemnon's Daughter Vajza e Agamemnonit
	Sayed Kashua	Israel	Hebrew	Miraim Shlesinger	Let It Be Morning ויהי בוקר
	Erwin Mortier	Belgium	Dutch	Ina Rilke	Shutterspeed Sluitertijd
	Alan Pauls	Argentina	Spanish	Nick Caistor	The Past El pasado
	Peter Pišťanek	Slovakia	Slovak	Peter Petro	Rivers of Babylon
	Laura Restrepo	Colombia	Spanish	Natasha Wimmer	Delirium Delirio
	Yasmina Traboulsi	France	French	Polly McLean	Bahia Blues Les enfants de la Place
	Enrique Vila-Matas	Spain	Spanish	Jonathan Dunne	Montano's Malady El mal de Montano

Award	Author	Country	Language	Translator	Title Original title	Notes
Winner	Evelio Rosero	Colombia	Spanish	Anne McLean	The Armies Los ejércitos
Shortlist	Céline Curiol	France	French	Sam Richard	Voice Over Voix sans issue
	Ma Jian	China United Kingdom	Chinese	Flora Drew	Beijing Coma 北京植物人
	Ismail Kadare	Albania	Albanian	David Bellos (translation from French)	The Siege Kështjella
	Juan Gabriel Vásquez	Colombia	Spanish	Anne McLean	The Informers Los informantes
	A. B. Yehoshua	Israel	Hebrew	Stuart Schoffman	Friendly Fire אש ידידותית
Longlist	Sjón	Iceland	Icelandic	Victoria Cribb	The Blue Fox Skugga-Baldur
	José Eduardo Agualusa	Angola	Portuguese	Daniel Hahn	My Father's Wives As Mulheres de Meu Pai
	Dag Solstad	Norway	Norwegian	Sverre Lyngstad	Novel 11, Book 18 Ellevte roman, bok atten
	Yōko Ogawa	Japan	Japanese	Stephen Snyder	The Diving Pool 妊娠カレンダー
	Eshkol Nevo	Israel	Hebrew	Sondra Silverston	Homesick ארבעה בתים וגעגוע
	Linn Ullmann	Norway	Norwegian	Sarah Death	A Blessed Child Et velsignet barn
	Thomas Glavinic	Austria	German	John Brownjohn	Night Work Die Arbeit der Nacht
	György Dragomán	Hungary	Hungarian	Paul Olchvary	The White King A fehér király
	Alexander Ahndoril	Sweden	Swedish	Sarah Death	The Director Regissören
	Saša Stanišić	Bosnia and Herzegovina Germany	German	Anthea Bell	How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert

Award	Author	Country	Language	Translator	Title Original title	Publisher	Notes
Winner	Philippe Claudel	France	French	John Cullen	Brodeck's Report Le Rapport de Brodeck	MacLehose Press	[17]
Shortlist	Julia Franck	Germany	German	Anthea Bell	The Blind Side of the Heart Die Mittagsfrau	Harvill Secker
	Pietro Grossi	Italy	Italian	Howard Curtis	Fists Pugni	Pushkin Press
	Alain Mabanckou	Congo France	French	Helen Stevenson	Broken Glass Verre cassé	Serpent's Tail
	Sankar	India	Bengali	Arunava Sinha	Chowringhee চৌরঙ্গী	Atlantic Books
	Rafik Schami	Syria Germany	German	Anthea Bell	The Dark Side of Love Die dunkle Seite der Liebe	Arabia Books
Longlist	Boris Akunin	Russia	Russian	Andrew Bromfield	The Coronation Коронация, или Последний из романов	Weidenfeld & Nicolson
	Ketil Bjørnstad	Norway	Norwegian	Deborah Dawkin Erik Skuggevik	To Music Til musikken	Maia Press
	Hassan Blasim	Iraq Finland	Arabic	Jonathan Wright	The Madman of Freedom Square مجنون ساحة الحرية	Comma Press
	Elias Khoury	Lebanon	Arabic	Humphrey Davies	Yalo يالو	MacLehose Press
	Jonathan Littell	United States France	French	Charlotte Mandell	The Kindly Ones Les Bienveillantes	Chatto & Windus
	Javier Marías	Spain	Spanish	Margaret Jull Costa	Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell Tu rostro mañana 3: Veneno y sombra y adiós	Chatto & Windus
	Yōko Ogawa	Japan	Japanese	Stephen Snyder	The Housekeeper and the Professor 博士の愛した数式	Harvill Secker
	Claudia Piñeiro	Argentina	Spanish	Miranda France	Thursday Night Widows Las viudas de los jueves	Bitter Lemon
	Bahaa Taher	Egypt	Arabic	Humphrey Davies	Sunset Oasis واحة الغروب	Sceptre Press

Award	Author	Country	Language	Translator	Title Original title	Publisher	Notes
Winner	Santiago Roncagliolo	Peru	Spanish	Edith Grossman	Red April Abril rojo	Atlantic Books	[18]
Shortlist	Marcelo Figueras	Argentina	Spanish	Margaret Jull Costa	Kamchatka	Atlantic Books
	Alberto Barrera Tyszka	Venezuela	Spanish	Howard Curtis	The Sickness La enfermedad	MacLehose Press
	Jenny Erpenbeck	Germany	German	Susan Bernofsky	Visitation Heimsuchung	Portobello Books
	Orhan Pamuk	Turkey	Turkish	Maureen Freely	The Museum of Innocence Masumiyet Müzesi	Faber & Faber
	Per Petterson	Norway	Norwegian	Charlotte Barslund Per Petterson	I Curse the River of Time Jeg forbanner tidens elv	Harvill Secker
Longlist	Véronique Olmi	France	French	Adriana Hunter	Beside the Sea Bord de mer	Peirene Press
	David Grossman	Israel	Hebrew	Jessica Cohen	To the End of the Land אשה בורחת מבשורה	Jonathan Cape
	Daniel Kehlmann	Germany Austria	German	Carol Brown Janeway	Fame Ruhm	Quercus
	Juan Gabriel Vásquez	Colombia	Spanish	Anne McLean	The Secret History of Costaguana Historia secreta de Costaguana	Bloomsbury
	Michał Witkowski	Poland	Polish	W. Martin	Lovetown Lubiewo	Portobello Books
	Jáchym Topol	Czechia	Czech	David Short	Gargling with Tar Kloktat dehet	Portobello Books
	Juli Zeh	Germany	German	Christine Lo	Dark Matter Schilf	Harvill Secker
	Shuichi Yoshida	Japan	Japanese	Philip Gabriel	Villain 悪人	Harvill Secker
	Per Wästberg	Sweden	Swedish	Tom Geddes	The Journey of Anders Sparrman Anders Sparrmans resa	Granta

Award	Author	Country	Language	Translator	Title Original title	Publisher	Notes
Winner	Aharon Appelfeld	Israel	Hebrew	Jeffrey M. Green	Blooms of Darkness פרחי האפלה	Alma Books	[19][20]
Shortlist	Judith Hermann	Germany	German	Margot Bettauer Dembo	Alice	Clerkenwell Press
	Yan Lianke	China	Chinese	Cindy Carter	Dream of Ding Village 丁庄梦	Corsair
	Sjón	Iceland	Icelandic	Victoria Cribb	From the Mouth of the Whale Rökkurbýsnir	Telegram Books
	Diego Marani	Italy	Italian	Judith Landry	New Finnish Grammar Nuova grammatica finlandese	Dedalus Books
	Umberto Eco	Italy	Italian	Richard Dixon	The Prague Cemetery Il cimitero di Praga	Harvill Secker
Longlist	Haruki Murakami	Japan	Japanese	Jay Rubin	1Q84 (Book 1 and 2)	Harvill Secker
	Steve Sem-Sandberg	Sweden	Swedish	Sarah Death	The Emperor of Lies De fattiga i Łódź	Faber & Faber
	Tristan Garcia	France	French	Marion Duvert Lorin Stein	Hate: A Romance La meilleure part des hommes	Faber & Faber
	Matthias Politycki	Germany	German	Anthea Bell	Next World Novella Jenseitsnovelle	Peirene Press
	Péter Nádas	Hungary	Hungarian	Imre Goldstein	Parallel Stories Párhuzamos történetek	Jonathan Cape
	Shin Kyung-sook	South Korea	Korean	Chi-Young Kim	Please Look After Mom 엄마를 부탁해	Weidenfeld & Nicolson
	Dag Solstad	Norway	Norwegian	Agnes Scott Langeland	Professor Andersen's Night Professor Andersens natt	Harvill Secker
	Amos Oz	Israel	Hebrew	Nicholas De Lange	Scenes from Village Life תמונות מחיי הכפר	Chatto & Windus
	Bernardo Atxaga	Spain	Basque	Margaret Jull Costa (translation from Spanish)	Seven Houses in France Zazpi etxe Frantzian	Harvill Secker

Award	Author	Country	Language	Translator	Title Original title	Publisher	Notes
Winner	Gerbrand Bakker	Netherlands	Dutch	David Colmer	The Detour De omweg	Harvill Secker	[21][22]
Shortlist	Chris Barnard	South Africa	Afrikaans	Michiel Heyns	Bundu Boendoe	Alma Books
	Daša Drndić	Croatia	Croatian	Ellen Elias-Bursać	Trieste Sonnenschein	MacLehose Press
	Ismail Kadare	Albania	Albanian	John Hodgson	The Fall of the Stone City Darka e gabuar	Canongate Books
	Andrés Neuman	Argentina	Spanish	Nick Caistor Lorenza García	Traveller of the Century El viajero del siglo	Pushkin Press
	Enrique Vila-Matas	Spain	Spanish	Rosalind Harvey Anne McLean	Dublinesque Dublinesca	Harvill Secker
Longlist	Laurent Binet	France	French	Sam Taylor	HHhH	Harvill Secker
	Paweł Huelle	Poland	Polish	Antonia Lloyd-Jones	Cold Sea Stories Opowieści chłodnego morza	Comma Press
	Pia Juul	Denmark	Danish	Martin Aitken	The Murder of Halland Mordet på Halland	Peirene Press
	Khaled Khalifa	Syria	Arabic	Leri Price	In Praise of Hatred مدح الكراهية	Doubleday
	Karl Ove Knausgård	Norway	Norwegian	Don Bartlett	My Struggle 1: A Death in the Family Min kamp: Første bok	Harvill Secker
	László Krasznahorkai	Hungary	Hungarian	George Szirtes	Satantango Sátántangó	Tuskar Rock
	Alain Mabanckou	Congo France	French	Sarah Ardizzone	Black Bazaar Black Bazar	Serpent's Tail
	Diego Marani	Italy	Italian	Judith Landry	The Last of the Vostyachs L'ultimo dei Vostiachi	Dedalus Books
	Orhan Pamuk	Turkey	Turkish	Robert Finn	Silent House Sessiz Ev	Faber & Faber
	Juan Gabriel Vásquez	Colombia	Spanish	Anne McLean	The Sound of Things Falling El ruido de las cosas al caer	Bloomsbury

Award	Author	Country	Language	Translator	Title Original title	Notes
Winner	Hassan Blasim	Iraq Finland	Arabic	Jonathan Wright	The Iraqi Christ المسيح العراقي	[23][24][25]
Special mention	Birgit Vanderbeke	Germany	German	Jamie Bulloch	The Mussel Feast Das Muschelessen
Shortlist	Karl Ove Knausgård	Norway	Norwegian	Don Bartlett	My Struggle 2: A Man in Love Min kamp: Andre bok
	Hiromi Kawakami	Japan	Japanese	Allison Markin Powell	Strange Weather in Tokyo センセイの鞄
	Hubert Mingarelli	France	French	Sam Taylor	A Meal in Winter Un repas en hiver
	Yōko Ogawa	Japan	Japanese	Stephen Snyder	Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales 寡黙な死骸みだらな弔い
Longlist	Sinan Antoon	Iraq	Arabic	Sinan Antoon	The Corpse Washer وحدها شجرة الرمان
	Julia Franck	Germany	German	Anthea Bell	Back to Back Rücken an Rücken
	Sayed Kashua	Israel	Hebrew	Mitch Ginsberg	Exposure גוף שני יחיד
	Andrej Longo	Italy	Italian	Howard Curtis	Ten Dieci
	Ma Jian	China United Kingdom	Chinese	Flora Drew	The Dark Road 阴之道
	Andreï Makine	Russia France	French	Geoffrey Strachan	Brief Loves That Live Forever Le livre des brèves amours éternelles
	Javier Marías	Spain	Spanish	Margaret Jull Costa	The Infatuations Los enamoramientos
	Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir	Iceland	Icelandic	Brian FitzGibbon	Butterflies in November Rigning í nóvember
	Jón Kalman Stefánsson	Iceland	Icelandic	Philip Roughton	The Sorrow of Angels Harmur englanna

Award	Author	Country	Language	Translator	Title Original title	Notes
Winner	Jenny Erpenbeck	Germany	German	Susan Bernofsky	The End of Days Aller Tage Abend	[26][27][28]
Shortlist	Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel	Equatorial Guinea	Spanish	Jethro Soutar	By Night the Mountain Burns Arde el monte de noche
	Hiromi Kawakami	Japan	Japanese	Philip Gabriel	Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage 色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年
	Daniel Kehlmann	Germany	German	Carol Brown Janeway	F
	Tomás González	Colombia	Spanish	Frank Wynne	In the Beginning Was the Sea Primero estaba el mar
	Erwin Mortier	Belgium	Dutch	Paul Vincent	While the Gods Were Sleeping Godenslaap
Longlist	Tomas Bannerhed	Sweden	Swedish	Sarah Death	The Ravens Korparna
	Marcello Fois	Italy	Italian	Silvester Mazzarella	Bloodlines Stirpe
	Hamid Ismailov	Uzbekistan United Kingdom	Russian	Andrew Bromfield	The Dead Lake Вундеркинд Ержан
	Karl Ove Knausgård	Norway	Norwegian	Don Bartlett	My Struggle 3: Boyhood Island Min kamp: Tredje bok
	Lee Jung-myung	South Korea	Korean	Chi-Young Kim	The Investigation 별을 스치는 바람
	Judith Schalansky	Germany	German	Shaun Whiteside	The Giraffe's Neck Der Hals der Giraffe
	Stefanie de Velasco	Germany	German	Tim Mohr	Tiger Milk Tigermilch
	Timur Vermes	Germany	German	Jamie Bulloch	Look Who's Back Er ist wieder da
	Can Xue	China	Chinese	Annelise Finegan Wasmoen	The Last Lover 最后的情人

No prize awarded from 1996 through 2000. Merged with the International Booker Prize after the award of the 2015 prize.