📚International Booker Prize winners, the last ten years

every winner since it went annual in 2016, straight off the record. current through the 2026 winner, announced in May.

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Taiwan Travelogue - Yang Shuang-zi (tr. Lin King), 2026

still haven't found a copy here. first book by a Taiwanese author to win

Heart Lamp: Selected Stories - Banu Mushtaq (tr. Deepa Bhasthi), 2025

first short story collection to win the prize, and first from Kannada. this one earned it

Kairos - Jenny Erpenbeck (tr. Michael Hofmann), 2024

Time Shelter - Georgi Gospodinov (tr. Angela Rodel), 2023

Tomb of Sand - Geetanjali Shree (tr. Daisy Rockwell), 2022

Rockwell's translator's note is worth reading on its own, and it's the first Hindi novel to win

At Night All Blood Is Black - David Diop (tr. Anna Moschovakis), 2021

The Discomfort of Evening - Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (tr. Michele Hutchison), 2020

brutal little book, do not read at breakfast

Celestial Bodies - Jokha Alharthi (tr. Marilyn Booth), 2019

Flights - Olga Tokarczuk (tr. Jennifer Croft), 2018

the shortlist was better that year honestly, but this one's grown on me

A Horse Walks into a Bar - David Grossman (tr. Jessica Cohen), 2017

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