International Booker Prize
The International Booker Prize (until 2019 the Man Booker International Prize ) is a British literary prize . Every year since 2016, the award has been given to a foreign-language novel or short story volume translated into English and published in the United Kingdom. The prize is endowed with a total of £ 62,000 , with the author and translator sharing the prize money. The Booker Prize Foundation is responsible for the award, with journalist and editor Fiammetta Rocco ( The Economist ) in charge . The award was sponsored by the Man Group until 2019plc , which also sponsored the Booker Prize for Fiction each year . Since June 2019, the charitable foundation Crankstart of the British businessman Michael Moritz and his wife Harriet Heyman has sponsored the award of the literary prize. Hence, the name Man Booker International Prize was officially changed to The International Booker Prize .
From 2005 to 2015, the award was given every two years to an author of any nationality for his (complete) work available in English, as is the case with the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (the price for the complete work was most recently endowed with 60,000 pounds sterling ). After eight of the ten finalists for a complete work in 2015 had been non-English-speaking authors, it was decided for 2016 to restructure the Man Booker International Prize accordingly and align it with the award criteria of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize , the award of which has thus been discontinued.
The prize is endowed with a total of £ 62,000. A prize of £ 50,000 will be split equally between the winning author and translator. In addition, each shortlisted author and translator will receive £ 1,000 each.
Award winners
Best novel (since 2016)
| year | Award winners | Title (original title) |
German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 |
Han Kang (South Korea), Deborah Smith (translation) |
The Vegetarian (채식주의 자, Chaesikjuuija) |
The vegetarian |
| 2017 |
David Grossman (Israel), Jessica Cohen (translation) |
A Horse Walks Into a Bar (סוס אחד נכנס לְבָּר, Sus Echad Nichnas Le-Bar) |
A horse comes into the bar |
| 2018 |
Olga Tokarczuk (Poland), Jennifer Croft (translation) |
Flights (Bieguni) |
restlessness |
| 2019 |
Jokha al-Harthi (Oman), Marilyn Booth (translation) |
Celestial Bodies (Sayyidat el-Qamar) |
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| 2020 |
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (Netherlands), Michele Hutchison (translation) |
The Discomfort of Evening (De avond is ongemak) |
What to sow |
| 2021 |
David Diop (France / Senegal), Anna Moschovakis (translation) |
At Night All Blood is Black (Frère d'âme) |
At night our blood is black |
Complete works (2005–2015)
| year | Prize winner | country |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Ismail Kadare | Albania |
| 2007 | Chinua Achebe | Nigeria |
| 2009 | Alice Munro | Canada |
| 2011 | Philip Roth | United States |
| 2013 | Lydia Davis | United States |
| 2015 | László Krasznahorkai | Hungary |
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Timeline on the official website
- Regulations 2018 at themanbookerprize.com (English; PDF file)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Regulations 2016 ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at themanbookerprize.com (English, PDF file; accessed on April 21, 2015).
- ↑ Crankstart is the new supporter of the Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize . In: themanbookerprize.com, February 27, 2019 (accessed May 23, 2019).
- ↑ The winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize is ... ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at themanbookerprize.com (accessed April 21, 2016).
- ↑ Evolution of the Man Booker International Prize announced at themanbookerprize.com, July 7, 2015 (accessed April 21, 2016).
- ↑ Key dates of the Man Booker International Prize 2016 at themanbookerprize.com, January 19, 2016 (English; accessed April 20, 2016).
