The International Booker Prize 2025 recently announced its longlist. The longlist of 13 books – 11 novels and two collections of short stories – was chosen by the 2025 judging panel, chaired by Booker Prize-longlisted author Max Porter. The other judges are: poet, director and photographer Caleb Femi; writer and publishing director of Wasafiri Sana Goyal; author and International Booker Prize-shortlisted translator Anton Hur; and singer-songwriter Beth Orton.
The list celebrates the best works of long-form fiction or collections of short stories translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland between 1 May 2024 and 30 April 2025, as judged by the 2025 panel. The judges made their selection from 154 books submitted by publishers – the highest number since the prize was launched in its current format in 2016.
The prize recognizes the vital work of translators with the £50,000 prize money divided equally: £25,000 for the author and £25,000 for the translator (or divided equally between multiple translators). In addition, there is a prize of £5,000 for each of the shortlisted titles: £2,500 for the author and £2,500 for the translator (or divided equally between multiple translators). The International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist of six books will be announced on Tuesday, 8 April. The winner will be announced at a ceremony at London’s Tate Modern on Tuesday, 20 May.
The longlist:
A Leopard-Skin Hat by Anne Serre, translated from French by Mark Hutchinson
On a Woman’s Madness by Astrid Roemer, translated from Dutch by Lucy Scott
Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, translated from Italian by Sophie Hughes
Eurotrash by Christian Kracht, translated from German by Daniel Bowles
Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami, translated from Japanese by Asa Yoneda
Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa, translated from Japanese by Polly Barton
Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix, translated from French by Helen Stevenson
Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda, translated from Spanish by Heather Cleary and Julia Sanches
Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated from Romanian by Sean Cotter
There’s a Monster Behind the Door by Gaëlle Bélem, translated from French by Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia Saint-Loubert
On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle, translated from Danish by Barbara J Haveland
The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem, translated from Arabic by Sinan Antoon
