2025 International Booker Prize Longlist

• The Book of Disappearance, Ibtisam Azem, trans. by Sinan Antoon (And Other Stories)
• On the Calculation of Volume (Book 1), Solvej Balle, trans. by Barbara J. Haveland (Faber)
• There’s a Monster Behind the Door, Gaëlle Bélem, trans. by Karen Fleetwood & Laëtitia Saint-Loubert (Bullaun)
• Solenoid, Mircea Cărtărescu, trans. by Sean Cotter (Pushkin)
• Under the Eye of the Big Bird, Hiromi Kawakami, trans. by Asa Yoneda (Granta)

The International Booker Prize is given “every year for a single book that is translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.” This year’s judges are Caleb Femi, Sana Goyal, Anton Hur, Beth Orton, and Max Porter.

The shortlist will be announced April 8, 2025. Shortlisted authors receive £5,000, or £2,500 each for writer and translator. The winner will be announced May 20, 2025; the winning work receives £50,000, or £25,000 each for writer and translator.

For more information, including the complete longlist, see the International Booker Prize website.

For previous titles of genre interest listed for the International Booker, see past Locus coverage of the award.

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