Knowra International Booker Prize International Booker Prize The International Booker Prize is an annual literary award recognizing fiction translated into English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. The prize is shared by the winning author and translator.
International Booker Prize shortlist : The group of books selected as finalists for the International Booker Prize in a given year. Judges narrow eligible titles to a shortlist before choosing the annual winner.
Man Booker International Prize : The predecessor award that became the International Booker Prize in 2016. Its earlier format honored authors' bodies of work before the prize adopted its current annual focus.
Olga Tokarczuk : A Polish novelist whose translated novel Flights won the 2018 International Booker Prize. Her win brought a complex, fragmentary novel to a broad English-language audience.
The Vegetarian : Han Kang's novel about a Korean woman whose refusal to eat meat unsettles her family and social world. Its 2016 win was the first under the prize's current annual translated-book format.
Translation rights : The legal rights governing the translation and publication of a work in another language. Prize attention can increase demand for English-language rights to nominated books.
International Booker Prize jury : The panel of writers, translators, critics, and other cultural figures that selects the prize's longlist, shortlist, and winner. Jurors assess the eligible translations and decide each year's selections.
Booker Prize : A British literary award for a novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. The International Booker developed alongside this established award for English-language fiction.
Jennifer Croft : An American literary translator who translated Olga Tokarczuk's Flights into English. She shared the 2018 prize with Tokarczuk, illustrating the award's author-translator partnership.
Flights : Olga Tokarczuk's novel connecting travel, bodily movement, and short, interwoven narratives. Its 2018 win brought an unconventional novel structure to the award's foreground.
Independent publisher : A publishing company not owned by a major corporate publishing group. Smaller presses often bring prize-nominated translated works into English-language markets.
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