Man Booker International Prize
The Man Booker International Prize was established in 2005 as a biannual award, presented to an author for a body of work written in any language as long as it was widely available in English.
In 2016 the Prize evolved to be awarded annually. It is now a translation prize for a single work of fiction that has been translated into English and published in the United Kingdom. With the goal of encouraging greater publishing and reading of quality fiction in translation, the £50,000 prize is divided equally between the author and translator.
Shop the nominees below.
A Horse Walks into a Bar by Joe (NRT) Jessica (TRN); Barrett David; Cohen Grossman
$47.17 NZD
Category: MBIP 2017
Bricks and Mortar by Clemens Meyer
$46.00 NZD
Category: MBIP 2017
BRICKS AND MORTAR is the story of the sex trade in a big city in the former GDR, from just before 1989 to the present day, charting the development of the industry from absolute prohibition to full legality in the twenty years following the reunification of Germany. The focus is on the rise and fall of ...Show more
Compass by Mathias Enard
$55.00 NZD
Category: MBIP 2017
As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life: his ongoing fascination with the Middle East and his numerous travels to ...Show more
Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz
$32.00 NZD
Category: MBIP 2018
In a patch of dilapidated French countryside, a woman struggles with the demons of her multitudinous internal conflicts. Embracing exclusion, yet desiring to belong, craving freedom whilst feeling trapped, yearning for family life and simultaneously wanting to burn the entire facade down.
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
$35.00 NZD
Category: MBIP 2017
A wonderful nightmare of a book: tender and frightening, disturbing but compassionate. Fever Dream is a triumph of Schweblin s outlandish imagination. Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling and Reputations A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy na ...Show more
Fish Have No Feet by Jon Kalman Stefansson
$39.99 NZD
Category: MBIP 2017
Description: Keflavik: a town that may be the darkest place in Iceland, surrounded by black lava fields, hemmed in by a sea that may not be fished, and site of the U.S. military base, whose influence shaped Icelandic culture from the '50s to the dawning of the new millennium. Ari - a writer and publishe ...Show more
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk; Jennifer Croft (Translator)
$49.53 NZD
Category: MBIP 2018
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE A visionary work of fiction with "echoes of Sebald and] Kundera . . . There's] no better travel companion in these turbulent, fanatical times" (The Guardian). A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated ...Show more
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
$14.00 NZD
Category: MBIP 2018
'Extraordinary... A devastating but essential read.' Kevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for The Yellow Birds 'Gripping, darkly humorous...profound.' Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC F ...Show more
Judas by Amos Oz
$55.00 NZD
Category: MBIP 2017
Amos Oz's first major novel in a decade - since A Tale of Love and Darkness, which sold over 100,000 copies. It is selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Times Literary Supplement. Shmuel, a young, idealistic student, is drawn to a mysterious handwritten note on a campus noticeboard. This takes him ...Show more
Like a Fading Shadow by Antonio Muñoz Molina; Camilo A. Ramirez (Translator)
$19.09 NZD
Category: MBIP 2018
Shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2018On April 4th 1968, Martin Luther King was murdered by a man named James Earl Ray. Before Ray's capture and sentencing to 99 years' imprisonment, he evaded the FBI for two months as he crossed the globe under various aliases. At the heart of his stor ...Show more
Mirror Shoulder Signal by Dorthe Nors
$24.99 NZD
Category: MBIP 2017 | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
'Dorthe Nors is fantastic!' Junot Diaz 'Nors' writing is by turns witty, gut wrenching, stark and lyrical.' Los Angeles Times Sonja's over forty, and she's trying to move in the right direction. She's learning to drive. She's joined a meditation group. And she's attempting to reconnect with her sister. ...Show more
Swallowing Mercury by Wioletta Greg
$27.99 NZD
Category: MBIP 2017
Wiola lives in a close-knit agricultural community. Wiola has a black cat called Blackie. Wiola's father was a deserter but now he is a taxidermist. Wiola's mother tells her that killing spiders brings on storms. Wiola must never enter the seamstress's 'secret' room. Wiola collects matchbox labels. Wiol ...Show more