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.
The Dinner Guest by Gabriela Ybarra; Natasha Wimmer (Translator)
$35.00 NZD
Category: MBIP 2018 | Series: trans Natasha Wimmer
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE The Dinner Guest is Gabriela Ybarra's prizewinning literary debut: a singular autobiographical novel piecing together the kidnap and murder of her grandfather by terrorists, reflecting on the personal impact of private pain and public tragedy.The s ...Show more
The Explosion Chronicles by Lianke Yan
$30.00 NZD
Category: MBIP 2017
Man Booker International finalist Yan Lianke has been lauded for his imaginative satire and insightful cultural critique as "one of China's greatest living authors" (Guardian). His internationally bestselling new novel,The Explosion Chronicles, follows the excessive expansion of a rural community from s ...Show more
The Flying Mountain by Christoph Ransmayr; Simon Pare (Translator)
$54.00 NZD
Category: MBIP 2018 | Series: The\German List Ser.
In a publishing world that is all too full of realist novels written in undistinguished prose, discernible only by their covers, The Flying Mountain stands out--if for no other reason than that it consists entirely of blank verse. And that form is most suitable for the epic voyage Christoph Ransmayr rel ...Show more
The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi; Darryl Sterk (Translator)
$37.00 NZD
Category: MBIP 2018
Longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. A writer embarks on an epic quest in search of his missing father's stolen bicycle and soon finds himself ensnared in the strangely intertwined stories of Lin Wang, the oldest elephant who ever lived, the soldiers who fought in the jungles of South ...Show more
The Traitor's Niche by Ismail Kadare
$48.00 NZD
Category: MBIP 2017
At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the main square of Constantinople, a niche is carved into ancient stone. Here, the sultan displays the severed heads of his adversaries. People flock to see the latest head and gossip about the state of the empire: the province of Albania is demanding independence ...Show more
The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen
$39.99 NZD
Category: MBIP 2017
Barr y Island off the North-western coast of Norway - a holdfast for a single family, their livestock, their crops, their hopes and dreams. And their fears. There is a taint passed down the Barr y line, and Hans and Maria Barr y fear their daughter Ingrid may be affected. The early years of the twentiet ...Show more
The White Book by Han Kang; Deborah Smith (Translator)
$22.99 NZD
Category: MBIP 2018
Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary phenomenon Han Kang, a lyrical and disquieting exploration of personal grief, written through the prism of the color white While on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin white worlds of t ...Show more
The World Goes on by László Krasznahorkai; Géorge Szirtes; Ottilie Mulzet; John Batki
$10.12 NZD
Category: MBIP 2018
Shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2018A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveller, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ...Show more
Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes; Frank Wynne (Translator)
$37.99 NZD
Category: MBIP 2018 | Series: MacLehose Press Editions Ser.
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018** WHO IS VERNON SUBUTEX?An urban legend.A fall from grace.The mirror who reflects us all. Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Bastille. His legend spread throughout Paris. But by the 2000s his shop is struggl ...Show more
War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans
$25.00 NZD
Category: MBIP 2017
Shortly before his death in 1981, Stefan Hertmans’ grandfather gave him a couple of filled exercise books. Stories he’d heard as a child had led Hertmans to suspect that their contents might be disturbing, and for years he didn’t dare to open them. When he finally did, he discovered unexpected secrets. ...Show more