Update 21 mei: Banu Mushtaq en haar vertaler Deepa Bhasthi winnen de International Booker Prize 2025

Van de longlist ontbreken onder anderen onze eigen Astrid Roemer en Mircea Cărtărescu (International Dublin Literary Award 2024).

• Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume I, vertaald door Barbara J. Haveland
• Vincent Delecroix, Small Boat, vertaald door Helen Stevenson
• Hiromi Kawakami, Under the Eye of the Big Bird, vertaald door Asa Yoneda
• Vincenzo Latronico, Perfection, vertaald door Sophie Hughes
• Banu Mushtaq, Heart Lamp, vertaald door Deepa Bhasthi
• Anne Serre, A Leopard-Skin Hat, vertaald door Mark Hutchinson

De jury, bij monde van Max Porter:

‘This shortlist is the result of a life-enhancing conversation between myself and my fellow judges. Reading 154 books in six months made us feel like high-speed Question Machines hurtling through space. Our selected six awakened an appetite in us to question the world around us: How am I seeing or being seen? How are we translating each other, all the time? How are we trapped in our bodies, in our circumstances, in time, and what are our options for freedom? Who has a voice? In discussing these books we have been considering again and again what it means to be a human being now.

This list is our celebration of fiction in translation as a vehicle for pressing and surprising conversations about humanity. These mind-expanding books ask what might be in store for us, or how we might mourn, worship or survive. They offer knotty, sometimes pessimistic, sometimes radically hopeful answers to these questions. Taken together they build a miraculous lens through which to view human experience, both the truly disturbing and the achingly beautiful. They are each highly specific windows onto a world, but they are all gorgeously universal.’

20 mei wordt de winnaar bekendgemaakt.

The International Booker Prize is een van de belangrijkste literaire prijzen binnen de Engelse taal. Ieder jaar kiest de jury de beste roman of verhalenbundel die origineel of vertaald in het Engels verschenen is, waarmee de prijs ook het belang van vertaling onderschrijft; de vertaler krijgt de helft van het prijzengeld. Eerder wonnen Jenny Erpenbeck (2024), Georgi Gospodinov (2023), Geetanjali Shree (2022), David Diop (2021), Lucas Rijneveld (2020), Jokha Alharthi (2019), Olga Tokarczuk (2018), David Grossman (2017) en Han Kang (2016). Bekijk alle winnaars in ons literaire-prijzenoverzicht.