Overview
- The International Booker Prize named six finalists and left out Anjet Daanje’s The Remembered Soldier after its longlist recognition.
- The shortlist consists of Taiwan Travelogue, The Witch, On Earth As It Is Beneath, The Director, She Who Remains, and The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran.
- The winner will be announced on May 19, with £50,000 awarded and shared between the author and the translator.
- Daanje’s 2019 book centers on a World War I soldier with no memory who is identified by a woman who says he is her husband.
- The New York Times listed the novel among its 100 best books of 2025, and Daanje has previously won the Boekenbon Literatuurprijs and the Libris Literatuur Prijs for another work.