Overview
- The longlist draws from a record-wide submission pool this cycle and features authors and translators representing 14 nationalities across four continents.
- A five-member jury chaired by author Natasha Brown includes Marcus du Sautoy, Sophie Hughes, Troy Onyango and Nilanjana S. Roy.
- The winner will be announced on May 19 at London’s Tate Modern, with £50,000 split between author and translator and £5,000 awarded to each shortlisted title.
- Marking the prize’s 10th year in its current form, the Booker Foundation noted submissions from 34 original languages and said sales of translated fiction have doubled since 2016.
- Two longlisted books were first published decades ago and newly translated for anglophone readers, including a title long banned in Iran.