Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

Given by The Independent

193 Works 152,042 Books 5,330 Reviews ½ 3.8
The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize was inaugurated by British newspaper The Independent to honour fiction in translation in the United Kingdom. The award was first launched in 1990 and ran for show more five years before falling into abeyance. It was revived in 2001 with the support of Arts Council England. Entries (fiction or short stories) must be published in English translation in the UK in the year preceding the award and the author must be alive at the time that the translation is published.

Uniquely, the prize acknowledges both the winning novelist and translator, each being awarded £5,000.
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Stages:
All, Winner (20), Shortlist (86), Longlist (87)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2015 (15), 2014 (13), 2013 (16), 2012 (13), 2011 (17), 2010 (15), 2009 (16), 2008 (17), 2007 (11), 2006 (14), 2005 (6), 2004 (6), 2003 (6), 2002 (6), 2001 (5), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (12), 1991 (1), 1990 (1)

Winner 20

Shortlist 86

WorkCategoryYear
In the Beginning Was the Sea by Tomás González2015
F by Daniel Kehlmann2015
By Night the Mountain Burns by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel2015
While the Gods Were Sleeping by Erwin Mortier2015
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami2015
Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami2014
My Struggle: Book 2: A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgård2014
A Meal in Winter by Hubert Mingarelli2014
Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales by Yoko Ogawa2014
The Mussel Feast by Birgit Vanderbeke2014
Bundu by Chris Barnard2013
Trieste by Daša Drndić2013
The Fall of the Stone City by Ismaîl Kadaré2013
Traveller of the Century by Andrés Neuman2013
Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas2013
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco2012
Alice by Judith Hermann2012
Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke2012
New Finnish grammar by Diego Marani2012
From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjón2012
The Sickness by K. A. Applegate2011
Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck2011
Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras2011
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk2011
I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson2011
The Blindness of the Heart by Julia Franck2010
Fists by Pietro Grossi2010
Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou2010
Chowringhee by Sankar2010
The Dark Side of Love by Rafik Schami2010
Voix sans issue by Celine Curiol2009
Beijing Coma by Ma Jian2009
The Siege by Ismaîl Kadaré2009
The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vásquez2009
Friendly Fire: A Duet by A. B. Yehoshua2009
The Model by Lars Saabye Christensen2008
Castorp by Paweł Huelle2008
Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann2008
Gregorius by Bengt Ohlsson2008
The Way of the Women by Marlene Van Niekerk2008
The Book About Blanche and Marie by Per Olov Enquist2007
Four Walls by Vangelis Hatziyannidis2007
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 2: Dance and Dream by Javier Marías2007
Vienna by Eva Menasse2007
Shyness and Dignity by Dag Solstad2007
Mercedes-Benz by Paweł Huelle2006
This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun2006
Fatelessness by Imre Kertész2006
The Door by Magda Szabó2006
The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugrešić2006
Budapest by Chico Buarque2005
Give Me: (Songs for Lovers) by Irina Deneschkina2005
Village of Stone by Xiaolu Guo2005
Snow by Orhan Pamuk2005
The Flea Palace by Elif Shafak2005
Welcome to Paradise by Mahi Binebine2004
Q by Wu Ming2004
Lizard Tails by Juan Marsé2004
Money to Burn by Ricardo Piglia2004
Mrs. Sartoris by Elke Schmitter2004
13,99 euros by Frédéric Beigbeder2003
The Snowflake Constant by Peter Stephan Jungk2003
The Cave by José Saramago2003
The Athenian Murders by José Carlos Somoza2003
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa2003
Only in London by Hanan Al-Shaykh2002
On the Water by H. M. van den Brink2002
Five Photos of My Wife by Agnès Desarthe2002
Death and the Penguin by Andrij Kurkow2002
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel by Dai Sijie2002
The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro by Antonio TabucchiAntonio Tabucchi2001
Lost by Hans-Ulrich TreichelCarol Brown Janeaway2001
The Elementary Particles by Michel HouellebecqFrank Wynne2001
The Officers' Ward by Marc DugainHoward Curtis2001
Dunyazad (Middle Eastern Fiction) by May TelmissanyRoger Allen2001
Holograms of Fear by Slavenka Drakulic1992
Who Was David Weiser? by Paweł Huelle1992
To Crush the Serpent by Yaşar Kemal1992
Judge On Trial by Ivan Klima1992
The Silent Duchess by Dacia Mariani1992
A cercar la bella morte by Carlo Mazzantini1992
Love and Empire by Erik Orsenna1992
The Law of White Spaces by Giorgio Pressburger1992
Fields of Glory by Jean Rouaud1992
Il cavaliere e la morte by Leonardo Sciascia1992
The Edge of the Horizon by Antonio Tabucchi1992

Longlist 87

WorkYear
Korparna : roman by Tomas Bannerhed2015
Stirpe by Marcello Fois2015
The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov2015
My Struggle: Book 3 by Karl Ove Knausgård2015
The Investigation by J. M. Lee2015
The Giraffe's Neck by Judith Schalansky2015
Tiger Milk by Stefanie de Velasco2015
Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes2015
The Last Lover by Can Xue2015
The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon2014
Back to Back by Julia Franck2014
The Dark Road: A Novel by Ma Jian2014
Butterflies in November by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir2014
Ten by Andrej Longo2014
Brief Loves that Live Forever by Andreï Makine2014
The Sorrow of Angels by Jón Kalman Stefánsson2014
HHhH by Laurent Binet2013
Cold Sea Stories by Paweł Huelle2013
The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul2013
In Praise of Hatred by Khālid Khalīfah2013
My Struggle: Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgård2013
Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai2013
Black Bazar by Alain Mabanckou2013
The Last of the Vostyachs by Diego Marani2013
Silent House by Orhan Pamuk2013
The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez2013
Seven Houses in France by Bernardo Atxaga2012
1Q84: Books 1 and 2 by Haruki Murakami2012
Parallel Stories by Péter Nádas2012
Next World Novella by Matthias Politycki2012
The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg2012
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-sook Shin2012
Professor Andersen's Night by Dag Solstad2012
The Sickness by Alberto Barrera Tyszka2011
Hate: A Romance: A Novel by Tristan Garcia2011
To the End of the Land by David Grossman2011
Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes by Daniel Kehlmann2011
Beside the Sea by Veronique Olmi2011
Gargling with tar by Jáchym Topol2011
The Secret History of Costaguana by Juan Gabriel Vásquez2011
The Journey of Anders Sparrman by Per Wastberg2011
Lubiewo by Michal Witkowski2011
Villain by Shūichi Yoshida2011
Dark Matter by Juli Zeh2011
The Coronation by Boris Akunin2010
To Music by Ketil Bjørnstad2010
The Madman of Freedom Square by Hassan Blasim2010
Yalo by Elias Khoury2010
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell2010
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell by Javier Marías2010
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa2010
Thursday Night Widows by Claudia Piñeiro2010
Sunset Oasis by Bahaa Taher2010
My Father's Wives by Jose Eduardo Agualusa2009
The Director by Alexander Ahndoril2009
The White King by Gyorgy Dragoman2009
Night Work by Thomas Glavinic2009
Homesick by Eshkol Nevo2009
The Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Yoko Ogawa2009
The Blue Fox by Sjón2009
Romanzo 11, libro 18 by Dag Solstad2009
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić2009
A Blessed Child by Linn Ullmann2009
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa al-Aswani2008
The Book of Words by Jenny Erpenbeck2008
The Moon Opera by Bi Feiyu2008
Agamemnon's Daughter: A Novella and Stories by Ismaîl Kadaré2008
Let It Be Morning by Sayed Kashua2008
Sluitertijd by Erwin Mortier2008
El pasado by Alan Pauls2008
Rivers of Babylon by Peter Pišťanek2008
Delirium by Laura Restrepo2008
Bahia Blues by Yasmina Traboulsi2008
Montano's Malady by Enrique Vila-Matas2008
My Father's Notebook by Kader Abdolah2007
I'll Steal You Away by Niccolo Ammaniti2007
The Moldavian Pimp by Edgardo Cozarinsky2007
The Old Child by Jenny Erpenbeck2007
Nåde by Linn Ullmann2007
Someone Else by Tonino Benacquista2006
Death in Danzig by Stefan Chwin2006
This Is Not a Love Song by Karen Duve2006
Her Body Knows: Two Novellas by David Grossman2006
Nothing But Ghosts by Judith Hermann2006
Snow by Ellen Mattson2006
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami2006
Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie2006

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The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize was inaugurated by British newspaper The Independent to honour fiction in translation in the United Kingdom. The award was first launched in 1990 and ran for five years before falling into abeyance. It was revived in 2001 with the support of Arts Council England. Entries (fiction or short stories) must be published in English translation in the UK in the year preceding the award and the author must be alive at the time that the translation is published.

Uniquely, the prize acknowledges both the winning novelist and translator, each being awarded £5,000.

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discontinued in 2015 (Russian, Member-written)

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