2021 Shortlist At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop translated by Anna Mocschovakis The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez translated by Megan McDowell When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut translated by Adrian Nathan West The Employees by Olga Ravn translated by Martin Aitken In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova translated by Sasha Dugdale The War of the Poor by Eric Vuillard translated by Mark Polizzotti
Longlist The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili translated by Elizabeth Heighway Summer Brother by Jaap Robben translated by David Doherty An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky translated by Jackie Smith Minor Detail by Adania Shibli translated by Elisabeth Jaquette Wretchedness by Andrzej Tichy translated by Nichola Smalley The Perfect Nine: The Epic Gikuyu and Mumbi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o I Live in the Slums by Can Xue translated by Karen Gernant & Chen Zeping
2020 Winner The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld translated by Michele Hutchison
Shortlist The Enlightenment of The Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezon Camara translated by Iona Macintyre & Fiona Mackintosh Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann translated by Ross Benjamin Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor translated by Sophie Hughes The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa translated by Stephen Snyder Longlist Red Dog by Willem Anker translated by Michiel Heyns The Other Name: Septology I – II by Jon Fosse translated by Damion Searls The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili translated by Charlotte Collins & Ruth Martin Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq translated by Shaun Whiteside Faces on the Tip of My Tongue by Emmanuelle Pagano translated by Sophie Lewis & Jennifer Higgins Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin translated by Megan McDowell Mac and His Problem by Enrique Vila-Matas translated by Margaret Jull Costa & Sophie Hughes
2019 Winner Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi translated by Marilyn Booth
Shortlist The Years by Annie Ernaux translated by Alison L Strayer The Pine Islands by Marion Poschmann translated by Jen Calleja Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead by Olga Tokarczuk translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones The Shape Of The Ruins by Juan Gabriel Vasquez translated by Anne McLean The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zeran translated by Sophie Hughes
Longlist Love In The New Millennium by Can Xue translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen At Dusk by Hwang Sok-Yong translated by Sora Kim-Russell Jokes For The Gunmen by Mazen Maarouf translated by Jonathan Wright Four Soldiers by Hubert Mingarelli translated by Sam Taylor Mouthful Of Birds by Samanta Schweblin translated by Megan McDowell The Faculty Of Dreams by Sara Stridsberg translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner The Death Of Murat Idrissi by Tommy Wieringa translated by Sam Garrett
2018 Winner Flights by Olga Tokarczuk Shortlist Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes The White Book by Han Kang The World Goes On by László Krasznahorkai Like a Fading Shadow by Antonio Munoz Molina Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi Longlist The 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet The Impostor by Javier Cercas Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi The Flying Mountain by Christoph Ransmayr The Dinner Guest by Gabriela Ybarra
2017 Winner A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossman Shortlist Compass by Mathias Enard The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors Judas by Amos Oz Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin Longlist Swallowing Mercury by Wioletta Greg War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans The Traitor’s Niche by Ismael Kadare The Explosion Chronicles by Yan Lianke Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou Bricks and Mortar by Clemens Meyer Fish Have No Feet by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
2016 Winner The Vegetarian by Han Kang Shortlist A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa The Four Books by Yan Lianke A Strangeness in my Mind by Orhan Pamuk A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler Longlist Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila A Cup of Rage by Raduan Nassar Ladivine by Marie NDiaye Death by Water by Kenzaburo Oe White Hunger by Aki Ollikainen