Facts about International Booker Prize
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Awarded annually, the International Booker Prize recognizes fiction translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.
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Fifty thousand pounds sterling is split equally between the author and translator when a translated work wins the International Booker Prize.
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Yoko Ogawa became the first Japanese author to win the International Booker Prize in 2024 for The Memory Police, translated by Stephen Snyder.
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Translated works won the International Booker Prize in three of its first four years, with Han Kang's The Vegetarian (2016 English translation) winning in 2024 for the Korean original.
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Margaret Atwood won the inaugural International Booker Prize in 2019 for The Testaments, receiving £50,000 in prize money.
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The International Booker Prize expanded its eligibility in 2016 to include translations published anywhere globally, previously limiting entries to UK and Commonwealth publishers.