2025 International Booker Prize Shortlist Features All Independent Presses

The six shortlisted works, announced today, highlight global diversity, translated from five languages, and explore themes of survival and resilience.

• The 2025 International Booker Prize shortlist includes six titles, all published by independent presses, a first in the prize's history.
• The selected works represent a wide range of global voices, with translations from Italian, Japanese, Danish, French, and Kannada—the latter appearing on the shortlist for the first time.
• Authors and translators from countries including Japan, Denmark, France, Italy, and India are competing for the £50,000 prize, to be shared equally between author and translator.
• Themes of survival and the resilience of the human spirit are central to the shortlisted works, which tackle contemporary challenges, including migration and cultural identity.
• The winner will be announced on May 20, 2025, at a ceremony held at London's Tate Modern, coinciding with the gallery's 25th anniversary.

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