2026 International Booker Prize Shortlist

“A translated historical novel about travel, appetite, colonial gaze, and Taiwan as both real place and contested imagination.”

“Marie NDiaye’s literary fantasy bends family, power, and estrangement through the uncanny logic of witchcraft.”

“A stark translated novel whose title points downward: mortality, labor, burial, and the underworld beneath ordinary life.”

“Daniel Kehlmann’s novel looks at art, compromise, and power through the figure of a filmmaker navigating history’s machinery.”

“A translated novel of endurance and aftermath, centered on the person left standing after violence, history, or family has taken its share.”