2026 International Booker Prize Shortlist

Daniel Kehlmann · 2023

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

Rene Karabash · 2025

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

Shida Bazyar · 2025

A Tehran-rooted family and exile novel where political history is felt through private rooms, memory, and generational silence.