# International Literature Award

International Literature Award (German: Internationaler Literaturpreis – Haus der Kulturen der Welt) is a German literary award for international prose translated into German for the first time. The prize has been awarded annually by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the foundation “Elementarteilchen” since 2009. Winning authors receive €20,000 and the translators €15,000. The award has compared as the German near-equivalent of the Best Translated Book Award or Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. In 2020, due to COVID-19 pandemic, the award was given to all six shortlisted titles, with the prize money divided equally.

## Winners and shortlists

Blue Ribbon = winner

### 2009

* Daniel Alarcón, Lost City Radio (English, trans. Friederike Meltendorf)
* Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, زوال کلنل (Farsi, trans. Bahman Nirumand)
* Rawi Hage, De Niro's Game (English, trans. Gregor Hens)
* Aleksandar Hemon, Lazarus (English, trans. Rudolf Hermstein)
* Martín Kohan, Dos veces junio (Spanish, trans. Peter Kultzen)
* Dinaw Mengestu, The beautiful Things that Heaven bears (English, trans. Volker Oldenburg)

### 2010

* Édouard Glissant, La terre magnétique: les errances de Rapa Nui, l'île de Pâques (French, trans. Beate Thill)
* Yasmina Khadra, Ce que le jour doit à la nuit (French, trans. Regina Keil-Sagawe)
* Yiyun Li, The Vagrants (English, trans. Anette Grube)
* Shahriar Mandanipour, Censoring an Iranian Love Story (English, trans. Ursula Ballin)
* Dinaw Mengestu, How to read the Air (English, trans. Volker Oldenburg)
* Daniyal Mueenuddin, In other Rooms, other Wonders (English, trans. Brigitte Heinrich)
* Marie NDiaye, Trois femmes puissantes (French, trans. Claudia Kalscheuer)

### 2011

* José Eduardo Agualusa, Barroco tropical (Portuguese, trans. Michael Kegler)
* Joanna Bator, Piaskowa góra (Polish, trans. Esther Kinsky)
* Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker (English, trans. Susann Urban)
* Mathias Énard, Zone (French, trans. Holger Fock and Sabine Müller)
* Elias Khoury, يالو (Arabic, trans. Leila Chamman)
* Mikhail Shishkin, Венерин Волос (Russian, trans. Andreas Tretner)

### 2012

* Jaume Cabré, Jo confesso (Catalan, trans. Kirsten Brandt and Petra Zickmann)
* Mircea Cărtărescu, Corpul (Romanian, trans. Gerhardt Csejka and Ferdinand Leopold)
* Nedim Gürsel, Allah’ιn Kιzlarι (Turkish, trans. Barbara Yurtdas)
* Tom McCarthy, C (English, trans. Bernhard Robben)
* Péter Nádas, Párhuzamos történetek (Hungarian, trans. Christina Viragh)
* Téa Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife (English, trans. Bettina Abarbanell)

### 2013

* Andrei Bitov, Преподаватель симметрии (Russian, trans. Rosemarie Tietze)
* Teju Cole, Open City (English, trans. Christine Richter-Nilsson)
* Lloyd Jones, Hand me down World (English, trans. Grete Osterwald)
* Valeria Luiselli, Los Ingrávidos (Spanish, trans. Dagmar Ploetz-Timm)
* Zakhar Prilepin, Санькя (Russian, trans. Erich Klein and Susanne Macht)
* Jean Rolin, Un chien mort après lui (French, trans. Holger Fock and Sabine Müller)

### 2014

* Zsófia Bán, Amikor még csak az állatok éltek (Hungarian, trans. Terézia Mora)
* Georgi Gospodinov, Физика на тъгата (Bulgarian, trans. Alexander Sitzmann)
* Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (English, trans. Eike Schönfeld)
* Bernardo Kucinski, K. (Portuguese, trans. Sarita Brandt)
* Dany Laferrière, L'énigme du retour (French, trans. Beate Thill)
* Madeleine Thien, Dogs at the Perimeter (English, trans. Almuth Carstens)

### 2015

* NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names (English, trans. Miriam Mandelkow)
* Patrick Chamoiseau, L'empreinte à Crusoé (French, trans. Beate Thill)
* Daša Drndić, Sonnenschein (Croatian, trans. Brigitte Döbert and Blanka Stipetić)
* Gilbert Gatore, Le passé devant soi (French, trans. Katja Meintel)
* Amos Oz, הבשורה על-פי יהודה (Hebrew, trans. Mirjam Pressler)
* Krisztina Tóth, Akvárium (Hungarian, trans. György Buda)

### 2016

* Johannes Anyuru, En storm kom från paradiset (Swedish, trans. Paul Berf)
* Joanna Bator, Ciemno, prawie noc (Polish, trans. Lisa Palmes)
* Alexander Ilitschewski, Перс (Russian, trans. Andreas Tretner)
* Valeria Luiselli, La historia de mis dientes (Spanish, trans. Dagmar Ploetz)
* Shumona Sinha, Assommons les pauvres! (French, trans. Lena Müller)
* Ivan Vladislavić, Double Negative (English, trans. Thomas Brückner)

### 2017

* Hamed Abboud, يصنع كعكة عيد (Arabic, trans. Larissa Bender)
* Alberto Barrera Tyszka, Patria o muerte (Spanish, trans. Matthias Strobel)
* Han Kang, 채식주의자 (Korean, trans. Ki-Hyang Lee)
* Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic (English, trans. Zoë Beck)
* Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Tram 83 (French, trans. Katharina Meyer and Lena Müller)
* Ziemowit Szczerek, Przyjdzie Mordor i nas zje, czyli Tajna historia Słowian (Polish, trans. Thomas Weiler)

### 2018

* Anuk Arudpragasam, The Story of a Brief Mariage (English, trans. Hannes Meyer)
* Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex (French, trans. Claudia Steinitz)
* Maxim Ossipow, Nach der Ewigkeit (trans. Birgit Veit)
* Ivana Sajko, Ljubavni roman (Croatian, trans. Alida Bremer)
* Éric Vuillard, L'ordre du jour (French, trans. Nicola Denis)
* Eliot Weinberger, The Ghosts of Birds (English, trans. Beatrice Faßbender)

### 2019

* Hélène Cixous, Homère est morte (French, trans. Claudia Simma)
* Zoltán Danyi, A dögeltakarító (Hungarian, trans. Terézia Mora)
* Ariana Harwicz, Mátate, amor (Spanish, trans. Dagmar Ploetz)
* Fernanda Melchor, Temporada de huracanes (Spanish, trans. Angelica Ammar)
* Gerald Murnane, Border Districts (English, trans. Rainer G. Schmidt)
* Yishai Sarid, מפלצת הזיכרון (Hebrew, trans. Ruth Achlama)

### 2020

All six shortlisted titles were given the award.
* Yevgenia Belorusets, Щасливі падіння (Ukrainian/Russian, trans. Claudia Dathe)
* Amir Hassan Cheheltan, محفل عاشقان ادب (Farsi, trans. Jutta Himmelreich)
* Angel Igov, Кротките (Bulgarian, trans. Andreas Tretner)
* James Noël, Belle Merveille (French, trans. Rike Bolte)
* Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities (English, trans. Nicolai von Schweder-Schreiner)
* Isabel Waidner, Gaudy Bauble (English, trans. Ann Cotten)

### 2021

* Fatima Daas, La petite dernière (French, trans. Sina de Malafosse)
* Jonas Eika, Efter solen (Danish, trans. Ursel Allenstein)
* Fang Fang, 软埋 (Mandarin, trans. Michael Kahn-Ackermann)
* Ava Farmehri, Through the sad Wood our Corpses will hang (English, trans. Sonja Finck)
* Nastassja Martin, Croire aux fauves (French, trans. Claudia Kalscheuer)
* Jenny Offill, Weather (English, trans. Melanie Walz)

### 2022

* Can Xue, 新世纪爱情故事 (Mandarin, trans. Karin Betz)
* Aleksandar Hemon, My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You (English, trans. Henning Ahrens)
* Juhani Karila, Pienen hauen pyydystys (Finnish, trans. Maximilian Murmann)
* Cristina Morales, Lectura fácil (Spanish, trans. Friederike von Criegern)
* Adania Shibli, تفصيل ثانوي (Arabic, trans. Günther Orth)
* Andrea Tompa, Omertà. Hallgatások könyve (Hungarian, trans. Terézia Mora)

### 2023

* Don Mee Choi, DMZ Colony (English, trans. Uljana Wolf)
* Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Conjunto vacío (Spanish, trans. Birgit Weilguny)
* Cherie Jones, How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House (English, trans. Karen Gerwig)
* Péter Nádas, Rémtörténetek (Hungarian, trans. Heinrich Eisterer)
* Mariette Navarro, Ultramarins (French, trans. Sophie Beese)
* Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (French, trans. Holger Fock and Sabine Müller)
* Maria Stepanova, Девушки без одежды (Russian, trans. Olga Radetzkaja)
* Eva Viežnaviec, Па што ідзеш, воўча? (Belarusian, trans. Tina Wünschmann)
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### 2024

* Percival Everett, James (English, trans. Nikolaus Stingl)
* Victoria Kielland, Mine Menn (Norwegian, trans. Elke Ranzinger)
* Scholastique Mukasonga, Kibogo est monté au ciel (French, trans. Jan Schönherr)
* Adèle Rosenfeld, Les méduses n'ont pas d'oreilles (French, trans. Nicola Denis)
* Pajtim Statovci, Kissani Jugoslavia (Finnish, trans. Stefan Moster)
* Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Volver la vista atrás (Spanish, trans Susanne Lange)