The International Booker Prize Tenth Anniversary

Join us to celebrate a decade of the International Booker Prize, which has become the world’s most influential prize for translated fiction.
 
In 2026, the Booker Prize Foundation marks the tenth anniversary of the prize in its current form.
 
The first winner in 2016 was The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated from Korean by Deborah Smith.
Since then it has promoted ten winners in ten original languages from Arabic to Polish, Bulgarian to Kannada.
 
Four authors recognised by the International Booker Prize have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, including Kang, Jon Fosse, Annie Ernaux and Olga Tokarczuk.
 
The prize has also helped to drive a boom in translated fiction in the UK: sales have doubled since it launched.
This event features special guests, to be announced in due course.