It was an exceptionally good year, too, for prizes, with Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq (tr. Deepa Bhasthi) winning the International Booker Prize (our first!), Lublin by Manya Wilkinson winning the Hawthornden, Wingate and RSL’s Encore Prizes and Verdigris by Michele Mari (tr. Brian Robert Moore) winning the 2025 PEN America Translation Prize and the ALTA Italian Prose in Translation Prize in the United States. Here’s a rundown of prize wins and listings from 2025…
Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq (tr. Deepa Bhashti)
Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize
Lublin by Manya Wilkinson
Winner of the Hawthornden Prize 2025
Winner of the 2025 Wingate Prize
Finalist for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize (USA & Canada)
Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Encore Prize
Verdigris by Michele Mari (tr. Brian Robert Moore)
Winner of the 2025 PEN America Translation Prize
Winner of the 2025 ALTA Italian Prose in Translation Prize
Ghost Pains by Jessi Jezewska Stevens
Winner of the 2025 Story Prize
This Part is Silent by SJ Kim
Longlisted for the 2026 Gordon Burn Prize
Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
Longlisted for the 2026 Gordon Burn Prize
Tracker by Alexis Wright
Longlisted for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction
The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem (tr. Sinan Antoon)
Longlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize
Season of the Swamp by Yuri Herrera
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
Winner of the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize
Fire Exit by Morgan Talty
Finalist for the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Finalist
Longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award
Longlisted for the 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize
Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi
Shortlisted for the 2025 PEN Heaney Prize
Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon (tr. Don Mee Choi)
Longlisted for the 2025 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon (tr. Don Mee Choi)
Winner of the 2025 International Literature Award presented by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)
Purity by Andrzej Tichy (tr. Nichola Smalley)
Longlisted for the 2025 Bernard Shaw Prize
Star 111 by Lutz Seiler (tr. Tess Lewis)
Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award
ATA Ungar German Translation Award