The International Booker Prize Tenth Anniversary
A special evening celebrating ten years of the International Booker Prize with special guests and readings from across the prize's history.
Why we picked this
Ten winners in ten languages, from Arabic to Kannada — this anniversary celebration is a reminder of how much extraordinary fiction exists beyond the English-language bubble.
The Booker Prize Foundation marks a decade of the International Booker Prize in its current form with a celebration at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. The prize has honored ten winners writing in ten original languages — from Arabic to Polish, Bulgarian to Kannada — and this evening brings together special guests to reflect on what the prize has revealed about the state of world fiction.
The International Booker Prize has done more than almost any other institution to bring translated literature to English-language readers, championing writers and translators whose work might otherwise never cross linguistic borders. This anniversary is a chance to take stock of that achievement.
Special guests are still to be announced, but the evening promises readings, conversation, and a look back at a decade of literary discovery.