The Best Translated Fiction
This is one of the 759 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.
About this list
The Booker Prize, 17 Books
The Booker Prize asked the authors and translators longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024 to recommend their favourite works of global fiction that have been translated into English
Who voted?
17 people voted and they are listed in the article
This list was originally published in 2024 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3918 | January | Sara Gallardo | 1971 | Argentinian | Spanish | |
| 124 | Pedro Páramo | Juan Rulfo | 1955 | Mexican | Spanish | |
| 804 | The Vegetarian | Han Kang | 2007 | Korean | Korean | |
| 3046 | Fever Dream | Samanta Schweblin | 2014 | Argentinian | Spanish | |
| 1479 | The Wall | Marlen Haushofer | 1963 | Austrian | German | |
| 4681 | A Horse Walks Into A Bar | David Grossman | 2014 | Israeli | Hebrew | |
| 8617 | Carnality | Lina Wolff | 2019 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 8288 | They Will Drown In Their Mother’s Tears | Johannes Anyuru | 2017 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 5507 | Dreams And Stones | Magdalena Tulli | 1995 | Polish | Polish | |
| 2865 | The Story Of The Lost Child | Elena Ferrante | 2014 | Italian | Italian | |
| 5385 | In Memory Of Memory | Maria Stepanova | 2017 | Russian | Russian | |
| 5152 | Cursed Bunny | Bora Chung | 2021 | Korean | Korean | |
| 273 | The Betrothed | Alessandro Manzoni | 1827 | Italian | Italian | |
| 1457 | Deliver Us | Luigi Meneghello | 1963 | Italian | Italian | |
| 4577 | Time Shelter | Georgi Gospodinov | 2020 | Bulgarian | Bulgarian | |
| 1577 | Deep Rivers | José María Arguedas | 1958 | Peruvian | Spanish | |
| 2579 | A Cup Of Rage | Raduan Nassar | 1978 | Brazilian | Portuguese |