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About International Booker Prize
• The International Booker Prize celebrates the finest fiction from around the globe that has 
been translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland. This prize recognizes the 
author and translator equally, awarding them both for their contribution to bringing global 
literature to English-speaking audiences. The 2025 shortlist of six books was announced on 
Tuesday, 8 April, with the winner to be announced at a ceremony at London’s Tate Modern on 
Tuesday, 20 May.
• The International Booker Prize began life in 2005 as the Man Booker International Prize. It was 
initially a biennial prize for a body of work, and there was no stipulation that the work should 
be written in a language other than English. 
• In 2015, after the rules of the original Booker Prize expanded to allow writers of any nationality 
to enter – as long as their books were written in English and published in the UK – the 
International Prize evolved to become the mirror image of the English-language prize. Since 
then, it has been awarded annually for a single book written in another language and 
translated into English.
• This year, 6 books are shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025, which 
are as follows:
 Heart Lamp
  On the Calculation of Volume I
 A Leopard-Skin Hat
 Perfection
 Small Boat 
 Under the Eye of the Big Bird
Heart Lamp: It is a collection of 12 short stories that offer readers a poignant and nuanced 
perspective on the experiences of marginalized women in southern India. Written by  Banu 
Mushtaq, Heart Lamp exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim 
communities in southern India and shows their family and community tensions and testifies to 
Mushtaq’s years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights 
and protested all forms of caste and religious oppression. Her opus has garnered both censure 
from conservative quarters as well India’s most prestigious literary awards; this is a collection sure 
to be read for years to come.Heart Lamp reflects on universal themes of identity, community, and 
resilience and makes it one  of the International Booker Prize shortlist 2025 .
 On the Calculation of Volume I: Winner of the 2022 Nordic Council Literature Prize, "On the 
Calculation of Volume I" is the first volume of the page-turning poetic masterpiece by Danish 
author Solvej Balle. It is the story of a woman who falls through the cracks of time. The story 
follows Tara Selter, who has slipped out of time. Every morning when she wakes up on the 
18th of November. She no longer expects to wake up on the 19th of November, and she no 
longer remembers the 17th of November as if it were yesterday. Each day resets at midnight, 
with Tara aging and experiencing physical changes while those around her remain unaware 
of the repetition.
A Leopard-Skin Hat: Written by Anne Serre, A Leopard-Skin Hat is a poignant novel that follows the 
story of an intense friendship between the Narrator and his close childhood friend, Fanny, who suffers 
from profound psychological disorders.A series of short scenes paints the portrait of a strong-willed 
and tormented young woman battling many demons and of the narrator's loving and anguished 
attachment to her. Serre poignantly depicts the bewildering back and forth between hope and despair 
involved in such a relationship while playfully calling into question the very form of the novel. Written 
in the aftermath of the death of the author's little sister, it is a profound exploration of human 
connection and loss and offers readers a moving and introspective experience. This is the type of novel 
that can be the prominent winner of the International Booker Prize in 2025.
 Perfection: It is a novel by Italian author Vincenzo Latronico, first published in Italian in 2022 under the 
title Le perfezioni. The English translation, rendered by Sophie Hughes, was released in 2025. The story 
follows Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom, who are living the dream in Berlin in a bright, 
affordable, plant-filled apartment. Their life as young digital creatives revolves around slow cooking, 
Danish furniture, sexual experimentation, and the city’s twenty-four-hour party scene. But beyond the 
images, dissatisfaction and ennui burgeon. Work becomes repetitive. Friends move back home, have 
children, and grow up. Feeling increasingly trapped in their picture-perfect life, the couple takes ever 
more radical steps in the pursuit of an authenticity and a sense of purpose perennially beyond their 
grasp. Perfection explores the premise of things being too perfect and boring and offers a thought-
provoking and engaging read.
Small Boat: Written by Vincent Delecroix, Small Boat is a work of fiction inspired by a real-life incident that 
happened in the English Channel involving migrants. In November 2021, an inflatable dinghy carrying 
migrants from France to the United Kingdom capsized in the Channel, causing the death of 27 people on 
board. Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migrants they 
were in British waters and had to call the British authorities for help. By the time rescue vessels arrived on 
the scene, all but two of the migrants had died. The narrator of Delecroix’s fictional account of the events 
is the woman who took the calls. Accused of failing in her duty, she refuses to be held more responsible 
than others for this disaster. A shocking, moral tale of our times, Small Boat reminds us of the power of 
fiction to illuminate our darkest crimes. Small Boat offers a compelling and thought-provoking read and is 
shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025.
 Under the Eye of the Big Bird: From one of Japan's most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, 
Haromi KawaKami, Under the Eye of the Big Bird follows the distant future where humans  are on the verge 
of extinction and have settled in small tribes across the planet under the observation and care of "Mothers." 
Some children are made in factories, from cells of rabbits and dolphins; some live by getting nutrients from 
water and light, like plants. The survival of the race depends on the interbreeding of these and other alien 
beings, but it is far from certain that connection, love, reproduction, and evolution will persist among the 
inhabitants of this faltering new world.Unfolding over fourteen interconnected episodes spanning geological 
eons, at once technical and pastoral, mournful and utopic, Under the Eye of the Big Bird presents an 
astonishing vision of the end of our species as we know it.
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Cross-Cultural Exchange
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Encourages Publishers to Take Risks
Celebrates Literary Innovation
Inspires Readers and Writers Alike
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