The International Booker Prize 2025 - the longlist
The longlist for the International Booker Prize 2025 has been announced!
The prize celebrates the best works of long-form fiction or collections of short stories translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland between May 2024 and April 2025.
The prize recognises the vital work of translators with a £50,000 prize money. In addition, there is a prize of £5,000 for each of the shortlisted titles.
The shortlist of six books will be announced on Tuesday, 8 April. The winner will be announced at a ceremony at London’s Tate Modern on Tuesday, 20 May.
Our agency represents on behalf of Zsolnay Verlag:
Mircea Cărtărescu, SOLENOID
Published by Pushink Press in june 2024 (tr. Sean Cotter)
In Italy, Il Saggiatore published SOLENOIDE in 2021 (tr. Bruno Mazzoni)
Grounded in the reality of communist Romania, the novel grapples with frightening health care, the absurdities of the education system and the struggles of family life, while investigating other universes and forking paths.
In a surreal journey like no other, we visit a tuberculosis preventorium, an anti-death protest movement, a society of dream investigators and a minuscule world of dust mites living on a microscope slide. Combining fiction and history wth autobiography – the book is partly based on Cărtărescu’s experiences as a teacher – Solenoid searches for escape routes through the alternate dimensions of life and art, as various monstrous realities erupt within the present.
Solenoid won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2023 and last year Cărtărescu received the Mondello International Literary Prize.
