The International Booker Prize for fiction translated into English is awarded annually to the author and translator of the best (in the opinion of the judges) eligible work of long-form fiction or collection of short stories. The work must be published by a UK or Ireland publishing house between 1 May 2022 and 30 April 2023. Authors are not permitted to enter their own works.
The deadline for completing online entry forms is Friday 30 September 2022.
Deadlines for sending PDFs and print copies to Four Culture are:
- Friday 4 November 2022 for works published between 1 May and 31 December 2022
- Friday 13 January 2023 for works published between 1 January and 30 April 2023.
Please read the full rules of the International Booker Prize before completing your entry form – the document includes details of where to send books and accompanying promotional material.
Personal Data
Please help the Booker Prize Foundation and Four Culture by providing as much information in the entry form as you can. While not all of the author and translator personal data fields are marked as required, we ask for this information for use in any public statements we make about the prize, for example the longlist announcement. We will also share relevant information with media for their guidance at an appropriate time. Please ensure that you have the sufficient authority from the author and translator/s to enable you to provide this information for this purpose. We will check any author/translator pronouns are up to date before making any public announcements.
Confidentiality
Should any information be made available to you during the prize process that is embargoed, the Booker Prize Foundation will do so on the basis this it must not be disclosed to any third party outside of your organisation and should be shared with anyone within your organisation on a strictly need-to-know basis, until the embargo date and time. By completing this entry form, you confirm that you/the publicist and/or editor accept responsibility to ensure the embargo is observed.
Please note: if you are submitting more than one book, please complete a new form for each book.