Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize was a British literary award. It was inaugurated by British newspaper The Independent to honour contemporary fiction in translation in the United Kingdom. The award was first launched in 1990 and ran for five years before falling into abeyance. It was revived in 2001 with the financial support of Arts Council England. Beginning in 2011 the administration of the prize was taken over by BookTrust, but retaining the "Independent" in the name. In 2015, the award was disbanded in a "reconfiguration" in which it was merged with the Man Booker International Prize.
Entries were published in English translation in the UK in the year preceding the award by a living author. The prize acknowledged both the winning novelist and translator, each being awarded £5,000 and a magnum of champagne from drinks sponsor Champagne Taittinger.
Winners, shortlists and longlists
Blue Ribbon = winner1990
- Orhan Pamuk, The White Castle
1991
- Milan Kundera, Immortality
1992
- Simon Leys, The Death Of Napoleon
- Slavenka Drakulic, Holograms Of Fear
- Pawel Huelle, Who Was David Weiser?
- Yashar Kemal, To Crush The Serpent
- Ivan Klima, Judge On Trial
- Dacia Maraini, The Silent Duchess
- Carlo Mazzantini, In Search Of A Glorious Death
- Erik Orsenna, Love And Empire
- Giorgio Pressburger, The Law Of White Spaces
- Jean Rouaud, Fields Of Glory
- Leonardio Sciascia, The Knight And Death
- Antonio Tabucchi, Vanishing Point
1993
- José Saramago, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
- Juan Goytisolo, Makbara
- Gunter Grass, The Call Of The Toad
- Ismail Kadare, The Palace Of Dreams
- Ivan Klima, My Golden Trades
- A B Yehoshua, Mr Mani
1994
- Bao Ninh, The Sorrow of War
- Shusaku Endo, Deep River
- Margriet de Moor, First Grey, Then White, Then Blue
- Isabel Allende, The Infinite Plan
1995
- Gert Hofmann, The Film Explainer
1996 to 2000
2001
Shortlist- Marta Morazzoni, The Alphonse Courrier Affair
- Marc Dugain, The Officers' Ward
- Michel Houellebecq, Atomised
- Antonio Tabucchi, The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro
- May Telmissany, Dunyazard
- Hans-Ulrich Treichel, Lost
2002
- W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz
- Agnès Desarthe, Five Photos of My Wife
- Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
- Andrey Kurkov, Death and the Penguin
- Hanan al-Shaykh, Only in London
- H.M. van den Brink, On the Water
2003
- Per Olov Enquist, The Visit of the Royal Physician
- Frédéric Beigbeder, £9.99
- Peter Stephan Jungk, The Snowflake Constant
- Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat
- José Saramago, The Cave
- José Carlos Somoza, The Athenian Murders
- Umberto Eco, Baudolino
- Jens Christian Grøndahl, Lucca
- Norbert Gstrein, The English Years
- Milton Hatoum, The Brothers
- Michel Houellebecq, Platform
- Milan Kundera, Ignorance
- Amin Maalouf, Balthasar's Odyssey
- Patricia Melo, Inferno
- Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Nautical Chart
- Atiq Rahimi, Earth And Ashes
2004
- Javier Cercas, Soldiers of Salamis
- Juan Marsé, Lizard Tails
- Elke Schmitter, Mrs Sartoris
- Ricardo Piglia, Money to Burn
- Luther Blissett, Q
- Mahi Binebine, Welcome to Paradise
2005
- Frédéric Beigbeder, Windows on the World
- Chico Buarque, Budapest,
- Irina Denezhkina, Give Me ,
- Xiaolu Guo, Village of Stone,
- Orhan Pamuk, Snow,
- Elif Şafak, The Flea Palace,
- David Albahari, Götz and Meyer
- Merete Morken Andersen, Oceans of Time
- Mia Couto, The Last Flight of the Flamingo
- Edgardo Cozarinsky, The Bride from Odessa
- Victor Erofeyev, Life with an Idiot
- Turki al-Hamad, Shumaisi
- Torgny Lindgren, Hash
- Enrico Remmert, The Ballad of the Low Lifes
- José Saramago, The Double
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind''
2006
Shortlist
- Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses
- Pawel Huelle, Mercedes-Benz
- Tahar Ben Jelloun, This Blinding Absence of Light
- Imre Kertész, Fatelessness
- Magda Szabó, The Door
- Dubravka Ugrešić, The Ministry of Pain
- Tonino Benacquista, Someone Else
- Stefan Chwin, Death in Danzig
- Philippe Claudel, Grey Souls
- Marie Darrieussecq, White
- Karen Duve, This is Not a Love Song
- David Grossman, Lovers and Strangers
- Judith Hermann, Nothing but Ghosts
- Ellen Mattson, Snow
- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
- Dai Sijie, Mr Muo's Travelling Couch
2007
- José Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons,
- Per Olov Enquist, The Story of Blanche and Marie,
- Vangelis Hatziyannidis, Four Walls
- Javier Marías, Your Face Tomorrow, 2: Dance and Dream
- Eva Menasse, Vienna
- Dag Solstad, Shyness and Dignity
- Kader Abdolah, My Father's Notebook
- Niccolò Ammaniti, Steal You Away
- Javier Cercas, The Speed of Light
- Edgardo Cozarinsky, The Moldavian Pimp
- Jenny Erpenbeck, The Old Child
- Faïza Guène, Just Like Tomorrow
- Ismail Kadare, The Successor
- Ma Jian, Stick out your Tongue
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow
- Leonardo Padura, Havana Black
- Atiq Rahimi, A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear
- José Saramago, Seeing
- Elif Shafak, The Gaze
- Linn Ullmann, Grace
2008
- Paul Verhaeghen, Omega Minor
- Pawel Huelle, Castorp
- Daniel Kehlmann, Measuring the World
- Bengt Ohlsson, Gregorius
- Lars Saabye Christensen, The Model
- Marlene van Niekerk, The Way of the Women
- Alaa al Aswany, The Yacoubian Building
- Jenny Erpenbeck, The Book of Words
- Bi Feiyu, The Moon Opera
- Ismail Kadare, Agamemnon's Daughter
- Sayed Kashua, Let It Be Morning
- Erwin Mortier, Shutterspeed
- Alan Pauls, The Past
- Peter Pišťanek, Rivers of Babylon
- Laura Restrepo, Delirium
- Yasmina Traboulsi, Bahia Blues
- Enrique Vila-Matas, Montano
2009
- Evelio Rosero, The Armies
- Celine Curiol, Voice Over
- Ma Jian, Beijing Coma
- Ismail Kadare, The Siege
- Juan Gabriel Vasquez, The Informers
- AB Yehoshua, Friendly Fire
- Sjón, The Blue Fox
- Jose Eduardo Agualusa, My Father's Wives
- Dag Solstad, Novel 11, Book 18
- Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool
- Eshkol Nevo, Homesick
- Linn Ullmann, A Blessed Child
- Thomas Glavinic, Night Work
- Gyorgy Dragoman, The White King
- Alexander Ahndoril, The Director
- Saša Stanišić, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
2010
- Philippe Claudel, Brodeck's Report MacLehose Press
- Julia Franck, The Blindness of the Heart Harvill Secker
- Pietro Grossi, Fists Pushkin Press
- Alain Mabanckou, Broken Glass Serpent's Tail
- Sankar, Chowringhee Atlantic
- Rafik Schami, The Dark Side of Love Arabia Books
- Boris Akunin, The Coronation Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Ketil Bjørnstad, To Music Maia Press
- Hassan Blasim, The Madman of Freedom Square Comma Press
- Elias Khoury, Yalo MacLehose Press
- Jonathan Littell, The Kindly Ones Chatto & Windus
- Javier Marías, Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell Chatto & Windus
- Yōko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor Harvill Secker
- Claudia Piñeiro, Thursday Night Widows Bitter Lemon Press
- Bahaa Taher, Sunset Oasis Sceptre
2011
- Santiago Roncagliolo, Red April translated by Edith Grossman, Spanish
- Marcelo Figueras, Kamchatka translated by Frank Wynne, Spanish
- Alberto Berrera Tyszka, The Sickness translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Spanish
- Jenny Erpenbeck, Visitation translated by Susan Bernofsky, German
- Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence translated by Maureen Freely, Turkish
- Per Petterson, I Curse the River of Time translated by Charlotte Barslund with Per Petterson, Norwegian
- Veronique Olmi, Beside the Sea; translated by Adriana Hunter, French
- David Grossman, To the End of the Land; translated by Jessica Cohen, Hebrew
- Daniel Kehlmann, Fame translated by Carol Brown Janeway, German
- Juan Gabriel Vasquez, The Secret History of Costaguana translated by Anne McLean, Spanish
- Michal Witkowski, Lovetown translated by W Martin, Polish
- Jachym Topol, Gargling with Tar translated by David Short, Czech
- Juli Zeh, Dark Matter translated by Christine Lo, German
- Shuichi Yoshida, Villain translated by Philip Gabriel, Japanese
- Per Wästberg, The Journey of Anders Sparrman translated by Tom Geddes, Swedish
2012
- Aharon Appelfeld, Blooms of Darkness translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green
- Judith Hermann, Alice translated from the German by Margot Bettauer Dembo
- Yan Lianke, Dream of Ding Village translated from the Chinese by Cindy Carter
- Sjón, From the Mouth of the Whale translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb
- Diego Marani, New Finnish Grammar translated from the Italian by Judith Landry
- Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon
- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84: Books 1 and 2, translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin
- Steve Sem-Sandberg, The Emperor of Lies translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death
- Tristan Garcia, translated from the French by Marion Duvert and Lorin Stein
- Matthias Politycki, Next World Novella translated from the German by Anthea Bell
- Péter Nádas, Parallel Stories translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein
- Kyung-sook Shin, Please Look After Mother translated from the Korean by Shin Chi-Young Kim
- Dag Solstad, Professor Andersen's Night translated from the Norwegian by Agnes Scott Langeland
- Amos Oz, Scenes From Village Life translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas De Lange
- Bernardo Atxaga, Seven Houses in France translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
2013
- Gerbrand Bakker, The Detour, Harvill Secker
- Chris Barnard, Bundu, Alma Books
- Daša Drndić, Trieste, MacLehose Press
- Ismail Kadare, The Fall of the Stone City, Canongate
- Andrés Neuman, Traveller of the Century, Pushkin Press
- Enrique Vila-Matas, Dublinesque, Harvill Secker
- Laurent Binet, HHhH, Harvill Secker
- Pawel Huelle, Cold Sea Stories, Comma Press
- Pia Juul, The Murder of Halland, Peirene Press
- Khaled Khalifa, In Praise of Hatred, Doubleday
- Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family , Harvill Secker
- Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Satantango, Tuskar Rock
- Alain Mabanckou, Black Bazaar, Serpent's Tail
- Diego Marani, The Last of the Vostyachs, Dedalus
- Orhan Pamuk, Silent House, Faber
- Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Sound of Things Falling, Bloomsbury
2014
- Hassan Blasim, The Iraqi Christ
- Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Man in Love
- Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo
- Hubert Mingarelli, A Meal in Winter
- Yōko Ogawa, Revenge
- Birgit Vanderbeke, The Mussel Feast - special mention by the jury.
- Sinan Antoon, The Corpse Washer
- Julia Franck, Back to Back
- Sayed Kashua, Exposure
- Andrej Longo, Ten
- Ma Jian, The Dark Road
- Andreï Makine, Brief Loves that Live Forever
- Javier Marías, The Infatuations
- Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Butterflies in November
- Jón Kalman Stefánsson, The Sorrow of Angels
2015
- Jenny Erpenbeck, The End of Days
- Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, By Night the Mountain Burns
- Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
- Daniel Kehlmann, F
- Tomás González, In the Beginning Was the Sea
- Erwin Mortier, While the Gods Were Sleeping
- Tomas Bannerhed, The Ravens
- Marcello Fois, Bloodlines
- Hamid Ismailov, The Dead Lake
- Karl Ove Knausgaard, Boyhood Island
- Jung-Myung Lee, The Investigation
- Judith Schalansky, The Giraffe's Neck
- Stefanie de Velasco, Tiger Milk
- Timur Vermes, Look Who's Back
- Can Xue, The Last Lover