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Selector archive · 2006—2025
International Booker Prize selections, presented by recognition year. Each entry links to the selector’s first-party record.
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This collection gathers twelve stories written across decades about women in Muslim communities in southern India. Its characters confront domestic inequality, social judgment, faith, poverty, and the institutions that constrain their choices.
In East Berlin in 1986, nineteen-year-old Katharina begins an affair with Hans, a married writer more than three decades her senior. Their increasingly controlling relationship unfolds alongside the final years and collapse of the German Democratic Republic.
An enigmatic therapist creates clinics that reproduce past decades for patients with dementia, using familiar rooms and objects as shelters in time. The idea spreads beyond medicine until European nations begin voting on which periods of their past they wish to inhabit.
After her husband's death, an eighty-year-old woman retreats from her family before unexpectedly recovering her independence and energy. Accompanied by her daughter, she crosses from India into Pakistan to revisit a life and love divided by Partition.
Alfa Ndiaye, a Senegalese soldier fighting for France in World War I, is traumatized by the death of his closest friend in the trenches. His nightly acts of revenge alarm his comrades and draw the narration deeper into memory, guilt, and psychic disintegration.
Ten-year-old Jas lives on a strict Dutch dairy farm where her older brother's death leaves the family unable to speak openly about grief. Her observant, increasingly disturbing narration records bodily fears, religious anxiety, and the siblings' attempts to make sense of neglect.
Three sisters in the Omani village of al-Awafi make different choices about marriage, education, and their futures. Their family's interwoven histories reveal how slavery, wealth, love, and social change continue to shape life across generations.
A mobile narrator moves among airports, museums, maps, and stories of travelers, anatomists, refugees, and preserved bodies. The novel's fragments connect physical movement with efforts to understand, document, and evade the mortal body.
Stand-up comedian Dovaleh Green performs an increasingly volatile set in a small Israeli club while a retired judge watches from the audience. Jokes gradually give way to humiliation and a childhood memory that the performer has organized the evening to confront.
After disturbing dreams, Yeong-hye stops eating meat, a private decision her husband and family treat as an intolerable rebellion. Three linked perspectives trace the coercion, desire, and estrangement that follow as she seeks a radically different relationship with her body.