Curated category · 2006—2025

Best translated fiction

Award-winning and editorially recommended translated fiction across twenty years, organized for discovery rather than sales ranking.

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Showing 1–10 of 10

2025Translated fiction

Heart Lamp

by Banu Mushtaq

  • International Booker Prize

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.

2024Translated fiction

Kairos

by Jenny Erpenbeck

  • International Booker Prize

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.

2023Translated fiction

Time Shelter

by Georgi Gospodinov

  • International Booker Prize

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.

2022Translated fiction

Tomb of Sand

by Geetanjali Shree

  • International Booker Prize

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.

2018Translated fiction

Flights

by Olga Tokarczuk

  • International Booker Prize

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.

2016Translated fiction

The Vegetarian

by Han Kang

  • International Booker Prize

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.