Year Author Original title English, French or German translation Result Ref. 2010 Aleksandar Hemon The Lazarus Project Winner [ 6] Yousef Al-Mohaimeed فخاخ الرائحة Wolves of the Crescent Moon Finalists Tim Flannery The Weather Makers Laurent Binet HHhH Nominee Péter Esterházy Harmonia cælestis Celestial Harmonies Alois Hotschnig Im Sitzen läuft es sich besser davon Viktor Malakhov Уязвимость любви Frédéric Martinez Claude Monet, une vie au fil de l’eau Klaus Merz Der Argentinier Pavel Sanaev Похороните меня за плинтусом 2011 György Dragomán A fehér király The White King Winner [ 7] Miguel Syjuco Ilustrado Finalists Sjón Skugga-Baldur The Blue Fox Liu Xiaobo — No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems Nominee Peter Fröberg Idling Pol Pots leende Pol Pot’s Smile Mark Kharitonov Проект Одиночество Antoni Libera Godot i jego cień 2012 Julia Lovell The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China Winner [ 8] Martin Pollack Kaiser von Amerika: Die große Flucht aus Galizien Finalists Timothy Snyder Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin Philippe Cassard Franz Schubert Nominee Patrick Deville Kampuchéa Mark Gevisser Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred Donald Ray Pollock The Devil All the Time Maria Rybakova Острый нож для мягкого сердца Couteau tranchant pour un cœur tendre Bruno Smolarz Hokusaï aux doigts d’encre 2013 Mahmoud Dowlatabadi زوال کلنل The Colonel Winner [ 9] [ 10] Serge Gruzinski L’aigle et le Dragon: Démesure européenne et mondialisation au XVIe siècle Finalists [ 11] Steve Sem-Sandberg De fattiga i Łódź The Emperor of Lies Robert Macfarlane The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot Second selection Uday Prakash — The Walls of Delhi Janusz Głowacki Good night, Dżerzi First selection Chan Koonchung 盛世：中國，2013年 The Fat Years Charu Nivedita ஸீரோ டிகிரி Zero Degree Tiphaine Samoyault Bête de cirque Enrique Vila-Matas Chet Baker piensa en su arte Chris Ware Building Stories 2014 Serhiy Zhadan Ворошиловград Voroshylovhrad Winner [ 12] [ 13] Mark Gevisser Dispatcher: Lost and Found in Johannesburg Finalists Marci Shore The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe Rana Mitter China’s War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival Second selection Jaume Cabré Confiteor Confessions Maxime Raymond Bock Atavismes Atavisms First selection Camille de Toledo Oublier, trahir puis disparaître Paul Harding Enon Fanny Howe Second Childhood Wojciech Nowicki Salki Dragan Velikić Bonavia Najem Wali ملائكة الجنوب Engel des Südens 2015 Mark Thompson Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kiš Winner [ 14] Navid Kermani Zwischen Koran und Kafka: West-östliche Erkundungen Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Inquiries Finalists Najem Wali بغداد مالبورو، من أجل برادلي مانينك Bagdad Marlboro: Ein Roman für Bradley Manning Jean-Noël Orengo La Fleur du Capital Second selection Ari Shavit My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel Philipp Ther Die neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent: Eine Geschichte des neoliberalen Europa Europe since 1989: A History First selection Lucian Dan Teodorovici Matei Brunul L’histoire de Bruno Matei Frédéric Badré La grande santé Valentin Retz Noir parfait Hermione Lee Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life Lisa Jarnot Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography Gansel Mireille Traduire comme transhumer Translation as Transhumance 2016 Georgi Gospodinov Физика на тъгата Physics of Sorrow Winner [ 15] [ 16] Dževad Karahasan Što pepeo priča The Solace of the Night Sky Finalists Aatish Taseer The Way Things Were Julian Barnes Levels of Life Second selection Navid Kermani Ungläubiges Staunen: Über das Christentum Wonder Beyond Belief: On Christianity Ada Limón Bright Dead Things First selection Alberto Mangel Curiosity Iván Sándor Az éjszaka mélyén, 1914 Husar in der Hölle, 1914 Andrea Bajani La vita non è in ordine alfabetico Fariba Hachtroudi Le colonel et l’appât 455 The Man Who Snapped His Fingers Stefan Banz Louis Michel Eilshemius: Peer of Poet-Painters Patrick McGuinness Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siècle France: From Anarchism to Action française Víctor del Árbol Un millón de gotas A Million Drops Ulrike Guérot Warum Europa eine Republik werden muss! Eine politische Utopie Why Europe Should Become a Republic! A Political Utopia 2017 Thierry Wolton Une histoire mondiale du communisme Winner [ 17] Lawrence Liang Invisible Libraries Finalists Liao Yiwu 輪迴的螞蟻 Die Wiedergeburt der Ameisen Paul Kalanithi When Breath Becomes Air Second selection Wioletta Greg Guguły Swallowing Mercury Yuriy Vynnychuk Танґо смерті Tango of Death First selection Eugénie Paultre L’état actuel des choses Alvar González-Palacios Solo ombre: Silhouettes storiche, letterarie e mondane Peter Frankopan The Silk Roads: A New History of the World 2018 Olga Tokarczuk Księgi Jakubowe The Books of Jacob Winner [ 18] Yuval Noah Harari ההיסטוריה של המחר Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Finalists Jean Rolin Le traquet kurde Norman Ohler Der totale Rausch: Drogen im Dritten Reich Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Second selection Patrick McGuinness Other People’s Countries: A Journey into Memory Maggie Nelson The Argonauts First selection Virginie Despentes Vernon Subutex George Szirtes Bad Machine Preti Taneja We That Are Young 2019 Zeruya Shalev כאב Pain Winner [ 19] Francesca Melandri Sangue giusto Finalists Patrik Ouředník La fin du monde n’aurait pas eu lieu The End of the World Might Not Have Taken Place Antonio Iturbe La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz The Librarian of Auschwitz Second selection Morgan Sportès Le ciel ne parle pas First selection Long Litt Woon Stien tilbake til livet: Om sopp og sorg The Way Through the Woods: Of Mushrooms and Mourning 2020 Mia Couto As Areias do Imperador Sands of the Emperor Winner [ 20] [ 21] Fran Ross Oreo Finalists Philippe Sands East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity Érik Orsenna Briser en nous la mer gelée Second selection Bernard Quiriny Vies conjugales Roland Schimmelpfennig An einem klaren, eiskalten Januarmorgen zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts One Clear, Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century First selection Vigdis Hjorth Arv og miljø Will and Testament Wojciech Nowicki Cieśniny Nastassja Martin Croire aux fauves In the Eye of the Wild Yurii Andrukhovych Коханці юстиції Die Lieblinge der Justiz António Damásio The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures Catherine Meurisse La Légèreté Lightness Sergei Lebedev Предел забвения Oblivion Sorj Chalandon Le jour d’avant Viet Thanh Nguyen The Sympathizer Ruth Zylberman 209 rue Saint-Maur, Paris Xe : Autobiographie d’un immeuble The Department of Missing Persons 2021 Memorial International (Alena Kozlova, Nikolai Mikhailov, Irina Ostrovskaya, and Irina Scherbakova ) with Georgia Thomson (trans.)Знак не сотрется: Судьбы остарбайтеров в письмах, воспоминаниях и устных рассказах OST: Letters, Memoirs and Stories from Ostarbeiter in Nazi Germany Winner [ 22] Frank Huyler White Hot Light: Twenty-five Years in Emergency Medicine Finalists Eduardo Halfon Daniel Hahn (trans.)Duelo Mourning Sophy Roberts The Lost Pianos of Siberia Second selection Sergei Lebedev Antonina W. Bouis (trans.)Дебютант Untraceable Daniel Mendelsohn Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate First selection Mário Cláudio Tríptico da Salvação Ksenia Buksha Открывается внутрь Maria Stepanova Памяти памяти In Memory of Memory Judith Schalansky Verzeichnis einiger Verluste An Inventory of Losses Édouard Louis Qui a tué mon père Who Killed My Father Mathieu Sapin Gérard: Cinq années dans les pattes de Depardieu Gérard: Five Years with Depardieu Lisa Mandel Une année exemplaire Patrice Jean L’homme surnuméraire Claude Hunzinger Les grands cerfs Carmen Boullosa El libro de Ana The Book of Anna 2022 Taina Tervonen Les fossoyeuses Winner [ 23] Eliane Brum A vida que ninguém vê The Collector of Leftover Souls: Dispatches from Brazil Finalists — My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women Perrine Lamy-Quique Dans leur nuit Second selection Laurent Binet Civilizations Nathacha Appanah Le ciel par-dessus le toit The Sky Above the Roof First selection M. John Harrison The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again Georgi Gospodinov Времеубежище Time Shelter Cat Jarman River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads Tanguy Viel La fille qu’on appelle The Girl You Call Stéphanie Coste Le passeur 2023 Karina Sainz Borgo El Tercer País Winner [ 24] Suzanne Simard Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest Finalists Hamid Ismailov Manaschi Emanuele Trevi Due vite Second selection Stefan Hertmans De opgang The Ascent Hélène Frappat Trois femmes disparaissent First selection Michel Houellebecq Anéantir Annihilation Eva Baltasar Boulder Anna Badkhen Bright Unbearable Reality Agustín Fernández Mallo El libro de todos los amores The Book of All Loves Sara Stridsberg Kärlekens Antarktis The Antarctica of Love Aslak Nore Havets kirkegård The Sea Cemetery Sally Hayden My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route Sigrid Nunez What Are You Going Through? 2024 Kate Beaton Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands Winner [ 25] Mathieu Belazi Attaquer la terre et le soleil Finalists Irene Solà Canto jo i la muntanya balla When I Sing, Mountains Dance Iman Mersal في أثر عنايات الزيات Traces of Enayat Second selection Fabienne Radi Une autobiographie de Nina Childress Carlos Fonseca Austral First selection Sylvain Tesson Avec les fées Byung-Chul Han Infokratie: Digitalisierung und die Krise der Demokratie Infocracy: Digitization and the Crisis of Democracy Yasmina Reza James Brown mettait des bigoudis Cecile Pin Wandering Souls Hisham Matar My Friends Fernanda Melchor Páradais Paradais Gaëlle Obiégly Sans valeur Adam Thirlwell The Future Future 
Aleksandar Hemon 
Yousef Al-Mohaimeed 
Tim Flannery 
Laurent Binet 
Péter Esterházy 
Alois Hotschnig 
Viktor Malakhov 
Klaus Merz 
Pavel Sanaev 
Miguel Syjuco 
Sjón 
Peter Fröberg Idling 
Antoni Libera 
Julia Lovell 
Mark Gevisser 
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 
Uday Prakash 
Enrique Vila-Matas 
Maxime Raymond Bock 
Dragan Velikić 
Najem Wali 
Ari Shavit 
Lucian Dan Teodorovici 
Georgi Gospodinov 
Alberto Mangel 
Andrea Bajani 
Alvar González-Palacios 
Long Litt Woon 
Mia Couto with David Brookshaw (trans.)
Bernard Quiriny 
António Damásio 
Viet Thanh Nguyen 
Eduardo Halfon with Lisa Dillman and Daniel Hahn (trans.)
Carmen Boullosa 
Eliane Brum with Diane Grosklaus Whitty (trans.)
Sally Hayden 
Iman Mersal 
Carlos Fonseca
