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PREVIOUS NOMINATIONS

1996

Christina Wolf

What Remains and Other Stories

2026

Oliver Lovrenski

Back in the Day

2025

Elizabeth O’Connor

Whale Fall

2024

Ulrike Almut Sandig

Monsters Like Us

2023

Pierre Jarawan

Song for the Missing

2022

Daniela Krien

Love in Five Acts

2021

Marion Poschmann

The Pine Islands

2020

Benedict Wells

The End of Loneliness

2017

Fredrik Backman

My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises

2017

Isabel Allende

The Japanese Lover

2016

Ian McEwan

The Children Act

2016

Stefanie de Velasco

Tiger Milk

2015

Daniela Krien

Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything

2015

Mikhail Shishkin

The Light and the Dark

2014

Anne Tyler

The Beginner’s Goodbye

2013

David Guterson

Ed King

2012

Jonathan Franzen

Freedom

2012

Daniel Kehlmann

Fame

2012

David Grossman

To the End of the Land

2011

Kamila Shamsie

Burnt Shadows

2011

Siegfried Lenz

A Minute’s Silence

2011

Julia Franck

The Blind Side of the Heart

2010

Christoph Hein

Settlement

2008

Daniel Kehlmann

Measuring The World

2008

Kiran Desai

The Inheritance of Loss

2007

Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore

2007

Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go

2007

Phillippe Claudel

Grey Souls

2006

Carlos Ruiz Zafron

The Shadow of the Wind

2006

Kate Atkinson

Case Histories

2005

Adam Thirlwell

Politics

2005

DBC Pierre

Vernon God Little

2005

T.C. Boyle

Drop City

2004

Jonathan Safran Foer

Everything is Illuminated

2004

Zeruya Shalev

Husband and Wife

2004

Jeffrey Eugenides

Middlesex

2003

Cees Nooteboom

All Soul’s Day

2003

Per Olov Enquist

The Royal Physician’s Visit

2002

Michel Houllebecq

Atomised

2001

J. M. Coetzee

Disgrace

2001

Isabel Allende

Daughter of Fortune

2000

Jean Rouaud

The World More or Less

2000

Paulo Coelho

The Fifth Mountain

2000

John Irving

A Widow For One Year

1999

Zoé Valdés

Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada

1999

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

1998

Mario Vargas Llosa

Death in the Andes

1998

E. Annie Proulx

Accordion Crimes

1998

Milan Kundera

Slowness

1997

Antonio Tabucchi

Declares Pereira (Pereira Maintains)

1997

Susanna Tamaro

Follow Your Heart

1997

Robert Schneider

Brother of Sleep

1996

Jostein Gaarder

Sophie’s World

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