Green Room · selections
45 books recognised by this prize; those with a page and an offer in your market are below · About the prize.
English-language · US offers
Yáng Shuāng-zǐ
A novel presented as the translation of a rediscovered 1950s Japanese travel memoir, following a writer's lecture tour of 1930s colonial Taiwan and her friendship with her interpreter. Rich in food, language and politics.
Banu Mushtaq
Twelve stories of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India, told with colloquial wit and anger, and the first Kannada-language book to win. A good pick if you like short fiction with a strong, lived-in voice.
Jenny Erpenbeck
A 19-year-old student and a married writer decades older begin an affair in East Berlin in 1986, and their relationship tracks the last years of East Germany. It suits readers who like love stories that are also history.