De shortlist van de Independent Foreign Fiction Prize is bekend. De shortlist is als volgt:

A Meal in Winter – Hubert Mingarelli, vertaald door Sam Taylor

Strange Weather in Tokyo – Hiromi Kawakami, vertaald door Allison Markin Powell

A Man in Love – Karl Ove Knausgaard, vertaald door Don Bartlett

Revenge – Yoko Ogawa, vertaald door Stephen Snyder

Iraqi Christ – Hassan Blasim, vertaald door Jonathan Wright

The Mussel Feast – Birgit Vanderbeke, vertaald door Jamie Bulloch

De Independent Foreign Fiction prijs bekroont fictie ‘which has been translated into English from any other language and published in the United Kingdom. Uniquely, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize gives the winning author and translator equal status: each receives £5,000.’