International Booker Prize Longlist 2026

We are honored to celebrate that We Are Green and Trembling, The Wax Child, and The Deserters are longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026.

Congratulations to Gabriela Cabezón Cámara and Robin Myers, author and translator of We Are Green and Trembling, to Olga Ravn and Martin Aitken, author and translator of The Wax Child, and to Mathias Énard and Charlotte Mandell, author and translator of The Deserters

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We Are Green and Trembling
by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
translated by Robin Myers

  • “Luminous, wild, lyrical and inventive . . . A vivid and audacious story that reclaims history through language itself.”—International Booker Prize Committee
  • ★ “Sensuous and searing—readers will be riveted by this queer anticolonial picaresque.”
    —Publishers Weekly (starred)

The Wax Child
by Olga Ravn
translated by Martin Aitken

  • “This unforgettable novel is compulsively readable yet anything but biddable...This haunting, gripping and singular historical novel cast a spell on us.”
    —International Booker Prize Committee
  • ★ “Gripping . . . This devilishly subversive feminist anthem is one of a kind.”—Publishers Weekly (starred)

The Deserters
by Mathias Énard
translated by Charlotte Mandell

  • “The Deserters weaves together two stories, told in very contrasting voices, exploring themes of commitment and betrayal, hope and survival, during times of war.”
    —International Booker Prize Committee
  • ★ “With an unflinching depiction of civilization’s decline and its dystopic aftermath, Énard builds a great work of art . . .It’s a masterpiece.” —Publishers Weekly (starred)
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