Win a set of all six books from the International Booker Prize 2023 shortlist

In our new competition, we’re offering you the chance to win one of five sets of the shortlisted titles in contention for this year’s International Booker Prize

To celebrate the announcement of the International Booker Prize 2023 shortlist, we are giving you the chance to win one of five sets of all six novels that are in contention for this year’s prize. 

The International Booker Prize, which highlights fiction from across the globe, translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland, continues to build in importance and popularity every year. The shortlist of six books was unveiled on April 18, with the winning title to be announced at a ceremony in London on May 23, 2023.

Chair of Judges Leïla Slimani said this year’s shortlisted books ‘are all bold, subversive and nicely perverse’ while calling it ‘a list of remarkable variety’, where readers ‘will find poetry, fantasy, eroticism and metaphysics’.

To be in with a chance of winning one set of books, simply click on the link below and enter your details by 12:00 BST (UK time) on Friday, April 28. This competition is open to readers anywhere in the world.

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What our judges said about the shortlist

Boulder by Eva Baltasar, translated from Catalan by Julia Sanches  

‘A very intense, poetic, sensual book about all kinds of appetites. A feverish exploration of desire and a vibrant love story between two women, written with lucidity and great freedom of tone.’

Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan, translated from Korean by Chi-Young Kim  

‘This book will fill you with awe. You’ve never read a plot like it: just read it and be swept away by the sheer joy and energy of the storytelling. Cheon Myeong-Kwan has built a believable story out of preposterous situations.’

The Gospel According to the New World by Maryse Condé, translated from French by Richard Philcox

‘A joyful and optimistic book by a great storyteller, about the possibility of changing the world. It’s a deceptively simple novel full of wisdom, generosity of spirit and the writer’s palpable tenderness towards the world and her craft.’  

Standing Heavy  by GauZ’, translated from French by Frank Wynne  

‘Told in a fragmentary style – as if from different camera angles – this is the story of colonialism and consumerism, of the specifics of power and of hope diminishing as society turns cynical and corrupt.’ 

Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, translated from Bulgarian by Angela Rodel  

‘A subversive masterclass in the absurdities of national identity: so relevant now. It’s a fresh staging of old questions: the danger of selective memory, the inheritance of trauma and how nostalgia can take a grip on society.’ 

Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel, translated from Spanish by Rosalind Harvey  

‘The product of a deep wisdom, it’s honest, unsentimental and compassionate about the choices we think we’re making, and the choices that are foisted upon us.’