Na “długiej liście” autorów nominowanych do tegorocznej edycji Nagrody znalazło się 13 utworów tłumaczonych z 11 języków, pochodzących z 12 krajów i czterech kontynentów – w tym po raz pierwszy utwór tłumaczony z  języka hindi.

Na liście znaleźli się ponownie poprzedni zwycięzcy, Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft, David Grossman i Jessica Cohen
Oto long list nominowanych do International Booker Prize:

• Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung translated from Korean by Anton Hur
• After The Sun by Jonas Eika translated from Danish by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg
• A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse translated from Norwegian by Damion Searls
• More Than I Love My Life by David Grossman translated from Hebrew by Jessica Cohen
• The Book of Mother by Violaine Huisman translated from French by Leslie Camhi
• Heaven by Mieko Kawakami translated from Japanese by Samuel Bett and David Boyd
• Paradais by Fernanda Melchor translated from Spanish by Sophie Hughes
• Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park translated from Korean by Anton Hur
• Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu translated from Indonesian by Tiffany Tsao
• Elena Knowsby by Claudia Piñeiro translated from Spanish by Frances Riddle
• Phenotypes by Paulo Scott translated from Portuguese by Daniel Hahn
• Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell
• The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk translated from Polish by Jennifer Croft