Don Shaw (translators), for The Unseen (De usynlige) Dorthe Nors (Denmark), Misha Hoekstra (translator), for Mirror, Shoulder, Signal (Spejl, skulder, blink) Amos Oz (Israel), Nicholas de Lange (translator), for Judas (הבשורה על-פי יהודה) Samanta Schweblin (Argentina), Megan McDowell (translator), for Fever Dream (Distancia de rescate), translated from Spanish Longlist Wioletta Greg (Poland), Eliza Marciniak (translator), for Swallowing Mercury (Guguly) Stefan Hertmans (Belgium), David McKay (translator), for War and Turpentine (Oorlog en terpentijn) Ismail Kadare (Albania), John Hodgson (translator), for The Traitor's Niche (Kamarja e turpit) Jón Kalman Stefánsson (Iceland), Phil Roughton (translator), for Fish Have No Feet (Fiskarnir hafa enga fætur) Yan Lianke (China), Carlos Rojas (translator), for The Explosion Chronicles (炸裂志) Alain Mabanckou (France), Helen Stevenson (translator), for Black Moses (Petit Piment) Clemens Meyer (Germany), Katy Derbyshire (translator), for Bricks and Mortar (Im Stein) 2018 The 2018 prize was judged by Lisa Appignanesi, (Chair), Michael Hofmann, Hari Kunzru, Tim Martin and Helen Oyeyemi. The longlist for the ninth Man Booker International Prize was announced on 12 March 2018. The shortlist of six books was announced on 12 April 2018 at an event at Somerset House in London. The winner was announced on 22 May 2018 at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Tokarczuk is the first Polish author to win the award, and shared the prize with Croft. Lisa Appignanesi described Tokarczuk as a "writer of wonderful wit, imagination, and literary panache." Winner Olga Tokarczuk (Poland), Jennifer Croft (translator), for Flights (Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) Riverhead Books (USA)) (Bieguni) Shortlist Virginie Despentes (France), Frank Wynne (translator), for Vernon Subutex 1 (MacLehose Press) Han Kang (South Korea), Deborah Smith (translator), for The White Book (Portobello Books) (흰) László Krasznahorkai (Hungary), John Batki, Ottilie Mulzet & George Szirtes (translators), for The World Goes On (Tuskar Rock Press) (Megy a világ) Antonio Muñoz Molina (Spain), Camilo A. Ramirez (translator), for Like a Fading Shadow (Tuskar Rock Press) (Como la sombra que se va) Ahmed Saadawi (Iraq), Jonathan Wright (translator), for Frankenstein in Baghdad (Oneworld) (فرانكشتاين في بغداد) Longlist Laurent Binet (France), Sam Taylor (translator) for The 7th Function of Language (Harvill Secker) (La Septième Fonction du langage) Javier Cercas (Spain), Frank Wynne (translator), for The Impostor (MacLehose Press) (El impostor) Jenny Erpenbeck (Germany), Susan Bernofsky (translator), for Go, Went, Gone (Portobello Books) (Gehen, ging, gegangen) Ariana Harwicz (Argentina), Sarah Moses & Carolina Orloff (translators), for Die, My Love (Charco Press) (Matate, amor),