International Literature Award (German: Internationaler Literaturpreis – Haus der Kulturen der Welt) is a German literary award for international prose translated into German for the first time. The prize has been awarded annually by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the foundation “Elementarteilchen” since 2009. Winning authors receive €20,000 and the translators €15,000. The award has compared as the German near-equivalent of the Best Translated Book Award or Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Winners and shortlists Blue Ribbon () = winner 2009 Author Daniel Alarcón and translator Friederike Meltendorf for Lost City Radio (Wagenbach Verlag) 2010 Marie NDiaye and translator Claudia Kalscheuer for Drei starke Frauen (Orig: Trois femmes puissantes) (Suhrkamp Verlag) 2011 Michail Schischkin and translator Andreas Tretner for Venushaar (Orig: Venerin Volos) (DVA) 2012 Jaume Cabré, Jo confesso (Catalan, trans. Kirsten Brandt and Petra Zickmann) Mircea Cărtărescu, Corpul (Romanian, trans. Gerhardt Csejka and Ferdinand Leopold) Nedim Gürsel, Allah’ ιn Kιzlarι (Turkish, trans. Barbara Yurtdas) Tom McCarthy, C. (English, trans. Bernhard Robben) Péter Nádas, Párhuzamos történetek (Hungarian, trans. Christina Viragh) Téa Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife (English, trans. Bettina Abarbanell) 2013 Andrej Bitow, Prepodavatel' simmetrii (Russian, trans. Rosemarie Tietze) Teju Cole, Open City (English, trans. Christine Richter-Nilsson) Lloyd Jones, Hand Me Down World (English, trans. Grete Osterwald) Valeria Luiselli, Los Ingrávidos (Spanish, trans. Dagmar Ploetz-Timm) Zakhar Prilepin, Sankya (Russian, trans. Erich Klein and Susanne Macht) Jean Rolin, Un chien mort après lui (French, trans. Holger Fock and Sabine Müller) 2014 Zsófia Bán, Amikor még csak az állatok éltek (Hungarian, trans. Terézia Mora) Georgi Gospodinov, Fizika na tagata (Bulgarian, trans. Alexander Sitzmann) Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (English, trans. Eike Schönfeld) Bernardo Kucinski, K. (Portuguese, trans. Sarita Brandt) Dany Laferrière, L'énigme du retour (French, trans. Beate Thill) Madeleine Thien, Dogs at the Perimeter (English, trans. Almuth Carstens) 2015 NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names (English, trans. Miriam Mandelkow) Patrick Chamoiseau, L'empreinte à Crusoé (French, trans. Beate Thill) Daša Drndić, Sonnenschein (French, trans. Brigitte Döbert & Blanka Stipetić) Gilbert Gatore, Le Passé devant soi (French, trans. Katja Meintel) Amos Oz, Habesora al pi Jehuda (Hebrew, trans. Mirjam Pressler) Krisztina Tóth, Akvárium (Hungarian, trans. György Buda) 2016 Shumona Sinha, Assommons les pauvres! (French, trans. Lena Müller) 2017 Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Tram 83 (trans. from French by Katharina Meyer and Lena Müller) 2018 Ivana Sajko, Liebesroman (trans. by Alida Bremer) 2019 Fernanda Melchor, Temporada de huracanes (trans. from Spanish