Tim Parks) 1995 Gert Hofmann, The Film Explainer (German, Michael Hofmann) 1996 to 2000 Prize in abeyance. 2001 Shortlist Marta Morazzoni, The Alphonse Courrier Affair (Italian, Emma Rose) Marc Dugain, The Officers' Ward (French, Howard Curtis) Michel Houellebecq, Atomised (also published as "The Elementary Particles") (French, Frank Wynne) Antonio Tabucchi, The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro (Italian, Patrick Creagh) May Telmissany, Dunyazard (French, Roger Allen) Hans-Ulrich Treichel, Lost (German, Carol Brown Janeaway) 2002 Shortlist W.G. Sebald (posthumously), Austerlitz (German, Anthea Bell) Agnès Desarthe, Five Photos of My Wife (French, Adriana Hunter) Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (French, Ina Rilke) Andrey Kurkov, Death and the Penguin (Russian, George Bird) Hanan al-Shaykh, Only in London (Arabic, Catherine Cobham) H.M. van den Brink, On the Water (Dutch, Paul Vincent) 2003 Shortlist Per Olov Enquist, The Visit of the Royal Physician (Swedish, Tiina Nunnally) Frédéric Beigbeder, £9.99 (French, Adriana Hunter) Peter Stephan Jungk, The Snowflake Constant (German, Michael Hofmann) Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat (Spanish, Edith Grossman) José Saramago, The Cave (Portuguese, Margaret Jull Costa) José Carlos Somoza, The Athenian Murders (Spanish, Sonia Soto) Also longlisted Umberto Eco, Baudolino (Italian, William Weaver) Jens Christian Grøndahl, Lucca (Danish, Anne Born) Norbert Gstrein, The English Years (German, Anthea Bell) Milton Hatoum, The Brothers (Portuguese, John Gledson) Michel Houellebecq, Platform (French, Frank Wynne) Milan Kundera, Ignorance (French, Linda Asher) Amin Maalouf, Balthasar's Odyssey (French, Barbara Bray) Patricia Melo, Inferno (Portuguese, Clifford E Landers) Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Nautical Chart (Spanish, Margaret Sayers Peden) Atiq Rahimi, Earth And Ashes (Dari/Afghanistan, Erdağ Göknar) 2004 Shortlist Javier Cercas, Soldiers of Salamis (Spanish, Anne McLean) Juan Marsé, Lizard Tails (Spanish, Nick Caistor) Elke Schmitter, Mrs Sartoris (German, Carol Brown Janeway) Ricardo Piglia, Money to Burn (Spanish, Amanda Hopkinson) Luther Blissett, Q (Italian, Shaun Whiteside) Mahi Binebine, Welcome to Paradise (French, Lulu Norman) Also longlisted Lars Saabye Christensen, The Half Brother (translated by Kenneth Stevens) Gil Courtemanche, A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali (translated by Patricia Claxton) Turki Al-Hamad, Adama (translated by Robin Bray) Javier Marias, Dark Back Of Time (translated by Esther Allen) Sten Nadolny, The Discovery Of Slowness (translated by Ralph Freedman) Per Petterson, In The Wake (translated by Anne Born) Shan Sa, The Girl Who Played Go (translated by Adriana Hunter) Fred Vargas, Have Mercy On Us All (translated by David Bellos) Ye Zhaoyan, Nanjing 1937 (translated by Michael Berry) Akira Yoshimura, One