Man Booker International Prize: Eligible Books 2017

In the Goodreads tradition of the annual Booker eligible lists, this is a list of prospects for the new-style Man Booker International Prize.
(N.B. this list has no official connection with, or bearing on, the prize.)

The award is for a single work of fiction, translated into English and published in the UK.
Both novels and short story collections are eligible for the International Prize.

2017 Judges: Nick Barley (Chair), Daniel Hahn, Helen Mort, Elif Shafak, Chika Unigwe.

Other years:
Man Booker International Prize Eligible Books 2018
Man Booker International Prize Eligible Books 2016

A PDF of the prize rules is here.

If adding a title to this list, please bear in mind:
- Author and translator must be living at the time of the prize.
- The book must have its first UK publication between 1 May 2016 and 30 April 2017.
- No retranslations, or reprints of translations previously published in Britain.
- Publisher must have its "principal place of business in the UK" and have a UK ISBN. (The translation may have been released earlier in other English-speaking countries, but never previously issued by any British publisher. UK ISBN-10s - but also those issued in several other English-speaking countries - start with a 0 or 1.)

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message 1: by Antonomasia (last edited Feb 13, 2017 10:59AM) (new)

Antonomasia A lot of these comments below are notes to self, or for anyone who might take over adminning this list, about book eligibility and which publishers' catalogues have been checked.
If you're interested in an actual discussion thread about contenders, you may find more of interest here instead: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... (Feel free to join in!)


Publishers checked early January who had 2016 new book info available (sometimes whole year, some Jan-June):

And Other Stories
Atlantic (no new translated fiction May-June)
Bloomsbury
Canongate (no new translated fiction May-June)
Europa (catalogue available via .com not co.uk site, covers UK too)
Faber & Faber (no new translated fiction May-June)
Gallic Books
Glagoslav - nothing mar 2016, check again later
Haus Publishing
Hodder & subsidiaries (eg Sceptre, Orion)
Istros Books
Peirene Press
Penguin (Edelweiss catalogues)
Periscope
Picador Jan-June, none
Portobello/Granta
Pushkin Press
Random House Vintage Books catalogue
Scribe [not 100% sure if eligible under "principal place of business in the UK" rule, but included anyway]
Serpent's Tail/Tuskar Rock/Clerkenwell

N.B. (1) I keep these lists of publishers checked in case someone else needed to take over adminning these lists. It would be great if there were one or two people who were equally geeky about these things, similar to those who do the English language Booker lists. But most of them so far seem to be in the blogosphere not GR.
(2) I'm not adding series crime. But if it's eligible under all the rules and others have added it, it won't be removed.

Darf Publishers: 2016 releases not yet displayed, (checked end of Feb).


message 2: by Antonomasia (last edited Mar 21, 2016 10:46AM) (new)

Antonomasia Also, the last eligibility criterion in the new rules might be difficult to determine for people who haven't worked in publishing:
b) In determining whether the work is published in the UK by an imprint formally established in the
UK it must comply with the following:
i. The imprint sells its list in pounds sterling and where sold in print its books are distributed through national (UK) retail outlets, and
ii. The work is one which must be deposited with the British Library pursuant to the Legal Deposit Library Acts (2OO3 & 2O13) and any regulations relating to these Acts, and
iii. The imprint has its principal place of business in the UK and is subject to UK registration and regulation including the primary liability to pay tax in the UK on all of its trading activities
as a publisher, or
iv. That the work in question is one for which the publisher has been allocated a UK International Standard Book Number.

http://themanbookerprize.com/entering...
(That all important 'or'. Do publishers based abroad but selling translations to the UK, e.g. World Editions, Hispabooks, use UK ISBNs? Can one tell a UK ISBN by sight with knowledge - and can many people do this - or does it require a database?)


message 3: by Antonomasia (last edited Jul 23, 2016 05:53PM) (new)

Antonomasia Notes July 2016.

not eligible: Small Stations Press (based in Sofia, Bulgaria):
One Million Cows - has Bulgarian ISBN10: http://www.isbntools.com/details.html

Crystal Wedding has been deleted from the list because it was published in March 2016 (and would have been eligible for the 2016 MBI; it won an English PEN award & was longlisted for FT Emerging Voices award). A book likely to be of interest to the readers browsing this list, but just not eligible for 2017 MBI.

Further Maclehose titles without publication dates as yet, but mentioned in their current catalogue with no details beyond author & title:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... (June 2017)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Catalogues checked
Tilted Axis 11/7
Serpent's Tail 13/7
Pushkin 13/7
Peirene 13/7 (none new fitting criteria)
Istros 13/7
Periscope 13/7 (none new fitting criteria)
Oneworld 13/7
And Other Stories 13/7
Maclehose Press 14/7
Gallic Books 14/7
Scribe UK 14/7 (none new)
Europa UK 14/7 (so much easier to search now!)
Haus 14/7 (none new - Jul-Dec catalogue not on yet)
Portobello/Granta 14/7 (proper catalogues now - yay!)
Canongate 14/7 (none new)
Bloomsbury 14/7
Glagoslav 14/7
Faber & Faber 14/7 (none new)
Saqi/Telegram 14/7
Dedalus 14/7 (none new)
Fitzcarraldo Editions 14/7 (none new)
Comma Press 14/7 (none new)
Hertfordshire Press 14/7 (none new, but seem to be slow to add new stuff - there are now several books from late 2015 listed that would have been eligible for 2016, but which weren't on there in Jan/Feb)
Peter Owen (none new)
Orenda 14/7 (included standalone thriller that had English PEN grant, but not books that are part of crime series - Blackout, sequel Rupture, Where Roses Never Die, Exiled)
PRH: Vintage, Penguin Press, Penguin General, Michael Joseph 14/7
Atlantic 14/7
Arcadia Books 23/07
HarperCollins UK (including 4th Estate) - still no 2016 catalogues on site


message 5: by Antonomasia (last edited Feb 19, 2017 12:59PM) (new)

Antonomasia Done Jan 2017:
And Other Stories
Atlantic
Faber
Serpent's Tail

mid Feb 2017:
Tilted Axis
Pushkin
Istros (some still to add for 2018 list)
Periscope
Gallic Books
Scribe UK
Haus (none new)
Europa UK
Nordisk - new publisher
HopeRoad - new publisher
Glagoslav
Dedalus
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Peter Owen
Hertfordshire (none new)
Comma Press (none new)
Saqi / Telegram
Orenda (didn't add any as all genre crime never seen on MBI list)
Canongate
Portobello/Granta
Maclehose
all PRH catalogues (some in Vintage, Penguin Press, Penguin General)
Fourth Estate & William Collins (none)
Pan Macmillan (one for next year's)
Scribner / S&S (one)
Hachette: Little, Brown; Headline;

Ineligible publisher not previously noted:
Milet - based in USA
blogs still covering lots from World Editions, Small Stations - both ineligible due to base abroad.


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