Inaugural winners announced for PEN Presents x International Booker Prize

English PEN and the Booker Prize Foundation are delighted to announce the winners of the inaugural round of PEN Presents x International Booker Prize – an edition of the English PEN award for sample translations, launched in partnership with the Booker Prize Foundation to support translators from the Global Majority.

The six winning projects include:

Sample translations of six titles representing five languages and five regions
The first PEN Presents winners showcasing work originally published in Malay, Filipino and Cebuano, and the first from the Philippines
Previous PEN Presents winner and International Booker Prize-longlisted translator Tiffany Tsao, along with five translators selected for the programme for the first time
Translation samples that are ‘stunningly different in voice and style and theme, and stunningly alike in their brilliance’.