Last modified on Thu 22 Apr 2021 12.01 EDT From Maria Stepanovaâs family memoir to a historical essay by Ãric Vuillard, this yearâs shortlist for the International Booker prize for translated fiction is highlighting works that âare really pushing the boundariesâ of fiction and nonfiction. The International Booker goes to âthe finest fiction from around the worldâ that has been translated into English. Six books are now in the running for the £50,000 award, which is split equally between author and translator, all of them displaying âan extraordinary amount of ingenuity and originalityâ, said chair of judges Lucy Hughes-Hallett. After reading 125 books to come up with their final six, the judges found they were swayed towards works that blurred the lines between fiction and nonfiction.