The end of International Booker season approaches, and we on the shadow panel have selected a winner from our shortlist. We had four out of six books in common with the official shortlist, but we’ve gone with something else. The 2026 shadow winner is… The Wax Child by Olga Ravn. tr. Martin Aitken (Viking) This was my favourite book on the longlist in terms of the writing. It’s also the second year in a row that we’ve chosen a Danish novel as the shadow winner. We are also giving an honourable mention to The Unremembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje, tr. David McKay (Scribe UK), which was a very close runner-up. Interesting, this is the other book that we don’t share with the official shortlist. That’s it for another year of shadowing. We are thinking of changing things up for next year, but that more on that another time…
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